The title to an AP article on yahoo.com’s finance page tells it all: World’s central banks act to ease market strains, Central banks take action to provide cheaper dollar liquidity to financial system. Read the article if you want, but title really does tell it all. This is not a novel “solution” to the world’s
The Establishment disses gold while central banks, icons of the Establishment, load up big. The third quarter saw the most central bank buying for a single quarter in forty years, and this year is on pace to see the most central bank gold buying since the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971.
If you’ve watched the news for any length of time you’ve probably heard mention of speculators and how they seem to be responsible for much of what ills us. Last week, Japan’s Finance Minister Jun Azumi said that a massive intervention in the Yen market was necessary as there were signs of speculation. Much of the price inflation in commodities over the last decade has been…
Various reports coming out of last week’s G20 meeting in Cannes are suggesting that some member countries had proposed Germany use its gold reserves as collateral for a Eurozone bailout fund. This brought a series of quick and unequivocal responses: