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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.Sunday, January 24, 2021 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| Financial crisis dynamics, the ‘shadow’ gold demand, and Mene |
| The study of financial crises is as old as the economics discipline itself. One of the most prominent theorists of financial crises ever to hold a senior Federal Reserve policy position was John Exter, vice-president of the New York Federal Reserve during the 1950s. Several years ago I co-wrote a series of essays on Exter’s theories together with his sonin- law, Barry Downs. In this paper, building on Exter’s work, including his eponymous ‘pyramid’, I introduce a new ‘hourglass’ framework for unSaturday, November 14, 2020 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Eat Gold |
| Submitted by BullionStar.com
A popular phrase in segments of the mainstream financial media is that “You Can’t Eat Gold”. We don’t know who first uttered this comment, but it was more than likely a talking-head or Wall Street analyst on CNBC or Bloomberg.
The disparaging claim seems to be based on concluding that in a financial or monetary crisis, if you own gold, that “You Can’t Eat It”. And so, according to the logic of whoever came up with the phrase, this would make gold useless during a finMonday, August 13, 2018 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Standing Ready to Lease Gold |
| We will take another break from capital destruction, to treat a topic which has come up this week. On March 11, we said:
“…central bankers do not think about gold.
Granted, they once did. In the 1960’s, there was the now-infamous London Gold Pool to keep the price of gold at $35. This is endlessly cited as evidence of current central bank price suppression, without bothering to mention that until 1971 the official US policy was to maintain the dollar to gold exchange rate of $35 to the ounce. …
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| U.S. bank derivatives books larger since rescue of Bear Stearns |
| At the end of January 2008, in what would turn out to be its final annual report, Bear Stearns went into some detail about its big book of derivatives. The book had a notional value of $13.4 trillion at the end of November, Bear said, up more than 50 percent from a year earlier. A two-notch downgrade in the firm's credit ratings, it added, would require it to come up with an extra $353m in collateral.
This huge cluster of financial instruments -- swaps, futures, forwards, and options -- may not Sunday, March 18, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Monetary Metals' Weiner responds but answers nothing |
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1p ET Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals, whose recent commentary, "Super-Duper-Irrational Exuberance" was disputed by your secretary/treasurer yesterday --
http://www.gata.org/node/18102
-- today responds to the criticism but answers nothing about it.
In his "Open Letter to GATA," posted at GoldSeek here --
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1521038153.php
-- Weiner continues to ignore all the documentation GATA has collected over nearly 20 years to show that centraWednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Women’s Pension Crisis Highlights Dangers To Savers |
| – International Women’s Day highlights the underreported UK Women’s pension crisis– 2.66 million affected by UK government’s change to state pension act– Women’s pension crisis is one of many in the UK, where there is a £710bn deficit for prospective retirees– Changes by government highlights the counterparty risks pensions are exposed to– Global problem as pensions gap of developed countries growing by $28B per day– Savers and investors should look to invest in gold as part of their pensions
ISaturday, March 10, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Digital Gold Provide the Benefits Of Physical Gold |
| – Will digital gold provide the benefits of physical gold?– Digital gold and crypto gold products claim to combine efficiencies of blockchain with value of gold– They are yet to provide the same benefits or safety as owning physical gold– National mints jumping in on the ‘sexy blockchain’ act – BOE declares bitcoin ‘not a currency;’ Royal Mint launches blockchain gold product– Digital gold, blockchain gold and crypto gold is frequently not fully backed, unallocated, pooled and unsecured gold hoMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Something is definitely “changing” but what is it |
| Markets around the world are convulsing which is definitely different than anything we have seen in over a year. We also know that interest rates are going higher all over the world. In fact, if you look at rates going back to 1981, the downtrend line(s) has been broken and thus a very major change. Generational trades and 37 year trend lines are rare on their own, when they finally break it means something very big has changed and you must do your very best at trying to figure out “what” it is.Monday, February 12, 2018 |
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 | Bill Holter |
| Something is definitely “changing” but what is it |
| Markets around the world are convulsing which is definitely different than anything we have seen in over a year. We also know that interest rates are going higher all over the world. In fact, if you look at rates going back to 1981, the downtrend line(s) has been broken and thus a very major change. Generational trades and 37 year trend lines are rare on their own, when they finally break it means something very big has changed and you must do your very best at trying to figure out “what” it is.Monday, February 12, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Cyber War Coming In 2018 |
| – Cyber war is increasing threat – Investors are not prepared for– Third most likely global risk in 2018 is cyber war say WEF
