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According to Bild, around 1,600 tonnes of Germany's gold reserves are now in the country, a figure set to rise to 1,700 tonnes by 2020.

We will see in-flation, stag-flation, hyperinflation and de-flation. Many of these flations will happen simultaneously.

Here's the gold version of the Manipulation Timeline.

Here's the silver version of the Manipulation Timeline.

The United States Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points and signaled more of the same to come in 2017-2019. What does it all mean to the gold investor?

A cache of documents from Deutsche Bank AG include what a group of silver investors claim is a “smoking gun”: private electronic chats showing traders from numerous banks conspiring to rig prices from 2007 to 2013, according to a court filing in New York last week. The bank provided the documents...

With a very limited downside and an upside of many thousand dollars, at current levels of $1,175 physical gold is an absolute bargain.

Traders and submitters were captured coordinating trades in advance of a daily phone call, manipulating the spot market for silver, conspiring to fix the spread on silver offered to customers and using illegal strategies to rig prices.

The next Federal Reserve policy meeting is not until December 14. Nonetheless, the US 3-Month Treasury Bill market is already pricing in a hike to the key interbank lending rate. Why is this important for precious metals investors? Because it was the first Fed Rate hike in nearly a decade last De...

Few people realise the coming bargains in all asset markets within the next five years or so. Stocks, bonds and property will be fractions of current prices.

No change to China's gold reserves for November

The result of the constitutional referendum in Italy held last Sunday, December 4th, is undisputable, 60% voting “no”, and there was a large participation.

Gold is acceptable for the first time as an investment in Islamic finance after the group that sets standards for the industry adopted Shariah-compliant rules for trading the metal. The rules approved Nov. 19 allow gold to be used in the $1.88 trillion Islamic finance business, the Accounting and...

Deutsche Bank AG has agreed to pay $60 million to settle private U.S. antitrust litigation by traders and other investors who accused the German bank of conspiring to manipulate gold prices at their expense. The preliminary settlement was filed on Friday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan,...

Nothing could have reinforced the lack of confidence in the banking system more and persuaded the ‘black’ financial system to remain than the chaos in which the removal of the 500 and 1000 rupee notes was done. It confirms gold as the foundation of the ‘black money’ system in India, hidden from offi...

Very few people realise the enormous wealth transfer that will take place in the next 5 years. Most will lose 75-90% of their wealth and some 100%. What is interesting is that investors needn’t lose most of their money if they took a few measures to protect their fortune.