Over the past year and a half India’s finance minister, P. Chidambaram, has been fighting his country’s insatiable appetite for gold. on the theory that gold imports are creating a current account deficit and weakening the rupee. Consequently, Gold import duties have risen tenfold – from 1% at the start of 2012 to 10% today. The Excise Duties […]

Anyone who thinks that the US debt is the only problem had better starting looking around the globe. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on October 21st has made a desperate plea for extra cash to keep the institution afloat warning that the EU Commission would be technically bankrupt “by mid-November.” While the opening the European […]

QUESTION: “If the new reserve currency that will emerge will be electronic, and no gold standard is possible, why will governments confiscate gold? If the great deflation strikes after 2015.75 all assets can go down a lot in value, so is not good to hoard cash, common u$s bills at your home, or will cash […]

The Debt Ceiling Crisis has done far more damage than anyone suspects. It has drawn attention to the Sovereign Debt Crisis by highlighting the national debt and then the “Conservatives” are targeting the Republicans who voted to end the shutdown. While it may be admirable that someone is trying to address the debt crisis, shutting […]

We have been given several letters from readers all saying the same thing addressed to different firms around the country and all are dated October 8th through October 10th. This is very strange to be cancelling all international wires and preventing cash withdrawals. Nothing has yet surfaced from any other bank but we have our […]

QUESTION: Dear Mr.Armstong Reflecting on your thought written “Solutions” is the QE process partially accomplishing the thought of eliminating Public Debt and just print money for Government services. Federal debt of $17 trillion, of which $11 trillion is held by foreign nations. The remaining $6 trillion can be eliminated with QEs. If there is incentive […]

QUESTION: You mention the following comment recently. ”I am very concerned about are precious metals even going to be viable. Will this confiscation of wealth turn to those assets as well?”  Could you expand on this please. ANSWER: This is merely my personal observation. India has virtually stopped the buying of gold there driving it underground. Many are […]

QUESTION: Lately, the goldbugs have been complaining about large sales driving the price of gold down.  Can you comment about the validity of their arguments? Thank you. Sincerely, -RM ANSWER: Gold was on schedule to decline. Even the oscillators are still negative. The fundamentals are gathered from time to time and selected to fit the […]

The European Banking Crisis is getting much worse and the whole structure is crumbling to dust. The banks cannot save themselves. The entire crisis is all about the structural design of the Euro, which the politicians will not address. They failed to create a single national debt and in so doing, the banks then used […]

QUESTION: Why is it that the gold press now refuse to ever interview you? It really seems to show that what they say is totally untrustworthy when they refuse to interview anyone who disagrees with them. You are the only analyst who said gold would drop to $1,000 when it was at least $1,800. They […]