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Why and Why Now is Germany Repatriating its Gold? »

Why and Why Now is Germany Repatriating its Gold?

Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, is moving its gold back home over the next seven years.  As the second largest owner of gold in the world, there will be 54,000 bars of The…

Mar 21 2013 / No Comment / Read More »
Gold News

Physical gold demand jumps 8% in a year according to the World Gold Council, whilst the price drops 5% – what gives? »

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This morning we mentioned that the World Gold Council released their Q1 gold demand numbers. You can read the…

May 16 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Another look at the FTSE gold price ratio »

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After the recent drop in gold and the rise in the FTSE (reaching its highest level in in 12…

May 16 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Gold price back below $1400 as China gold demand rises 20% and Indian retail investment rises 52% »

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Last week we warned that if the 200 week moving average didn’t hold then it would be a quick…

May 16 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Bank of England admits it might not hit its legally required 2% CPI target for more than 6 years »

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Today we got the Bank of England’s Quarterly Inflation Report where the BoE ‘forecasts’ what it expects to happen…

May 15 2013 / No Comment / Read More »
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UK unemployment may 2013

The UK’s unemployment rate hasn’t budged for 4 years now, as wage increases grow at slowest rate on record »

Whilst some bureaucratic pen-pusher in Whitehall might have been able to make the UK’s double-dip recession go away, he’s having a much harder time creating jobs and is absolutely failing…

May 15 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Construction activity falls for sixth successive month in the UK »

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After yesterday’s manufacturing report came out and showed that sector is still in contraction, we got the construction report today. And just…

May 2 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

UK manufacturing sector continues to contract as April sees third straight month of job losses for the sector »

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After some poor prints at the start of the year (see this) it’s understandable that we’d get a bounce. And that is…

May 2 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More »

Book review: David A. Stockman – “The Great Deformation – The Corruption of Capitalism in America” »

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David Stockman’s new book “The Great Deformation” is a brilliant, penetrating analysis of the present state of the US economy and the…

Apr 30 2013 / No Comment / Read More »
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Yet another gold mine plans to shutter in 2013 »

A common theme so far in 2013 seems to be the closure of gold mines caused mainly by the spiralling mining costs and a commodity price that has remained flat.…

Mar 14 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Is there a ‘perfect storm’ brewing in gold where central banks print like crazy and the gold supply dramatically drops? »

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Back at the start of August we published the words of Nick Holland, head of South African mine Gold Fields Ltd. He…

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Gold miners make bigger than expected write-downs on rising costs »

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Barrick Gold was out earlier today with its Q4 earnings results and they weren’t pretty. Via Bloomberg: Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s…

Feb 14 2013 / No Comment / Read More »

Modern day alchemy: Gold prospectors to grow gold in a petri dish? »

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A story in Nature, the international weekly journal of science, caught our eye today. It appears to be suggesting that a species…

Feb 5 2013 / No Comment / Read More »
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Interviews

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Detlev Schlichter on the gold price drop »

Detlev Schlichter, the author of Paper Money Collapse recently appeared as a guest on The Keiser Report. The entire interview as always is well worth a watch but it was…

May 17 2013 / No Comment / Read More »