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CFTC (US regulator) considering an inquiry into London's gold and silver markets to check if prices are open to manipulation

When the Dow Jones hit 14,000 pts, it reached its historic record of 2007. A remarkable comeback after its low of 6,500 pts of 2009. So, then, the crisis is over?

A great amount of money is being created by the central banks (FED, BCE, BoJ) but, for now, we’re not seeing a strong inflation

There are storage companies in many countries. Outside of Switzerland the most popular locations are in Hong Kong and Singapore.

The european banking system remains entirely dependant on the ECB for its daily operations, and this is not good news

Gold, silver, real estate or stocks ? It is difficult to determine what sort of investments one should go for. Sure, « past performances can’t vouch for future performances », but they can influence them, and analysing them may let us discern the large on-going trends

Egon von Greyerz stated that the Fed may increase QE a shocking ten times in coming years. He also provided a fantastic gold chart

Hold your nerve. The reality is that we have been moving for several years to an informal Gold Standard in which gold takes its place once again as a central store of value – a currency of sorts – in the mix of sovereign reserves.

Only one thing can explain the backwardation in gold : loss of confidence. Potential buyers of futures reckon there is a significant risk that the contract might not be fulfilled

The gold prices are again under pressure. Another attack without any fundamental logic is happening on the paper markets for gold and silver, markets that have become unreal and fictitious

Egon von Greyerz told that when it comes to markets, “... nothing is real.” He also believes we are seeing a sucker’s rally in stocks.

Away from the cameras, without invoking a « last chance summit », Ireland just benefited from a restructuration

Venezuelans have just been experimenting one of the risks associated with paper money. Actually, they just lost 46% of their purchasing power in a single day

Many large international banks, like Crédit Agricole, Commerzbank and UBS are announcing important losses for the last quarter of 2012

The correction in gold prices in December doesn’t seem to have scared China, since it imported a record amount of physical gold in that month.

The delivery requests from the COMEX for the month of February are reaching the astronomical amount of 43,26 tons of physical gold, or 1,391,000 ounces of gold to deliver.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has forbidden Egan Jones to publish its rating notes on States for 18 months (SEC’s announcement), a stupefying decision

So, how do you hold gold ? In a mutualized account ? Do you really have access to your gold ? Can you touch it ? Do you know the exact serial number of your ingots ?

A currency system must be based on an indisputable money base that doesn’t bear the mark of one country. There is only one standard that meets those criteria and that must be gold.

In Switzerland, four members of the Parliament started the « Swiss Gold Initiative » in March of 2012. This movement demands the repatriation of the gold held by the Swiss National Bank