New international financial standards take place on January 1st. Bullion banks are acquiring physical ahead of the change. Here’s Andrew with the details… by Chris Powell of The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: London metals trader Andrew Maguire was interviewed Thursday on Russia Today’s “Boom Bust” program by host Bart Chilton, former member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, discussing manipulation of the gold and silver markets. On the prog...

8:31p ET Sunday, December 16, 2018 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Swiss gold fund manager Egon von Greyerz, in commentary posted at King World News, calls attention to both the long-term and short-term collapse of the European bank stock index, which he construes as an indicator of the imminent crash of the European banking system and then a stock market crash. Von Greyerz's commentary is headlined "We Have Just Seen a Huge Warning that a Global Collapse Is about to Unfold" and it's posted at KWN...

Investors will be surprised to know the main factor that drives the gold price.  And no, it isn’t the oil price or market.  While the oil price has been a good indicator for the gold price over the past 50+ years, it hasn’t done much over the shorter term.  However, there is a gold market demand factor that seems to move the gold price more than any other indicator.In my newest video update, GOLD INVESTING: What Really Drives The Market Price, I discuss how different aspects of the gold and broa...

Nearly everyone was a dollar bear in early 2018, but now everyone is a dollar bull? Is the dollar about to strengthen? Or breakdown? Here’s some insight… by Kevin Muir of Macro Tourist Think back to this past summer. The US dollar was rallying hard, having risen from 88 DXY in the spring to 97 as August drew to a close. At the same time, the American stock market was on fire, tacking on 400 S&P points in less than half a year. This was happening while the rest of the world’s stock markets w...

7:52p ET Sunday, December 16, 2018 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Voice of America has produced a wonderful short video by reporter Natasha Mozgovaya about life in Nome, Alaska, which is still full of gold prospectors more than a century after the great Klondike Gold Rush. "Once you see gold under water," one of the prospectors says, "the whole world changes." The report is just a bit more than three minutes long and can be viewed at the VOA internet site here: https://www.voanews.com/a/nome...

By Ritesh JainThe Times of India, MumbaiSunday, December 16, 2018 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/its-the-liquidi... Nedbank strategists Mehul and Neels write some exciting stuff and, like me, they don't confuse fundamentals with liquidity. They write in a strategy note: There is a strong relationship between the change in global dollar liquidity (M1) and the performance of the global stock market -- a correlation of 76 percent. ... Dispatch continues below ... ADVERTISE...

By Ambrose Evans-PritchardThe Telegraph, LondonSunday, December 16, 2018 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/12/16/bis-fears-financial-seiz... The pillars of the global financial system are fundamentally unstable and could lead to a frightening chain-reaction in the next crisis, the world's top watchdog has warned. Giant "central counterparties" (CCPs) that clear much of the $540 trillion (L428 trillion) nexus of derivatives are themselves vulnerable to failure in times of extreme stress. ...

Deep state criminals are being investigated, arrested, and sentenced to prison. As SGTreport updates us, we learn the walls are closing in on the Clintons… Corey Lynn interviewed by Sean on SGTreport The walls are closing in on the Clintons, and that’s not “fake news”, it’s a fact. Corey Lynn from CoreysDigs.com joins me to discuss the swamp in Arkansas, home of the Clinton crime family – and many deep state criminals who are being investigated, arrested and sentenced to prison terms. If you wan...

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies just warned King World News that we have just seen a huge warning that a global collapse is about to unfold. Unprecedented Risks And The Wisdom Of PlatoDecember 16 (King World News) – Egon von Greyerz:  “As we approach the beginning of the biggest wealth destruction in history, it is timely to turn to the wisdom of one of the great philosophers. Plato (4...

The paper gold market is a casino that has nothing to do with the real price of gold. How do we get to the real price of gold? Here’s Egon to explain… by Egon von Greyerz of Gold Switzerland We are now in the very final stages of the most remarkable era of alchemy in the history of finance. This cycle started in 1913 with the creation of the Fed and had its death knell in 1971 when Nixon took away the gold backing of the dollar. It has been a long and slow 50 year death of the world economy and ...