– “Scale and sophistication of attacks is going to grow”– EU, US, NATO lay down ground rules for offensive cyber war– Ireland is viable target for attackers but is ‘grossly unprepared for cyber war’– UK should expect attack that cripples infrastructure within 2 years
– Trump administration may use nuclear weapons in response to cyber attacks– Cyber war designed to have a Wednesday, January 24, 2018 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| Bitcoin backwardation, gold contango |
| People often refer to bitcoin as digital gold because of the similarities between the two assets. One big difference between gold and bitcoin is currently playing out in their respective futures markets. Since bitcoin futures were introduced last December by the CBOE, futures prices have often been inverted, or in backwardation. This sort of phenomenon rarely happens in gold markets, which trade normally, or in contango. Let's explore why inversion seems to be relatively common with bitcoin and Monday, January 22, 2018 |
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
| Happy New Year! |
| 2018
Year of the POP
If you'd like to read "Year of the POP", I'm sure you can guess where it can be found. ;D
At the Speakeasy, we discuss things like bullion, bitcoin, bubbles, banking, and much much more. As I did in Nine, at the ninth anniversary of this blog, and back in May at the second anniversary of the new Speakeasy, I have started a new tradition of sharing samples from the Speakeasy here. For this one, I picked a fun post from back in August. It's about the coat-check room view oTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| It’s A Wonderful Life Is A Wonderful Lesson To Hold Gold Outside of The Banking System |
| – Christmas film serves as reminder that savings are not guaranteed protection by banks
– Savers are today more exposed to banking risks than ever before
– Gold and silver investment reduce exposure to counterparty risks seen in financial system
– Basket of Christmas goods has climbed since 2016 thanks to 11% climb in gold price
Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s A Wonderful Life is one that many families will be settling down to watch this Christmas weekend. A story that is ultimately about a suicidWednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Happy 2nd Birthday Bail-in Tool! We Suggest Gold As The Perfect Gift |
| – Two years since bail-in rules officially entered EU regulations– EU bail-in rules have wiped out billions for savers and and businesses, with more at risk– Future of many failing banks now rests on depositors who may no longer be protected by deposit insurance– Physical gold enables savers to stay out of banking system and reduce exposure to bail-ins– For more listen to our Goldnomics Podcast: What does 2018 have in store for financial markets?
Ah, New Year’s resolutions, what fun. For some rSaturday, December 23, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Bailins Coming In EU – 114 Italian Banks Have NP Loans Exceeding Tangible Assets |
| – Italy opposes ECB proposal that holds banks to firm deadlines for writing down bad loans– Italy’s banks weighed down under €318bn of bad loans– New ECB rules could ‘derail’ any recovery in Italy’s financial system– Draft proposal requires banks to provision fully for loans that turn sour from 2018– ECB insists banks have better access to collateral on delinquent debt to solve problem– Investors should secure assets as proposal suggests more bailins on horizon and banks remain at risk
Source: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| SELL CRYPTOS – BUY GOLD |
| During the 2006-9 financial crisis, a collapse of the global financial system was avoided by massive money printing, guarantees and allowing banks to value assets at cost rather than market, as well as a panic lowering of interest rates from as high as 6% in the US to zero or negative. Bonds issued by eight major countries currently have negative interest rates from 1 & 2 year debt for Italy up to 15 & 30 year debt for Japan, Germany and Switzerland.
GLOBAL LIABILITIES OF $2 QUADRILLION
WhateveThursday, December 7, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Bailins Coming In EU – 114 Italian Banks Have NP Loans Exceeding Tangible Assets |
| – Italy opposes ECB proposal that holds banks to firm deadlines for writing down bad loans
– Italy’s banks weighed down under €318bn of bad loans
– New ECB rules could ‘derail’ any recovery in Italy’s financial system
– Draft proposal requires banks to provision fully for loans that turn sour from 2018
– ECB insists banks have better access to collateral on delinquent debt to solve problem
– Investors should secure assets as proposal suggests more bailins on horizon and banks remain at risk
SouTuesday, December 5, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Bitcoin $10,000 – Huge Volatility of Cryptocurrencies and Risky Fiat Making Gold Attractive |
| – Bitcoin tops $10,000, soaring more than 850% since beginning of 2017
– Irrational exuberance arguably main driver of price performance
– Google Trends shows search for ‘Bitcoin Bubble’ hit highest level this morning
– Buyers need to be aware of hacking and security risks
– Other primary risks to widespread adoption is volatility and liquidity risk
– World’s largest online trading platform IG Markets suspends BTC trading
– Volatility of cryptocurrencies and risky world of fiat make gold attractTuesday, November 28, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| What did Greenspan mean about leasing gold if the price rose |
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11:14a ET Wednesday, November 15, 2017
When Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in July 1998 that "central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise," was he, as GATA maintains, essentially confessing to the gold price suppression scheme?
Financial letter writer Avi Gilburt of ElliottWaveTrader.net disputes that in commentary posted today at GoldSeek, "Did the Fed's Alan Greenspan Admit that Gold Is Being Manipulated?":
http:/Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
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