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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Bank of England, 1720-1913 |
| In 1844, there was a new regulation of the Bank of England, which separated the Bank into an Issue Department and a Banking Department. The Issue Department was solely responsible for issuing and managing banknotes, or "currency in circulation." The Banking Department was responsible for lending, including deposits. We recognize today that deposits at the currency issuer (central bank) are a form of base money, much like banknotes, because they are accepted as an ultimate form of payment. Thus, what we now recognize as "base money" was split between the two Departments. This introduced some funny issues, which we may talk about in much more detail later.Wednesday, April 8, 2020 |
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 | Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co - The Real Asset Co |
 The full guide to Nazi gold and currency war  |
| This morning’s papers and news-shows are full of the story that in 1939 the Bank of England facilitated the sale of Nazi looted gold, not just once but at least twice during that year. Both times without approval of the British government, despite an attempt to freeze Czech assets.
The story of Nazi gold is both fascinating and tragic. We take a look at ‘the greatest robbery of all time’ and draw parallels with the modern day gold migration.
What is Nazi gold?
Nazi gold is a phrase that refers tTuesday, April 7, 2020 |
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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| What should the gold/silver ratio be |
| The price of gold is dominated by investment demand* to such an extent that nothing else matters as far as its price performance is concerned. Investment demand is also the most important driver of silver’s price trend, although in silver’s case industrial demand is also a factor to be reckoned with. In addition, changes in mine supply have some effect on the silver market, because unlike the situation in the gold market the annual supply of newly-mined silver is not trivial relative to the exisSunday, April 5, 2020 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
The Virtue of Hoarding  |
| Most people would admit to hoarding money only with a tinge of guilt, because to be a hoarder carries with it the suggestion of being a miser — a Scrooge. And yet, every participant in an economy based on indirect exchange holds some amount of money and can be said to be hoarding it, that is, declining to spend it. Hoarding is a strategy for achieving personal goals or for dealing with economic uncertainty.Tuesday, March 31, 2020 |
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 | Bix Weir |
| The Three Gold Camps |
| I believe I have found a suitable starting point when I talk about Gold, and I’d like to share it with you to help explain “WHY” to your friends and family. With people who have little or no knowledge of gold, I have decided to start all conversations by narrowing down the different gold “Camps”. Let’s call them the “3 Gold Camps” and here they are:Monday, March 30, 2020 |
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 | Robert Blumen - 24hgold |
 The Myth of the Gold Supply Deficit |
| Analyses based on annual supply and demand of gold appear on a daily basis, whether posted to gold web sites or in the financial media, many of them by the most respected analysts of gold mining shares. These articles typically show an imbalance between supply and demand, suggesting that there is a gold supply deficit. From there, the conclusion follows that a much higher gold price is required in order to bring supply and demand into balance.Friday, March 27, 2020 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Germany's Stolen Gold Reserves - Times are changing - the debts remain (Russian) |
| Is the US Fedkeeping doublebookkeeper entries -addingGermany's plusothergovernments' goldincluded in the USclaimedreserves of 8,100+ tons? Show metheyaren't.
STERN REMINDER:It's notownershipthatcounts - -it'salwayswho has CONTROL! Bereminded ofthistruismwhenitcomes toyourownpersonalbankdeposits and "safe"deposit boxes.Saturday, March 21, 2020 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Inflation and human nature |
| "...Scrabbling in the earth for a fresh source of cash, the gold & silver miners of 13th century Europe proved that the money supply never simply increases as if by magic..."Thursday, March 19, 2020 |
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| The Disastrous History of Money - USA Gold |
| The Nightmare German Inflation |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Revisionist View Of The Great Depression Part One |
| There are two standard views of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Keynesians maintain that the capitalist system is, by its very nature, prone to overproduction and, in the absence of government intervention, excessive inventories will periodically lead to falling prices and to growing unemployment which will further compound the collapse in demand. They advocate public works financed, if need be, by massive deficit spending. The central bank must be instructed to buy up all the government bonds thatSunday, March 8, 2020 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
A beginner's guide to investing in Gold  |
| One’s motivation for buying gold is fundamental to deciding in which form you should buy it. Are you a speculator, investor or saver? Do you wish to take a short term speculative position in gold? Are you investing for the short, medium or long term? Or are you diversifying, saving or using gold as a form of financial insurance?Tuesday, March 3, 2020 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Banker Gold Price Suppression Currency Manipulations Have Persisted for 50 years |
| This 1967 meeting of the FOMC nearly 46 years ago is clear and indisputable evidence of gold price suppression and currency manipulation of the world's "free" and "open" market exchanges.
