Governments

The facts just don’t add up. US wages are falling, trade deficit is at 10 year high, debt is surging so are stocks and the US Government has again managed to publish a number of contradicting employme...

Egon von Greyerz / November 9, 2017

In the last 48 years, since 1969, an investor who put $1,000 into the Dow would today have $33,000. That is a gain of 3,200% or 7.6% annually. On the other hand, someone who put $1,000 into gold in 19...

Egon von Greyerz / October 27, 2017

For news to be read and understood by a great number of people, it must be simple, sensational and forgettable. Most individuals are not interested in “heavy” news or complicated issues. Just compare...

Egon von Greyerz / September 29, 2017

“America is now a dangerous nation.” This is the title of an article written by the journalist Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last week. He goes on to declare: “Under Donald Trump, America look...

Egon von Greyerz / August 24, 2017

Totally irresponsible policies by Governments and Central Banks have created the most dangerous situation that the world has ever experienced. Risk doesn’t arise quickly as the result of a single acti...

Egon von Greyerz / August 18, 2017

Fake money has created a totally uneven playing field for most ordinary people. Money used to represent a medium of exchange that would facilitate bartering. Instead of exchanging goods or services, p...

Egon von Greyerz / August 10, 2017

Over the last 150 years, the West has gone from human slavery to debt slavery. Slavery was officially outlawed in most countries between the mid 1800s and early 1900s. In the British Empire, it was ab...

Egon von Greyerz / August 4, 2017

The general public doesn’t like hearing what some of us who are Cassandras have to say. Because our message is does not fit in with the choir of propaganda and lies. We are predicting a future for the...

Egon von Greyerz / June 9, 2017

There are lies, damned lies and news To paraphrase British Prime Minister Disraeli who said: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Today, we are fed with lies ubiquitously in the form of news,...

Egon von Greyerz / April 13, 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