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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
Basic Gold Market Facts  |
| Here are ten basic gold-market realities that are either unknown or ignored by many gold 'experts'.1. Supply always equals demand, with the price changing to maintain the equivalence. In this respect the gold market is no different from any other market that clears, but it's incredible how often comments like "demand is increasing relative to supply" appear in gold-related articles.2. The supply of gold is the total aboveground gold inventory, which is currently somewhere in the 150K-200K tonneWednesday, August 14, 2019 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Keeping our Eyes Peeled for the Silver and Gold Basis |
| Here is a question for the discriminating observer. How is it that interest-rate derivatives do not obey the Law of Supply and Demand? The more there are of them, the more they are in demandSaturday, August 10, 2019 |
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 | Perth Mint Blog |
| Then, As Now, Silver's Course Dangerous To Predict |
| Looking for something different to read during my midday break today, I visited The Perth Mint’s library and came across “Messrs.Mocatta andGoldsmid’s Circular on the Movements of Gold and Silver during 1913”, an Appendix to the British Royal Mint’s 1913 Annual Report.
Silver investors will find this circular of 100 years ago of interest as Messrs.Saturday, August 10, 2019 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Swiss central bank sight deposits hit record, suggesting FX interventions |
| The Swiss National Bank may have intervened to tame the franc's rise, with record-high sight deposits pointing to currency market activity.
The cash commercial banks hold with the central bank, which economists consider an early indicator of SNB moves in foreign exchange markets, climbed 0.3% from the previous week to 583 billion francs ($597 billion) as of Aug. 2, figures released on Monday showed. That's the second consecutive sizable increase.
"It does suggest interventions," said Credit SuMonday, August 5, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
The Federal Reserve As An Engine Of Deflation (sic!)  |
| Although the Fed’s open market purchases of securities (always net) affect only the short end of the yield curve directly, through the transmission of risk-free bond speculation they will affect the rest of the yield curve indirectly. Thus the entire spectrum of interest rates will keep falling in consequence of the Fed’s open market purchases of Treasury bills (or equivalent). This is a powerful if unrecognized force in the economy causing a chain-reaction as follows:Wednesday, July 31, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
Credit Unions  |
| Tuesday, July 30, 2019 |
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| Missing and fractional gold - Market Force Analysis |
| Central Banks are NOT ordinary Gold Investors |
| "The differences in the degree of marketability is of the highest significance for the theory of money. The failure to recognize this is one of the essential causes of the backward state of monetary theory. The theory of money necessarily presupposes a theory of marketability of goods."
(Carl Menger On the Origin of Money, 1892)Sunday, July 28, 2019 |
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| Hyperinflation - USA Gold |
 The Nightmare German Inflation |
| Hey, Mr. Chairman, in case you haven't noticed, the Federal Reserve already has a goodly supply of oxen!
My father was fond of relating a story about a professor lecturing on geography. A short fellow, he was extolling the agriculture of Switzerland. "In our country oxen are not even as tall as I am. In some countries you see oxen just as tall as myself. But, believe it or not, on the fat pastures of Switzerland there are even greater oxen than myself". For emphasis the good professor stood on his tiptoes and stretched his hand upwards above his head. "We don't believe so!" - shouted someone from the back benches of the lecture theater.Saturday, July 13, 2019 |
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 | Thorsten Polleit |
 The Fiasco of Fiat Money |
| I. Today's worldwide paper-, or "fiat-," money regime is an economically and socially destructive scheme — with far-reaching and seriously harmful economic and societal consequences, effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine.
Fiat money is inflationary; it benefits a few at the expense of many others; it causes boom-and-bust cycles; it leads tooverindebtedness; it corrupts society's morals; and it will ultimately end in a depression on a grand scale.Thursday, July 11, 2019 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| A banker for all seasons: the life and times of John Exter – champion of sound money |
| The following is an introduction to a series of essays GoldMoney will be publishing, written by John Butler and Barry Downs, looking at the life and times of John Exter – leader in the fight against Richard Nixon, Alan Greenspan and the debasement of the US dollar. The source material for these essays includes John Exter's collected papers and works; the personal experiences, diary entries and recollections of the author; and interviews with former colleagues, friends and family of John Exter's.Thursday, July 4, 2019 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Blame Gold |
| We have been talking about The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
July 23, 2017: The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
As you probably guessed from the three-word title, the book can be summarized in two words, which are: “blame gold.”
