The Gold Cartel ― Government Intervention on Gold, the Mega Bubble in Paper, and What This Means for Your Future

In times of financial crisis, investors have frequently looked to gold as a safe and stable investment, uncorrelated to financial market volatility. However, this is not necessarily the case. The Gold Cartel is an insightful and thought provoking analysis of the world market for gold, how it works, and what influences gold price. But it also lends insight into something more disturbing—the organized intervention in the gold markets by Central Banks.

Rumors of gold market intervention have existed for a few years now, but nothing substantive has ever been presented. This book will, for the first time, reveal how and why central banks control the price of gold and provide empirical evidence to support its claims. Along the way, readers will gain insight into how the gold markets work in reality, their development, and future prospects. The author will also reveal some of the darker aspects of the gold industry, including the politics and the motives behind the Central Banks' interventions and how intervention contributed to the debt crisis sweeping the world.

Dimitri Speck (Berlin, Germany) is a quantitative asset manager and trading system developer. He is responsible for two investment funds, a stock fund and a commodity fund, both of which have considerably outperformed the market since inception. Speck has specialized on patterns and the analysis of complex financial issues. He is the founder and editor of the website www.seasonalcharts.com, where for the first time accurate daily seasonal charts are illustrated. He is a well known expert on precious metals investment analysis, and he has been interviewed for a number of investment letters and websites and has spoken at industry events on the topic.