Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Egon von Greyerz on Easing and Gold

Egon von Greyerz discusses Eurozone and US money printing and the resultant impacts on the gold market. Listen to the KWN interview here

Egon will be one of the speakers at the upcoming Gold Symposium in Sydney, Australia 22-23 October 2012. For the list of other speakers and Symposium details go here

South Africa frees first batch of miners

Sep 3, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

On Monday, dozens of detained South African miners were freed after murder charges against them were dropped.

The men were part of a group of 270 peoplearrested last month when police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine.

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Sep 3, 2012 by BrotherJohnF

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German court set to back emergency European bail out fund

Sep 3, 2012 by http://www.euronews.com/

German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, believes Germany's Constitutional Court will give the green light to the establishment of a permanent European bail out fund and back strong budgetary regulations in Europe.

South Africa strikes spread to gold mine

Sep 3, 2012 by
 
Workers at the world's fourth largest gold mine have gone on strike in South Africa. Some 12,000 miners in Johannesburg walked out in a dispute about pay and conditions. This comes weeks after 44 people were killed during protests at the Lonmin Platinum mine in the country's northwest. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from the Goldfields mine.

'Bailout Alcoholism: Govts sucked Eurozone resources dry'

Sep 3, 2012 by The European Union's poorest state - Bulgaria - has shelved plans to join the Eurozone.

Its Prime Minister cited the continent's deteriorating financial climate and fears for the euro's future as the reasons behind the single currency snub.

Patrick Young, of the investment consultancy DV Advisors, says joining the Euro now, would only end in disaster.