Gold, Silver, & other Metals
Gold “Terrifies” the International Monetary System
by Wolf Richter • • 16 Comments
What the Swiss Gold Referendum Means for Central Banks
by GoldBroker.com • • 13 Comments
The Calm Before the Storm in the Gold Market
by GoldBroker.com • • 22 Comments
What Happened to the Price of a Gallon of Gas?
by Johnnygeneric • • 9 Comments
The Very Brief Phenomenon Of The Gold Standard
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Dollar Destruction And Gold Over 47 Years – A Personal Story
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By Midyear, Europe ‘Can No Longer Live With This Euro’
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on By Midyear, Europe ‘Can No Longer Live With This Euro’
“I’m sitting on cash,” Felix Zulauf said when he was asked in an interview where he was putting his money. With decades of asset management experience under his belt, he’d founded Zulauf Asset Management in Switzerland in 1990. But now he was worried—and has turned negative on just about everything.
Gold, Molotov Cocktails, Rubber Bullets, And Teargas: A Rift In Greece
by Wolf Richter • • 2 Comments
A Greek economist’s terse sarcasm: “GDP has decreased by €47 billion in the last five years. Economy is expected to contract by 3.8% in 2013, the 6th straight year of recession! Unemployment has reached 24.7%. Youth unemployment… 55.4%! No worries though—we have the sun, the sea, our cultural background.” And GOLD.
The Japanese Are Dumping Their Gold
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on The Japanese Are Dumping Their Gold
In Japan, people who are old enough to have lived it as adults still reminisce about the bubble that blew up in 1989 when the Nikkei almost hit 40,000 (now 9,045) and when the sky-high prices of real estate could only go up further. The slide from top to reality has been brutal, and a lot of people lost their shirts. But there has been one investment that has worked out phenomenally well for the otherwise hapless Japanese investor: Gold.