Ray Dalio—founder of the world’s largest hedge fund—is sounding the alarm about the state of the global economy. In a blog post titled “The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken,” he argues that zero interest rates, low returns, and growing economic inequality are setting the world up for something bad.

Gold appears to be breaking out. Silver looks ready for its next big move. Dollar resuming its drop.

The long term view is very bullish. We're just getting started, even after moving up around 40% in the last 3 years.

Nearly 60% of the world's banks are likely to struggle in an economic downturn, McKinsey says.

SiIver preparing for a big move ? know it feels like it's been a long time coming, but with a bullish MACD cross back above zero, the odds have increased significantly...

Breakout before the end of the month or deeper pullback.

An article published by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), or Dutch Central Bank, has shocked many with its claim that "if the system collapses, the gold stock can serve as a basis to build it up again. Gold bolsters confidence in the stability of the central bank's balance sheet and creates a sense of security."

China has added more than 100 tons of gold to its reserves since it resumed buying in December, reinforcing its standing as one of the major official accumulators as central banks stock up on the precious metal.

Expect many, long, boring spells. During the early years of golds last big bull run in the early 2000's, there were many multi-month pullbacks and consolidations...

Unless something very dramatic happens on Monday, we are not going to get a reverse symmetry breakout. A pullback is much more likely.

China’s net monthly gold imports via Hong Kong in August surged nearly 61%, after falling to their lowest in more than eight years in July, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data showed on Thursday.

The level of government debt around the world has ballooned since the financial crisis, reaching levels never seen before during peacetime.

Two current and one former JPMorgan Chase & Co executives were charged over allegedly participating in market manipulation in the trade of precious metals including gold, silver, platinum and palladium between 2008 and 2016, the Department of Justice said on Monday.

The ECB said it would cut its key interest rate by 0.1 percentage point, to minus 0.5%, and buy €20 billion ($22 billion) a month of eurozone debt starting in November, relaunching a so-called quantitative easing program that it only phased out in December.

China has added almost 100 tons of gold to its reserves since it resumed buying in December, with the consistent run of accumulation coming amid a rally in prices and the drag of the trade war with Washington.

This year is highly likely to be a year of changes for the investment gold market in Russia: the Ministry of Finance will assess the feasibility of VAT exemption on investment gold, the State Duma will consider a bill to allow citizens to purchase precious metals in individual investment accounts, and the Central Bank will make changes to its pricing policy when conducting its market operations.

Russia’s gold reserves rose by 9 tons in July, increasing the value of the bullion holdings by 1.64% to a hefty $101.923 billion (€92 billion), as of August 1.

There’s a powerful constant amid the to-and-fro of the U.S.-China trade war as currency policy gets dragged into the standoff between the world’s two top economies: Beijing wants more gold in its reserves.

Gold demand was 1,123t in Q2, up 8% y-o-y. H1 demand jumped to a three-year high of 2,181.7t, largely due to record-breaking central bank purchases.

European central banks have decided not to extend a 20-year-old agreement to coordinate their gold sales, noting that they have no plans to sell large amounts of the metal.