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The most expensive investment anyone can buy today is paper gold. For $1,260, an investor will get a piece of paper saying he owns 1 ounce of gold. But he is unlikely to ever see that gold. Firstly, m...

Egon von Greyerz / May 18, 2017

Time and time again, we are seeing fraud taking place in the precious metals market. Thousands of tonnes of paper, silver, and gold are being dumped over just a few hours or days. For anyone who doesn...

Egon von Greyerz / May 12, 2017

“This is the new normal”! That is what a professional advisor stated at a recent family office conference in London after I had outlined the global risks due to the credit and asset bubbles. This is w...

Egon von Greyerz / May 4, 2017

To ride a bull market is like climbing a wall of worry. Most of the time, the market seems to be consolidating or correcting. The bull market in gold fits that picture perfectly. It started in 1999 at...

Egon von Greyerz / April 28, 2017

How can ordinary people ever understand the importance of gold when they are continuously fed with false and distorted facts? The latest publication to publish false and ignorant propaganda on gold is...

Egon von Greyerz / April 22, 2017

As we approach the beginning of the greatest wealth destruction in history, it is an absolute certainty that no one will escape the suffering that will be brought upon the world. The ones who will suf...

Egon von Greyerz / April 7, 2017

The US owes the world 453,000 tonnes of gold which is almost 3 times all the gold ever produced in history. Whilst market observers worry about what the Fed will do next or the health bill, nobody see...

Egon von Greyerz / March 30, 2017

In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March was the same as March 15th in today’s calendar. This date was not significant until Julius Caesar was assassinated on 15 March 44BC. Shakespeare then coined th...

Egon von Greyerz / March 12, 2017

To own gold is not climbing a wall of worry. For anyone who understands the problems that the world is now facing, physical gold ownership gives peace of mind and the best insurance that money can buy...

Egon von Greyerz / March 3, 2017

Western Central Banks have a real knack for timing the sale of their gold reserves. They are absolute experts when it comes to picking the bottom of the gold market. Central banks in the UK, Switzerla...

Egon von Greyerz / February 24, 2017

Buy high and sell low, that is the mantra of many stock market investors. When a stock or a market reaches a new high, the average investor turns even more bullish. That is also the point when the med...

Egon von Greyerz / February 10, 2017

Investors in most countries make the mistake of measuring their returns based on their home market and their domestic currency. This might have worked when they only had access to their local investme...

Egon von Greyerz / February 2, 2017