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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
Upton Sinclair: The Moneychangers  |
| "It had all worked out beautifully, according to the schedule. The stock market was falling to pieces—some of the leading stocks were falling several points between transactions, and Wyman and Hegan and the Oil and Steel people were hammering the market and getting ready for the killing. And at the same time, representatives of Waterman in Washington were interviewing the President, and setting before him the desperate plight of the Mississippi Steel Company.
Already the structure of the countTuesday, June 25, 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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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
 Luxury Bunkers For Sale: The Wealthy Are Buying Multi-Million Dollar Bunkers With “Highest Level Of Military Grade Security” |
| After Donald Trump was elected president, a lot of the fears and concerns that were once so common among conservatives and libertarians, seemed to fade. That state of relief was proven to be temporary, but fears of financial collapse and social disintegration still aren’t as prevalent now as they used to be. A lot of people have let their guard down, because they think things will be alright since “their guy” is in office.
But they should be concerned, because while they’ve been breathing a sighSunday, June 16, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The View From 2011 |
| Today, we will continue our discussion of the “gold sterilization” of 1937.
June 18, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937
June 25, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 #2: Fumbling and Bumbling
We will look at an influential 2011 paper by Douglas Irwin, available here:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17595.pdf
All in all, I think the paper is pretty good, at least in its basic descriptions. It meanders into the usual channels of pointless Monetarism, with some equally pointless math, but it doesTuesday, June 11, 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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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Copernicus, Galileo and Gold. Part I |
| We are deceived when we consent to think about the “price of gold”. At the very outset of our thoughts regarding gold, we are wrong, just as astronomers prior to Copernicus were wrong in thinking about the solar system as geo-centric, with the Sun, Moon and planets describing perfect circles around Earth. Gold is - to follow the astronomical simile - the center of the monetary universe, and the planets - the currencies - circle the Sun, which represents gold.
The correct starting point isSunday, June 9, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 |
| Today, we will start investigating the U.S. recession of 1937, and along with that, claims that the Federal Reserve caused it by some sort of misbehavior. As is our usual practice, we will begin with just looking at some general information about that time.
Industrial production had a short, sharp shock in 1937.
Here’s what it looked like in terms of nominal GDP:
I am not going to try to disentangle what was going on at that time. There were a lot of things, from the introduction of Social SecTuesday, May 21, 2019 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Goldsilver |
| Why Own Gold The Top 10 Reasons to Buy Gold Now |
| Is gold a good investment? Why should you own it?It’s natural and even prudent for an investor to wonder if a particular asset is a good investment or not. That’s especially true for gold, since it’s an inert metal and doesn’t earn any interest.But the reasons for owning physical gold go beyond the possibility of its price rising. Gold bullion offers distinct advantages that simply can’t be found in almost any other investment. These advantages give you power as an investor. And yes, one of thesSaturday, May 18, 2019 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Brent Cook's Primer on Reading Drill Result Press Releases |
| The Gold Report: After the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention in March, you said that the next 12?18 months could define how investors, speculators and mining companies perceive and value both the junior and major mining sectors. That was before the volatility of mid-April. With higher production costs being the new normal, what percentage of miners can make money at the current gold price?
Brent Cook: That is a tough call because companies use different methods to repoSunday, May 12, 2019 |
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| Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Silver and the Great Future of Mexico |
| Lecture of the author at the solemn ceremony of his appointment as Honorary Professor of Northwest Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy.
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Mexico City
June 27, 2017.
Your Excellency, Ambassador Edward Malayan; Doctor Vladimir Shamakhov, Director of the Northwest Institute of Management of Russian Presidential Academy,members of the Honorable Diplomatic Corps here present, and esteemed audience:
I am greatly privileged to be with all ofSunday, May 5, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Bank of England, 1844-1913 2: The Banking Department |
| We are continuing our look at the Bank of England during the period
1844-1913. In 1844, the Bank fell under a new regulation and
reorganization, in which it was separated into two entities, the
Issue Department and the Banking Department. The Issue Department
was solely responsible for paper banknotes, and operated a system
very similar to the "Making Change" or currency-board type system we
looked at earlier.
April
14, 2013: The Bank of England, 1844-1Sunday, May 5, 2019 |
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 | Wolf Richter |
| China Tries to Muscle in on US Dollar as Payments Currency, But It’s a Tough Thankless Slog |
| Dollar hegemony is a tough nut to crack.