This, as we have seen, is actually a relatively new notion, even if it enjoys some popularity today. The general consensus, which later (after 1950) became the Keynesian consensus, did not blame gold, or indeed, monetary policy in general, for the Great DWednesday, July 3, 2019 |
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| Gold - Antal E. Fekete |
| The Gold Demonetization Hoax |
| Tuesday, July 2, 2019 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - plata.com.mx |
 The Gold Standard: Generator Protector Of Jobs |
| The abandonment of the gold standard in 1971 is closely tied to the massive unemployment the industrialized world has suffered in recent years; Mexico, even with a lower level of industrialization than the developed countries, has also lost jobs due to the closing of industries; in recent years, the creation of new jobs in productive activities has been anemic at best.Thursday, June 27, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Devaluations of the 1930s Don't Justify Today's Funny Money Excess |
| Without question, the Great Depression was a time when the political
consensus moved from a Classical “hard money” approach towards a
Mercantilist “soft money” approach — leading, ultimately, to today’s
“print until the pain goes away” reaction. Actually, this trend had
started in the later 19th century, and was not fully expressed until
the 1970s – an evolution stretching over a hundred years or more.
But, the experience of the Great Depression period of the 1930s
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| Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| How much do you know about gold investing |
| It’s easy to fall in love with gold. After all, the rich and famous have obsessed over it for millennia. During the past two decades, gold ownership has become much more widespread. No longer a sole preserve of the elite, every day and mum and dad investors have also taken a shine to the glittering yellow metal. Accessibility to gold through bullion bars and legal tender coins, certificates and exchange traded products makes buying and storing gold simple. Driving folk to take advantage is thisSaturday, June 22, 2019 |
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
Fiat 33  |
| "Sir, I would say, "Old World Order" to return.
To understand/explain better: A very easy way
to view this "order", would be to simply say that
the American Experience is reaching the end! As we know,
world war two left Europe and the world economy destroyed.
Many thinkers of that period thought that the world was about
to enter a decades long depression as it worked to rebuild real
assets lost in the conflict. It was this war that so impacted the
idea of looking positively toward the fuFriday, June 21, 2019 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
| Why Wage Growth Is So Weak |
| The yearly growth rate of average hourly earnings in production and non-supervisory employment in the private sector eased to 2.3% in June from 2.4% in May.Many experts are puzzled by the subdued increase in workers earnings. After all, it is held the US economy has been in an expansionary phase for quite some time now.
Softer real output growth important reason why hourly earnings remain under pressureAccording to the US Government’s own data, since 2000, in terms of industrial productiWednesday, June 19, 2019 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Global Times - Hard lessons from China's silver standard |
| History will repeat, but this time around America will not be able to coin silver Trade Dollars to conduct trade with Asia. Oops. Oh, where O where did my empire go?
Source: Caijing.com.cn
[08:30 July 15 2009]
Chinese macroeconomic historian Ray Huang used to say the Qing Dynasty never understood monetary and fiscal policy, and therefore was unable to compete against the West. In those days, monetary policy in China was essentially tied to silver, the national money standard since tMonday, June 10, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Nonexistent 'Social Costs' of a Gold Standard System |
| One of the odd notions that has come down through the years is that a
gold standard system has “social costs.” It does not. It creates a
profit.
Of course, it does take effort to dig gold out of the ground. However,
gold production never ceased after the end of the world gold standard
in 1971. Roughly half of all the gold ever mined, in all of history,
has been mined after 1971. Annual production today is the highest in
history, and about double what it was in 1970. People seem happy to
continuFriday, June 7, 2019 |
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| How did it happen ? - Barbarous Relic |
| The Virtue of Hoarding |
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