"Gold will be around, gold will be money when the dollar and the euro and the yuan and the ringgit are mere memories."
Richard Russell
"'We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market,' says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. 'They were totally opposed to it,' Born says. 'That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?'"
PBS Frontine, The Warning
"Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort."
Antony C. Sutton
"Gold in US dollars is 25.7 % away from its all time high.
Gold in renminbi is 13.8 % away from its all time high.
Gold in euros is 3.2 % away from its all time high.
In many other (major) currencies gold is at an all time high."
Jan Nieuwenhuijs, the artist formerly known as Koos Jansen
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception