The price of gold has jumped more than $100/oz so far this year. Despite an attempt to knock the price of gold down when someone dropped $1.2bn of gold futures into the market late last week gold has continued to strengthen. Is this a sea-change for financial markets?

Reproduced here is a sequence of short videos explaining major issues  facing markets including the gold market.  They are easy to understand and follow, apart from perhaps the first 3 minutes of Video 1!!