Should we believe the officially reported world Central Bank gold reserve holdings we see published?  To follow is a few reasons why we possibly should not… The old Cold War USA-USSR nuclear arms race has been replaced by the East-West Central Bank battle to accumulate physical gold and physical silver reserves. While Western Central Banks and their...

Here’s an account of the history of paper money and central banks over the last 3 centuries.  Learn how China may well be repeating it’s past but how this time it’s likely to affect the world, not merely a Chinese Dynasty as it did in the past.  As usual Darryl Schoon shares a number of interesting historical facts that were new to us...

Jun 22, 2011

Much of the talk, both mainstream and “underground” on the internet is currently centred on what the next “black swan” will be.  Will it be a Greece default? More middle eastern riots and government overthrows? A break up of the Euro-zone, or the (comical) US debt ceiling not being raised, that causes gold to lurch higher?  (Truth be told these...

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams (1735-1826), American President America’s founding fathers would not be surprised at the dire state of...

By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research Does the price action of gold of late make you scratch your head, falling as it has from its recent high of $1,420 to $1,359 as I write? Hard not to make one wonder, considering the nature of so much recent breaking news… Consumer prices in December exceeded forecasts, up 0.5%, with core inflation up...