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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—May 2023The May newsletter contains the top recent news in the markets, main currency market figures and the trader's comment.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—April 2023The April newsletter explores what is happening in the macro environment in the aftermath of the recent banking crisis.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—March 2023The March newsletter sheds light on gold's recent correction and volatility, and puts them into perspective.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—February 2023The February newsletter takes a look at the big picture for gold, market sentiments and stock call options.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—January 2023The January newsletter contains the top recent news in the markets, main currency market figures and the trader's comment.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Market Commentary—December 2022December's market commentary takes a look at how inflation crises can turn into currency crises, why central banks are buying gold and what it means, as well as what is gold's outlook in 2023.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—December 2022A topical newsletter that discusses the US dollar, the 10Y2Y spread and Ghana's plans to buy oil with gold.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—November 2022A topical newsletter that discusses why the Japanese Yen has been the weakest major currency as well as central bankers, stock markets and gold.
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Sam Laakso
Voima Markets Newsletter—October 2022A topical newsletter that discusses, among other things, how the strengthened dollar has affected other currencies and asset classes and how gold's price will likely develop during the next 18 months.
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Press releases
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Voima
Norman Day appointed as Voima’s new Board MemberIntroducing a new Board Member: Norman Day.
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Voima to release audit reports by Bureau VeritasBureau Veritas will conduct quarterly gold audits on Voima's Customers gold holdings.
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Voima has appointed a new Board of DirectorsThe new Board of Directors comprises Saku Pitkänen, Kai Järvikare and Marko Viinikka.
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Voima donates gemstones for educationVoima, in cooperation with Namu Jewellery, contributes gemstones for the training of the precious metals industry.
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Voima begins cooperation with SignicatVoima has chosen Signicat’s services for internal KYC and e-signature processes.
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Voima
ALS Inspection UK Ltd. is Voima’s new purity analysis partnerVoima is proud to announce a new partnership with ALS Inspection UK Ltd.
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Voima continues as the biggest fintech startup in FinlandVoima has been listed as the biggest fintech startup in Finland by revenue for the second year in a row.
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Voima announces a new Board of DirectorsVoima announces a new Board of Directors, whose members are Sami Alatalo, Tapani Järvinen, Risto Päivänsalo and Marko Viinikka.
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Articles
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Voima
What is a bank run and how can it lead to a banking crisis?This article explains the reasons and consequences of bank runs in general.
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Article
Lasse Lindholm
Gold in crises part 4: warThis article explains the nature of war on a general level and how it impacts asset classes.
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Lasse Lindholm
Gold in crises part 3: stagflationIn this article, we take a look at the Great Inflation and stagflation in 1965–1982 and how different asset classes fared through the crisis.
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Lasse Lindholm
Gold in crises part 2: Great DepressionThe article explains what happened with gold and other assets during the Great Depression.
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Lasse Lindholm
Gold in crises part 1: German hyperinflationThe article explains what happened with gold and other assets during the German hyperinflation in 1921–1923.
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Voima
Why is gold considered valuable?This article discusses the different reasons why people want to own gold and why there is demand for it.
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Lasse Lindholm
Voima's new Community ManagerVoima's new Community Manager, Lasse, tells about his background and his role.
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Voima
What causes inflation?The discussion about inflation is skewed. In this article, we will focus on the true and fundamental reasons why prices are increased.
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Sam Laakso
Russia has not backed the rouble with gold—yetThis article breaks down the facts and fiction regarding the state of the Russian gold market and the actions taken by the central bank of Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
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Marko Viinikka
We need lasting money—the founding of VoimaVoima’s founder relates how the financial crisis, central banks’ easing and the history of money led to the founding of Voima.
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Voima
What is a bank deposit?The money on your bank account is not yours. This article explains the nature of bank deposits.
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Voima
What is money?In this article, we discuss what money is, what is wrong with it nowadays and what we can do about it.
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Highlights
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Highlight
Jan Nieuwenhuijs
What went wrong in 1971?Jan interviews Ben and Collin, the administrators of the "WTF Happened in 1971?" site.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Why gold and why now?Jan sheds light on some of the reasons why gold is a relevant asset class in the 21st century.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
What caused the New York vs. London gold price spread and why it persists?Jan dives into how Covid-19 affected the gold market in terms of arbitrage and physical supply and demand.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
Since its inception, the euro has devalued by 85% against goldA closer look at the development of the euro shows that it is not a good store of value.
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Sam Laakso
Real-world problems: the current state of the gold market in plain languageIn March 2020, the international gold supply chain was in distress. In this article, Sam explains how the supply chain of gold works and how issues in a single link can affect the whole chain.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
What is an SDR and will it be the next world reserve currency?Jan breaks down the anatomy of SDRs and explains, why he thinks it is not capable of being the world reserve currency.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
The West-East ebb and flood of goldJan breaks down the characteristics of the large scale trends that manifest when gold moves between the West and the East.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
US official gold reserves auditor caught lyingInvestigative journalism uncovers a chink in the armour of the US gold reserve audits.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
How much silver is above ground?Above-ground silver stocks are higher than what is widely assumed.
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Jan Nieuwenhuijs
German central bank:”Gold is the bedrock of stability for the international monetary system”What do central banks really think about gold? Let's find out.
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Annual report 2022
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