China has made a new most important strategic choice – Asian Regionalization. “In the past few years, both Chinese and foreign analysts began to reach the conclusion that China has developed a fairly consistent and coherent grand strategy...
Central Banks continued to buy gold for the 14th consecutive quarter in Q2 2014. CB’s purchased 118t in Q2 2014 up 28% over Q2 2013. The announcement of a fourth CBGA in the second quarter also reiterated that sales will not be forthcoming...
The Federal Reserve tried to fix the U.S. economy by Quantifornication - stimulus measures. Investors reacted to the Fed's unconventional efforts. Since the U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency and precious metals are priced in...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston says the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans, after being adjusted for inflation, grew on average by only $59 between 1966 and 2011, over the same period the average income of...
According to Bloomberg, whose calculations were based on Hong Kong customs data, net gold imports into China more than doubled in the first half of 2013 to 493 metric tons, up from roughly 239 tons over the same period in 2012.
There’s an interesting interview done by Geoff Candy over on mineweb.com. In the interview Geoff asks Gold Fields CEO, Nick Holland “What went wrong with the gold industry?” Holland’s reply is very informative.
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From the minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting April 30th - May 1st 2013…
"Many participants indicated that continued (job market) progress, more confidence in the outlook, or diminished downside risks would be required before slowing the...
There’s a three year downward trend in Chinese imports underway. The chart below, from Nomura Global Economics, shows the trend quite clearly.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
Illusions trick us into perceiving something different than what actually exists and the mainstream media is very good at creating them. Currently...