Warwick University

• No Need for Gold Standard 'Until Money Collapses'

  By Ben Traynor  |  July 3, 2012

  Spot market gold prices traded close to $1,610 an ounce for most of Tuesday morning in London, after breaking through the $1,600 mark during the earlier Asian session. Silver prices touched $28 an ounce for the first time in nearly two weeks.

• A New Gold Standard? It's...Academic

  By Jon Nadler  |  August 24, 2011

  Gold prices fell by the most in a year and a half as the quest for safe-haven turned into a quest for securing profits and being the first one out from an apparently extremely overbought market.