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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 doesMonday, June 25, 2018 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
 Copernicus, Galileo and Gold. Part II  |
| The development of Economics and the development of Astronomy share interesting parallels.
Aristarchus of Samos – the Greek island that produced Pythagoras – was born in 310 B.C. Aristarchus set Astronomy on the path that would have led to its correct development by postulating the Sun as the center of the Universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun while revolving around its own axis; he also set the planets in the correct order of their distance from the Sun.
Unfortunately, the preconceiTuesday, June 19, 2018 |
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 | Tim Iacono - Iacono Research |
 Inside the New York Fed’s Gold Vault |
| National Geographic goes to 33 Liberty Street in New York City to visit the Federal Reserve’s gold vault, home to about one-quarter of the world’s gold. Beginning at about the 3 minute mark, you get to see what one tonne of gold looks like, another reminder of just how dense the metal is.
About half-way through this segment, they visit the New York gold district and then they begin a discussion of the current monetary system with this:
All that money used to be backed by gold, but not any moreFriday, June 15, 2018 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Gold Silver Confiscation: Can the Government Seize Assets |
| One concern of retail precious metals investors is the possibility of a gold confiscation.Imagine having the forethought to buy gold to shield your finances from an economic or monetary crisis—only to have it taken away from you by your government. You’d lose not just the protective buffer you put in place but potentially a chunk of your net worth.Gold confiscation may sound preposterous to investors used to securities or real estate. But it’s happened in the past enough times to make it a reasoFriday, June 15, 2018 |
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 | Tim Wood - Cyclesman.com |
The Speculative Episode  |
| The following text is a quote from the book A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith. I found this material to be very fitting and for that reason I wanted to share it with you.
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable…as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.” …Friedrich Von Schiller, As quoted by Bernard BaruchWednesday, June 13, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
 Misconceptions about Gold |
| Few markets are as widely misunderstood and subject to so many misconceptions as gold. Many of those misconceptions stem from gold's dual role as a commodity and money. This post will attempt to clear up some of those misconception with a few facts. Let's start with one key fact. Gold is Money
Gold is MoneyMonday, June 4, 2018 |
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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 SecMonday, June 4, 2018 |
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 | Ron Paul - Texas Straight Talk |
I love Gold because it gives financial security  |
| It is not Gold in and of itself that excites me, but the many benefits of sound money. Another benefit is financial security.
Can sound money give you financial security? There is something very comforting in knowing that what you earn today will retain its purchasing power in the years to come. Indeed, the same silver dime that bought a loaf of bread in the 1960s can still buy a loaf of bread with its precious metal content – which is worth about $1.00 today.Tuesday, May 29, 2018 |
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 | Robert Blumen - 24hgold |
| Real Bills, Phony Wealth |
| "The masses are misled by the assertions of the pseudo-experts,” wrote Mises, “that cheap money can make them prosperous at no expense whatever.” The damage that this inflationary fallacy has done to our monetary institutions cannot be over-estimated. In spite of efforts by classical and Austrian economists to refute it, it refuses to die. It has been resurrected under many guises, but all with the same error at its core: that printing money can create real wealth.Sunday, May 27, 2018 |
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 | Stewart Dougherty |
| Fort Knox, Fort Hocks or Fort Shocks: Three United States Gold Scenarios |
| For 72 years, the building at the intersection of Bullion Boulevard and Gold Vault Road in Fort Knox, Kentucky has symbolized the financial strength of the United States of America. The United States Bullion Depository, better known as Fort Knox, is said to contain 147.3 million troy ounces of gold, over half the nation’s total reported gold bullion holdings of 261.5 million troy ounces. The remaining 114 million ounces are said to be stored at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints, the West Point Bullion Depository, and the San Francisco Assay Office. Assuming a price of $1,000 / ounce, the nation’s gold is worth $261.5 billion. If the metal is actually there, it represents the largest sovereign stockpile of gold bullion in the world.Friday, May 25, 2018 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Casey Research |
| Should I Buy Numismatic Coins 3 Risks of Collectible Gold Coins |
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Numismatic coins can be a fun hobby, and can offer the collector a beautiful timepiece from interesting periods in history.Unfortunately, many novice investors that dabble in this market have lost money. And in many of those cases, the price of gold actually rose while the coins were held!How can an investor lose money on valuable rare coins? And why don’t they rise with the gold price?This article highlights three specific risks investors take with numismatics. Let’s coWednesday, May 23, 2018 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Gold Standard Manifesto |
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 | Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management |
| Want To Reduce Missteps Become A Two-Faced Investor |
| Improving Your Perspective On Markets.
We all want:
To become better investors.
To improve our ability to probabilistically forecast future market outcomes.
To reduce daily investment stress.
To sleep better at night.
If any of the points above apply to our current investment circumstances,
it is highly unlikely these issues will be addressed unless we are willing
to take an honest inventory of our current approach to the financial markets.
Topic Is Timely
Stocks have been holdiWednesday, May 16, 2018 |
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| Food for thought |
| US Treasury : Federal Notes have no Value for themselves |
| Federal Reserve notes are not redeemable in gold, silver or any other commodity, and receive no backing by anything.Monday, May 14, 2018 |
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 | Paul Tustain - Galmarley.com |
| Calculating the "Fair Value" of Gold |
| In the absence of cashflow, judging gold's present "fair value" means analysing it like an insurance actuary would...Monday, May 7, 2018 |
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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 tWednesday, May 2, 2018 |
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 | Adrian Douglas - Market Force Analysis |
| Central Banks are NOT ordinary Gold Investors |
| Central banks do not sell gold to get a few billion of their own fiat money in return, money they probably would throw on top of the stack of half a trillion freshly printed notes that rolled off their presses just that morning. No, central banks sell gold to make it appearTuesday, May 1, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
 State Dept. memo explains U.S. policy to drive gold out of financial system |
| A long memorandum written in March 1974 by a U.S. State Department official for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and copied to future Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the Treasury Department's undersecretary for monetary affairs, describes the desire of the United States and its options to prevent European countries from increasing the use of gold in the international financial system.
The memo, titled "Gold and the Monetary System: Potential U.S.-E.C. Conflict," was recently discovSunday, April 29, 2018 |
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 | Edwin Vieira - GATA |
| Silver and Gold Guarantee Freedom |
| Silver and gold are not merely valuable commodities, investments, and media of exchange. More importantly, they are key "checks and balances" in America's legal and political institutions.
The fight against the use of silver and gold as money that has been waged by bankers and rogue politicians since the 1870s as to silver and the 1930s as to gold -- and will intensify as fiat currencies collapse throughout the world -- is ultimately directed against America's national independence, her constitutional government, and every common American's individual liberty and prosperity.Saturday, April 28, 2018 |
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 | FoFOA |
| All Paper is STILL a short position on gold |
| The gold derivatives pyramid is a vigorous free market creature. It cannot be put down with a simple declaration that the paper is no longer redeemable in gold, as governments did with currency. It is a short selling scheme that has become a trap from which few short sellers will escapeWednesday, April 25, 2018 |
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