This criminal cabal has certainly built up their mechanisms since this time to conceal their sinister scheme from issuing dishonest money. It's blatant now and all of "in your face" is their behavioral response to inquiry. Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.
If you find this too cumbersome to read, the FedThursday, February 27, 2020 |
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 | David Morgan - Silver Investor |
 Correcting Antal Fekete's Historical Silver Errors |
| In "The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Gold Games reposted in February 2013
(from January 31, 2008) by Antal
Fekete he stated some errors of fact! Marco Polo, guide us on this excursion
to China! Bruce Lee, help our reflexes to be as fast as yours! May we not be
slap happy like Jackie Chan! Wo Fat, do not mislead us! Antal mentioned China's
silver money system going back to the 16th century, then stated"
"CHINA'S EXTERNAL TRADE WAS INSIGNIFICMonday, February 24, 2020 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Death Valley Snowballs and Fiat Currencies - Gary Christenson |
| Keep it simple!
Snowballs have a short life expectancy in Death Valley.
Fiat currencies, backed by credit and debt, survive longer than
snowballs in Death Valley, but history shows all fiat currencies are
inflated into worthlessness and eventually die.
“U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply.”
Ben Bernanke on November 21, 2002. But we know the supply of dollars
has grown rapidly since 1971, and especially after the 2008 crisis while
BernaTuesday, February 18, 2020 |
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| George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Gary North on central banking, gold, federal debt, and Keynesianism |
| I have never met Gary North and probably never will.Yet, through his writings he has had a far-reaching influence on my thinking, especially with regard to government and economics.He runs a membership website, GaryNorth.com.For $14.95 a month you get access to everything on the site, including four daily articles that he writes six days a week and posts while most people are still asleep.Members can ask questions in the forums to which he and other members will post replies.
North wrote whatMonday, February 17, 2020 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
| Inflation And Alan Greenspan |
| Alan Greenspan 1967
"As the supply of money increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the economy, prices must eventually rise. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value".
Alan Greenspan 1981
"A return to a gold standard (would be) a basic change in our economic processes. A gold-based monetary system will necessarily prevent fiscal imprudence. Once achieved, the discipline of the gold standard would surely reinforce anti-inflation policies, and make it far more difficult to resume financial profligacy".Saturday, February 15, 2020 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
| Why We Now Measure Gold in Dollars — and Not the Other Way Around |
| Prior to 1933, the name "dollar" was used to refer to a unit of gold that had a weight of 23.22 grains. Since there are 480 grains in one ounce, this means that the name dollar also stood for 0.048 ounce of gold. This in turn, means that one ounce of gold referred to $20.67.Observe that $20.67 is not the price of one ounce of gold in terms of dollars as popular thinking has it, for there is no such entity as a dollar. Dollar is just a name for 0.048 ounce of gold. On this Rothbard wrote,No one pMonday, February 10, 2020 |
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 | Michael J. Kosares - USA Gold |
| “Accommodative” |
| Though not a new word to describe Fed policy intentions, using it in today’s statement in the context of obviously rising inflation and inflationary expectations is a new policy stance and one very favorable for gold and likely the Trump administration as well. It seems that the Fed is willing to chase the inflation rate rather than trump it (forgive the reference), and as long as that’s the case, the markets will read inflation into the economic script for the future.
I think some were expectinSunday, February 2, 2020 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| Our Enemy, the Executive State |
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The modern
institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans
face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the nationalSaturday, January 25, 2020 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 2: More Variations |
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Last week, we were talking about some of the technical issues of operating a gold standard system.There are actually quite a few different ways you can do things.
January 8, 2012: Some Gold Standand Technical Operating Discussions
We looked at a few options: one was a standard currency board with another currency.Friday, January 24, 2020 |
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