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The Bank of England released their quarterly inflation report yesterday. As expected, they reduced their growth forecasts – to 0% for the rest of 2012, down from 2%.They gave no hint of further...

Despite claims from various eurocrats that Greece will not leave the eurozone it is growing increasingly likely by the day. For those concerned with gold investment many are asking what will happen to...

The markets were once again quiet yesterday as they were waiting for news from the ECB of further intervention in the eurozone crisis. Gold was also waiting in anticipation as it traded sideways for...

Yesterday Bernanke, in a pre-recorded speech to a conference in Cambridge, MA, extolled the virtues of happiness economics. Let’s be honest, there was little point in him singing the praises of...

Bickering and interfering continued across Euro countries yesterday as smug French President Francois Hollande purportedly pushed for Italy to accept a bailout. We wonder how he’ll react when...

Last week, the markets were disappointed by both the Fed’s and ECB’s lack of action. Bernanke stated that the Fed stood by to take further action if necessary. This is expected prior to...

“…as soon as he explained that his plan to promise a plan which plans to promise a solution was nothing but another promise and not an actual plan, everything reversed.” - Zerohedge...

So, the highlight of yesterday? No, not Bernanke’s press conference… Team GB winning their first batch of gold medals! It might seem as though there are more important things at the...

Back in April we wrote about Vietnam and gold investment, a brief look at the Vietnamese government’s attempts to "stabilize" the economy through a series of restrictions on the gold market....

Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,622.75 GBP 1,034.46 and EUR 1,323.29. Gold finished at USD 1,615.40 in New York, down -0.43% having reached highs of USD 1,629. The gold price stayed relatively...

This Friday we bring you another article from Mandy Lindner, The Real Asset Company’s summer intern. This week Mandy has written a potted history of Germany’s monetary system since the...

The LIBOR scandal rolls on in the U.K., eagerly observed by the rest of the world. This scandal has reached mammoth proportions and has become deeply political with politicians past and present...

We’ve been big fans of the author and academic, Nasim Nicholas Taleb, for some time. We have enjoyed his best-selling book, ‘The Black Swan’, his media appearances and have used his...

As the Eurozone crisis rumbles on, investors’ attention is split across a range of European issues; an apparently imminent ‘Grexit’ (possibly the ugliest wordmash we’ve ever...

Last April, gold-investment analysts where excited to see a new institutional player enter the gold market. The University of Texas Investment Management Co. took delivery of nearly $1billion of gold...