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A common African gold currency is a way to effectively achieve monetary and thus economic independence. That being so, this article presents the nilar, a pan-African gold currency.

The bond issue risks complicating the liquidity of the US Treasury market.The risk is that they will lose their status as a reserve asset, which would create a systemic risk. The confidence in the value of US debt is at stake. In this perspective, the purchase of physical gold becomes very important...

The current crisis clearly marks the borderline between two qualities of assets: those that offer a capacity to store energy and therefore protect against its volatility (precious metals) and those that impose, on the contrary, a dependence on fluctuating costs and threaten to transform a simple inv...

In the context of a real estate bubble, economic slowdown and geopolitical conflicts, the Chinese central bank, more commonly known as the People's Bank of China, has just decided on a new rate cut. The Middle Kingdom is entering a new reality.

The history of money is several thousand years old. But do we know its evolution? How was it created? How does it work? Its influence? The questions that revolve around this social link are of little interest to the average person. Yet money structures our economic and political models.

Russia proposes a new international standard for trading in precious metals: the Moscow World Standard (MWS) which will become an alternative to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) which systematically manipulates precious metals markets to depress prices. According to Russia’s Finance Mini...

As with platinum, silver stocks available for delivery are accelerating their decline this week. This raid on COMEX precious metals stocks is also affecting gold. The rate at which stocks eligible for delivery are disappearing is accelerating.

After a three-week trial and more than eight days of deliberations, Michael Nowak and Gregg Smith were found guilty Wednesday by a federal jury, convicted in Chicago on charges they manipulated precious-metal markets for years.

The method of determining the price of gold is likely to change dramatically in the coming years. The importance of the physical metal is coming back to the forefront in the face of the imbalances created by the new geopolitical context and the difficulties linked to securing supplies.

We are witnessing a major change on the geopolitical chessboard. Inflation is currency devaluation. Did you protect your wealth with enough physical gold and silver?