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The european banking system remains entirely dependant on the ECB for its daily operations, and this is not good news

Gold, silver, real estate or stocks ? It is difficult to determine what sort of investments one should go for. Sure, « past performances can’t vouch for future performances », but they can influence them, and analysing them may let us discern the large on-going trends

Egon von Greyerz stated that the Fed may increase QE a shocking ten times in coming years. He also provided a fantastic gold chart

Hold your nerve. The reality is that we have been moving for several years to an informal Gold Standard in which gold takes its place once again as a central store of value – a currency of sorts – in the mix of sovereign reserves.

Only one thing can explain the backwardation in gold : loss of confidence. Potential buyers of futures reckon there is a significant risk that the contract might not be fulfilled

The gold prices are again under pressure. Another attack without any fundamental logic is happening on the paper markets for gold and silver, markets that have become unreal and fictitious

Egon von Greyerz told that when it comes to markets, “... nothing is real.” He also believes we are seeing a sucker’s rally in stocks.

Away from the cameras, without invoking a « last chance summit », Ireland just benefited from a restructuration

Venezuelans have just been experimenting one of the risks associated with paper money. Actually, they just lost 46% of their purchasing power in a single day

Many large international banks, like Crédit Agricole, Commerzbank and UBS are announcing important losses for the last quarter of 2012

The correction in gold prices in December doesn’t seem to have scared China, since it imported a record amount of physical gold in that month.

The delivery requests from the COMEX for the month of February are reaching the astronomical amount of 43,26 tons of physical gold, or 1,391,000 ounces of gold to deliver.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has forbidden Egan Jones to publish its rating notes on States for 18 months (SEC’s announcement), a stupefying decision

So, how do you hold gold ? In a mutualized account ? Do you really have access to your gold ? Can you touch it ? Do you know the exact serial number of your ingots ?

A currency system must be based on an indisputable money base that doesn’t bear the mark of one country. There is only one standard that meets those criteria and that must be gold.

In Switzerland, four members of the Parliament started the « Swiss Gold Initiative » in March of 2012. This movement demands the repatriation of the gold held by the Swiss National Bank

Japan just crossed another hurdle in its escape ahead by monetization of its debt in what can be called a show of strength by the new Prime Minister, Shinto Abe, against Japan’s central bank.

Some investors are disappointed as gold only went up 7% in USD in 2012. After having compounded at over 19% p.a. over 11 years, gold certainly should be allowed to just gain 7% without some people calling an end to the bull market.

There is very significant news that has barely made the headlines : Last week, the Fed has paid $89 Billion in benefits to the U.S. Treasury. It is 18% more than last year’s payment and it wipes out the $79 Billion 2010 record

Egon von Greyerz told that Swiss gold refiners have been overwhelmed with orders for physical gold and buyers are now experiencing major delays in deliveries.