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Chris Powell: Russia Conscripts Gold into Defense of the Ruble

By Chris Powell, GATA

The most dramatic development may have been the default of the London Metals Exchange’s nickel futures contract three weeks ago. The default was relevant to gold and silver futures contracts and all..

4 Scenarios for BIG Moves in Precious Metals Markets

By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals

World events are driving a volatile and potentially pivotal environment ahead for investors. Huge swings in financial markets are likely still to come.

Does China Have Enough Gold Reserves to Launch a Gold Standard?

By Jeff Clark, The Gold Advisor

Russia grabs a lot of headlines right now, but the leading candidate for realistically instituting a gold standard is China. Would China really do that? And do they have enough gold Reserves anyway?

Rising Inflation, The Taylor Rule, Rational Bubbles & The Fatal Flaw

By Daniel R. Amerman, CFA

We currently have deeply negative real interest rates - meaning that short-term interest rates are far below the current rate of inflation. The already high rate of inflation is almost certainly..

Looking Ahead to April

By Craig Hemke, TF Metals Report

The next FOMC meeting is not scheduled until May 3-4. This means that the month of April will continue to see volatility based upon geopolitics, real interest rates, and the..

Did Russia Intentionally Trigger A Monetary System Reset?

By Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock Journal

Fiat currency is a “promise” to repay a debt obligation and nothing more. A hard asset-backed currency is a guarantee that repayment will occur.

Another Stunning OCC Report

By Ted Butler, Butler Research

One of the most shocking features of the new report is that Bank of America is now within a whisker of becoming the largest US bank precious metals derivatives holder from, quite literally, holding zero precious metals derivatives positions as recently as two and a half years ago.

Russian Sanction Blowbacks Will Drive a Physical Gold Revaluation

By Kinesis Money

As the physical gold demand is getting off the scale, the London whistleblower investigates the Central Bank’s race to repatriate gold reserves.

The Big Bond Blowup: Worst Bust Since Marshall Plan

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

This past week was a stormy ride through the badlands of hell for bonds. Government bond prices took their worst cliff-fall since the Marshall Plan. The panic run of bonds over the edge was sparked by..

Technical Scoop: What was the great bond massacre of 1994?

By David Chapman, Enriched Investing

Who remembers the great bond massacre of 1994? Bond crashes are usually not at the top of the list for famous crashes. Stock market crashes, yes—1929, 1938, 1974, 1987, 2008..

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