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It seems that it is not the death of gold and silver as money that will happen, but rather the death of fiat money. For more than 2,000 years, gold and silver have been used as money under different forms and have outlived any other form of currency.

One of the main arguments used by your banker to dissuade you from buying gold is that “it’s not generating anything”, either interest or dividends. It has been true, in a way, for some time. But, now that interest rates are at their lowest and that savings accounts and life insurance policies pract...

It is interesting to see gold rising while the global sharemarkets decline.   We can measure these moves with the Dow/Gold Ratio. Looking at the short term we see a trend reversal with a breaking of the wedge formation.         Looking at t...

With the price oscillator a move above 10 will see the gold price above 1400 & be a major buy signal.

The gold miners’ good performance in 2014 bodes well for gold not having to worry about a bear market taking place, like in 2013, or about testing again its major $1,178 bottom.

Exclusive interview with Julian D. W. Phillips about gold, geopolitics & the big reset. Goldbroker.com has started to produce video interview about the #gold market, watch the first one here

Beyond Deutsche Bank, we must understand that the large banks of the world are holding inordinate amounts of derivatives, beside which their own funds are ridiculously low. And this constitutes an endemic risk that is largely underestimated by the shareholders, as well as the depositors.

Shanghai Gold Exchange - Gold Premiums - Yuan/Gram. Charts by Nick Laird.

Shanghai Gold Exchange - Gold deliveries since December 2008

There are many events to be analysed for these last few weeks. As happens every year, this time of year is, once again, quite fertile. These events, whether geopolitical, economic, financial or historical, all exert influence, more or less on the long term, on the precious metals markets.

Two charts which show the appreciation in value of gold the last 40 years.    

With virtually empty gold vaults, the central banks and bullion banks are now becoming desperate.

Scatterplot charts showing the relationship between the Dow Industrials Index & Gold for the last 200 years.

To understand the price of gold, the relevant supply is the total supply, not the new supply coming to market during the last year, week or month.

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...

The total topped 100 million ounces in late 2012 & over the sell-off in the gold price fell to a low just under 70 million ounces (30% decline)

The American bank Citigroup has just been condemned by the Department of Justice to pay a fine of $7billion for its role in the subprime crisis.

United States is one of the most important players in the gold market. It is, in my opinion, the most anti-gold country of all the major five players.

Silver COT positions are still increasing whilst gold's COTs are slowing.

Banks have not really taken preventive measures against sudden changes in their environment, and that their gross underestimation of risk puts them in a fragile position, should anything unexpected happen