It seems that a bull fed on paper money has eternal life. Whatever the news is, stock markets worldwide react positively. It takes a long time to kill off a secular bull even if it has the wrong diet. Central banks have no policy This last week stock markets surged on the news more QE is l...

A junior employee in Deutsche Bank (DB) paid $6 billion to a hedge fund which was the gross value of a position. He should have paid the net. That in a nutshell shows the uncontrollable exposure of the banking system which will lead to its downfall.

In my most recent article, A Stock Market Collapse and Surge in Gold is Imminent, I discuss the excesses in the world and the effects that will have on the financial system and the stock market as well as on the gold and silver prices. Yes, some readers might find that a forecast of $10,000 gold...

What has happened in the last four years in the world economy has confirmed the importance of capital preservation. But for precious metals investors who came in nearer the top, it has clearly been a nerve racking time.

Very few people in the world understand that the last hundred years have been totally exceptional in world history. Most people never study history and therefore they believe that whatever happened in their and their parents’ lifetime is normal. An abnormal century But let me categorically sta...

Most people are blissfully ignorant of the fact that 2007-8 was just a mild rehearsal of what we soon are going to experience. The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9 will now transcend into the Great Financial Catastrophe

The world is now at tipping point and this coming autumn we are likely to see the beginning of what I in an 2009 article described as “The Dark Years Are Here”. We are not just going to experience another correction, giving investors yet a chance to buy the dips in a never ending bullma...

The proposal now being put to the Greek government and parliament is a lot worse than the one which was voted down by the Greek people last Sunday. This is really the bankrupt leading the bankrupt to perdition.

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about negative interest rates/wealth confiscation and the top three candidate bubbles.

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about capital controls in France, QE, gold and the economic and financial disasters wrought by central banks.

On January 15, the Euro lost 30% against the Swiss Franc and the Dollar lost 25% in a few seconds. Although this event was not major enough to shake the world it will be another nail in the coffin of the vulnerable financial system, as well as a sign of the exponential rise we will see in volatility and market failures during 2015.

On 30 November 2014 the Swiss People has the opportunity to determine not just the fate of their own financial system but also to be the catalyst for the return to sound money in the Western World.

With virtually empty gold vaults, the central banks and bullion banks are now becoming desperate. The action we are seeing in the paper gold market with the recent $50 takedown is yet more proof of the corner that the gold manipulators have put themselves into by having virtually no physical gold...

Max Keiser interviews Egon von Greyerz about Fed policy, dollar devaluation, gold price manipulation and wealth preservation.

The Fed was created by private bankers for the benefit of private bankers and today, 100 years later, they have been more successful than they could ever have imagined in 1913.

Egon von Greyerz discusses the demise of the dollar and other currencies as well as the coming 90% fall of stock markets versus gold

Egon von Greyerz about the coming failure of the gold paper market, the importance of owning physical gold as insurance against a failure of the financial system and to protect against counterparty risk.

The Euro which is a rubbish currency is up 8% against the dollar since July and over 65% since 2000. So even against another weak currency, the dollar is losing ground rapidly. And in real terms which of course is gold, the dollar has lost 98% since the creation of the Fed in 1913.

How can the Fed taper when the real US economy is in a terrible state. Add to that the massive problems in the Eurozone. And Japan, the world’s third largest economy, is a guaranteed basket case.

On the heels of Eric King’s interview with Andrew Maguire about JP Morgan’s manipulation of the gold market, Egon von Greyerz gives readers a snapshot of what to expect in the aftermath of such an extraordinary development.