Kwiwatch: Hang on who has gone to jail for these crimes? Anyone? Does anyone think it odd that Goldman Sachs can pay $5 BILLION in fines and not be seen as a criminal organisation? These fines are on top of the other billions in fines already paid. But wait. Where is this money coming from?…

Kiwiwatch: Doug Casey is a highly respected commentator and sought after speaker, if not controversial for calling ‘a spade a spade’. Good article and video if you want to go further To define the likely differences between the coming depression and the last one, it’s helpful to compare the situation today to that in the early 1930s….

Kiwiwatch: We have put a number of gold related articles up previously but we have no idea whether any of the commentaries will become reality. Here is Jim Rickards talking in a 34min interview about what he thinks will be a new financial system, including a revaluation of gold. Here it is.

Kiwiwatch comments: It’s with a great deal of sadness that I report in this way BUT it has actually been the same since 2088 when QE, ZIRP, NIRP and whatever else you might call it has been the norm in ‘markets’. I loved it as a financial adviser when you could analyse investments based on…

A new video from Mike Maloney that explains a technical relationship in simple terms  

Japan’s Problems With Debt and Depression Just Got a Lot Worse Jim Rickards reports: Japan has been in a depression for almost 30 years, with deflation and several technical recessions along the way. Its sovereign debt burden is over 200% of GDP (more than double that of the U.S. and higher than Greece!). Negative interest…

Guess Who’s Buying the Most Gold in the World? Our Friend Putin! Jim Rickards reports: The story about Chinese gold buying is well-known. What is not so well-known is that Russia has been on just as much of a gold-buying spree as China. In fact, official figures show that Russia bought over 11 tons of…

This article is reproduced from Zero Hedge and is also about the Panama Papers An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders and 128 more politicians and public officials around the world. …

Source: Süddeutsche.de

Once again Jim Rickards exposes what is reality and what is fiction in this interview. Really worth taking it all in. Jim Rickards’ book: The New Case for Gold.How the dollar is indeed a shadow gold currency?Breakdown of the world’s 35,000 tonnes of official above ground gold.Why Fort Knox should be audited and why t…