China is taking another baby step in promoting the internationalization of the renminbi and nibble on the hegemony of the US dollar: It’s pushing a proposal to add a pile of yuan to the $240 billion currency swap agreement between ASEAN plus China, Japan, and South Korea, in order reduce the system’s reliance on the US dollar and to enhance its own economic clout in the region, according to the Nikkei.
On May 2, the finance ministers and central bankers oSaturday, April 27, 2019 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| New Gold Pool at the BIS Basle, Switzerland: Part 1 |
| “In the Governor’s absence I attended the meeting in Zijlstra’s room in the BIS on the afternoon of Monday, 10th December to continue discussions about a possible gold pool. Emminger, de la Geniere, de Strycker, Leutwiler, Larre and Pohl were present.”
13 December 1979 – Kit McMahon to Gordon Richardson, Bank of England
Introduction
A central bank Gold Pool which many people will be familiar with operated in the gold market between November 1961 and March 1968. That Gold Pool was known as tThursday, April 18, 2019 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| How to Store Silver at Home |
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Now that you’ve decided to buy silver, it's time to think about properly storing and protecting it.
It is often said that silver bullion has no counter-party risk, and in a monetary sense, this is indeed true.
Although silver bullion requires no counter-party to sustain its value, there is and always remains the very real threat of theft.
With the threat of burglary in mind, there are twoMonday, April 8, 2019 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| Gold, Silver, and the US Dollar: 1792-1971 |
| In today's musing, I review the history of gold, silver, and fiat currency as money in the United States of America. I document how various wars, panics and depressions, Congressional acts, and executive orders have affected the US dollar prices of precious metals and resulting gold-silver ratios.This musing covers the period from 1792 when the United States government first established a national currency backed by gold and silver untilSaturday, April 6, 2019 |
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 | Bron Suchecki - Perth Mint |
| Measuring Gold and Silver Weights |
| Gold or silver items have many different weights depending on what is being measured and the purpose. First, some terminology definitions:
Gross
total weight as registered by a scale
Fine
gross weight multiplied by purity
Actual
true, factual or real amount
Nominal
deemed, defined or assumed amount
The above results in four weights:
Actual Gross
total real scale weight
Nominal Gross
Actual Gross rounded up/down
Actual Fine
Actual Gross multiplied by actual purity
Nominal FinFriday, March 29, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
 The Silver:Gold Ratio, 1687-2011  |
| We have something special this week: the open market value of
silver, compared to gold, over a period of over three centuries. The
location is London.
For a long time, silver and gold were, in a sense, two versions of
the same thing, just like one dollar bills and twenty dollar bills
are today. Their ratio of value was not perfectly stable, like the
20:1 ratio of $1 bills and $20 bills, but it was quite stable
between about 16:1 and 15:1. Both silver and gold serWednesday, March 27, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future, by Edwin Walter Kemmerer |
| There aren’t a lot of good books about the gold standard — the monetary system of the world until 1971 — after WWI. There aren’t a lot before WWI either, but it starts to get pretty bad after 1920. Ralph Hawtrey’s books have some merits, but they also have too many errors to serve as a definitive source.
Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future (1944) is something of an exception to this pattern. Edwin Walter Kemmerer was a professor at Princeton.
Wikipedia oTuesday, March 26, 2019 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| March 18, 1968 - "Good Money Is Coined Freedom" Speech by William McChesney Martin, 1968 |
| Today, we have a speech by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, William
McChesney Martin, given on March 18, 1968. At this time, the Bretton
Woods era was coming to an end, not because of some inherent problem,
but because those in charge of maintaining it (including Martin) really
didn't know what they were doing. It was the simplest thing in the
world -- a time of peace and prosperity worldwide -- but they were not
up to the task.
click here for "Good Money Is Coined Freedom," by William McCMonday, March 18, 2019 |
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 | David Zurbuchen |
| The World's Cumulative Gold and Silver Production |
| This is the first installment of a planned 7-part series:
Part 1 - The World's Cumulative Silver and Gold Production. Documenting
the total amount of silver and gold produced since recorded history.
Part 2 - The
Silver Deficit. Documenting the silver production/consumption deficit
since 1942.
Part 3 - The Real Silver Deficit. Answering the questions of "How much
silver has been consumed by industry?" and "In what potentially marketable
accessible forms does it remain?"
Part 4 -Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
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