From Koos Jansen

Clients occasionally ask what is an ETF? Well this infographic answers some of the common questions:

Max and Stacy with their radio show "Truth About Markets", first aired 22 Feb 2014.

Note the sound and visuals are less than perfect on this video, might be best to use headphones.

From silver investor.com

From RT

Published on Feb 22, 2014

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the new game called the Hunger Gains. In a financialized zero sum world, Housing Gains plus Hunger Pains equals The Hunger Gains. This game is sponsored by China, however, and if they withdraw their sponsorship by dumping their trillion in US Treasuries, a new game called working may have to happen.

In the second half, Max interviews Alasdair MacLeod of Goldmoney.com about the redemption of emerging market currencies into the US dollar mirroring pre-WW1 bank runs, except on a global scale. With this ongoing global bank run happening, it is China that is buying up all the gold.

From SilverDoctors

From Boom Bust

Published on Feb 19, 2014

China has supplanted India as the number-one consumer of the world's gold, according to new numbers from the World Gold Council, even as the global supply of gold fell last year. Erin Ade reports.

Then, Erin sits down with George Selgin of the University of Georgia and the Cato Institute to discuss whether the inflexibility of the gold standard contributed to debt-deflation in the 1930's.

The famous Bretton Woods conference still has a huge impact on our global financial system, and has become shorthand for international monetary cooperation. Dr. Benn Steil, Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, does some myth-busting on the meeting.

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg’s Julie Hyman and Larry Shover of SFG Alternatives look at the gold market on today’s “Futures In Focus” on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop."

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- At the heart of the European debt crisis is the euro, the currency that ties together 18 countries in an intimate manner. So when one country teeters on the brink of financial collapse, the entire continent is at risk. How did such a flawed system come to be? Bloomberg Television and Jonathan Jarvis present "The European Debt Crisis Visualized."