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Incredibly, banks’ wishes have come true in the very first week of 2013 ! Should we rejoice ? Well, not really, because one of the main dispositions of Basel III, where prudential norms of the world banking sector are being discussed, has been emptied of its substance. The crisis of 2008 has show...

The answer to our actual crisis goes through a return to « sound » money. Not necessarily a gold standard, which would be too brutal, but at least we should let gold circulate as real money alongside the fiat currencies

Prices have dropped in the days following the QE4 announcement, and there is normally no more positive news for the precious metals than the announcement of massive money printing.

The aim of this article is to explain the differences between investment solutions offering direct ownership (allocated) and mutualized (non-allocated) ownership of physical gold.

The Fed has decided, last week, to extend its quantitative easing (QE) policy. The US central bank is back with pure monetary creation

Although gold (and silver) didn’t go up in the last couple of days, it is absolutely guaranteed that the continued destruction of paper money will lead to substantially higher prices in the precious metals

The fundamental and technical picture could not be better for gold and silver. Most governments’ deficits are escalating at a fast rate. Money printing worldwide is likely to accelerate rapidly and could reach exponential rises in the next 1-3 years.

We won’t be cruel by reminding you that François Hollande, recently, and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, last spring, had declared the Eurozone crisis « over »... All the different bailout plans are only fragile undertakings, and the smallest shock can bring them down, as we know and are witnessing...

The case for gold as the ultimate wealth preservation investment is irrefutable. Whilst paper money and all assets that were financed by the credit bubble will collapse in real terms, gold will continue to represent stable purchasing power as it has done during 5,000 years.

he bank’s board of directors just published a document asking the shareholders (the governments of France, Belgium and Luxembourg) to subscribe to an increase in capital of 5.5Billion euros

The prices of gold and silver have dropped severely, November 28th 2012. Such a huge drop in less than a minute, only one day after options have expired, is quite hard to explain in a so-called free market in which no one is interfering.

Egon von Greyerz said that it's not the gold price that is going up, but rather the fiat currencies that are constantly losing their purchasing power

The CME announced today a case of "force majeure" regarding one of its physical gold storage facilities, managed for the COMEX, located in the southern part of New York City, in an area that was inundated during the storm known as Sandy.

Turkey has admitted that the increase in its gold exportations is related in reality to the payment of gas imported from Iran.

Moody’s has decided on Monday night to downgrade France’s AAA rating. A French debt crisis would jeopardize all of the Eurozone

The Monnaie de Paris (the French Mint) has just issued a new 75-gram gold coin for a sales price of 5,000 euros, or 66.6 euros a gram.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, has suggested to the International Monetary Fund to replace the dollar by gold when lending to troubled countries.

Silver and gold were the best assets to own during President Obama’s tenure, according to a chart by economist Jim Reid at Deutsche Bank.

Egon von Greyerz think we are going to see a turn in the world economic situation. Gold is the only way to preserve your wealth and your purchasing power

Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke stand behind this policy of monetizing the public debt. Money printing contributes to the devaluation of the dollar and this is bullish for gold