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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Whither Gold |
| The year 1971 was a milestone in the history of money and credit. Previously, in theworld's most developed countries, money (and hence credit) was tied to a positive value:the value of a well-defined quantity of a good of well-defined quality. In 1971 this tiewas cut. Ever since, money has been tied not to positive but to negative values – the value of debt instruments.Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Is Aggregate Debt Excessive |
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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 INSIGNIFICWednesday, February 24, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Revisionist Theory of Depressions Can It Happen Again |
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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".Monday, February 15, 2021 |
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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 pWednesday, February 10, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Silver and Opium |
| From the mid-17th century more than 9 billion Troy ounces or 290 thousand metric tons of silver was absorbed by China from European countries in exchange for Chinese goods. The British introduced opium along with tobacco as an export item to ChinaSaturday, February 6, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Double Jeopardy |
| The Constitution protects the citizen against "double jeopardy", that is, the judicial arm of the government cannot inflict harm on the citizen twice for one and the same reason. Apparently, the principle of double jeopardy does not apply to the monetary arm of the governmentMonday, February 1, 2021 |
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 | Robert Blumen |
| What Is Key for the Price Formation of Gold |
| Robert Blumen discusses some important but widely misunderstood elements acting on the gold price. He explains that frequently cited gold demand statistics have no relationship to the gold price. In addition, he explains that the annual gold mine production is of very little influence, as gold is hoarded, not consumed like other commodities.
Robert Blumen was born in 1964 and grWednesday, January 27, 2021 |
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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 nationalMonday, January 25, 2021 |
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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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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The origin of cycles |
| It was Karl Marx who was among the first believers that cyclical behaviour was endemic to free markets.He lived through a time when there was a regular cycle of boom and bust, with phases of economic expansion followed by contraction. Workers were employed and then unemployed, and the only way this could be stopped, in Marxian economics, was for the workers to acquire the means of production, or more correctly, the state to do so on their behalf.Other economists, such as Jevons and Wicksell, recSunday, January 24, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
The Revisionist Theory and History of Depressions  |
| An accounting principle, the Law of Liabilities, asserts that a firm ought to carry itsliabilities in the balance sheet at its value upon maturity, or at liquidation value,whichever is higher. This Law is ignored by present accounting standards. The result is arise in the liquidation value of debt, erosion of depreciation quotas, and wholesaledestruction of capital under a falling interest-rate structure caused by a faulty monetarypolicy, hailed as the savior, but which should be condemned as the destroyer.
Recognizing the Law of Liabilities may help us to understand deflations and depressionsbetter.Saturday, January 23, 2021 |
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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
| The History of Money: Peru |
| Peru is the nineteenth largest country in the world and is a diverse land,
both in terms of people and geography. It is populated by over 29.2 million
peopl, largely descended from Spanish settlers, native
Inca, and pre-Inca cultures. Peru has three national languages: Spanish, Aymara,
and the native Quechua, reflecting the native Indian and Spanish roots that
cultivTuesday, January 19, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Has Barrick Been Barricked By The U.S. |
| .Wednesday, January 13, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Vanishing Of The Gold Basis and... |
| The gold basis is defined as the difference between the nearby futures price and the cash price of gold in the same location. A positive basis is called contango; a negative one, backwardation. Since there were no organized futures markets in gold prior to 1971, the history of gold basis is confined to the last 35 or so years Gold futures trading started on the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange in Canada in 1971 at a time when ownership and trading of gold was still illegal in the United States. Upon becoming legal the bulk of gold futuresTuesday, January 12, 2021 |
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| Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
| America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| "Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes
its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty)
Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used
throughout Europe.
A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank
currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing
gTuesday, January 5, 2021 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Economic Aspects Of The Pension Problem |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Fielding my grandson’s questions about gold and banking |
| My grandson had quite a day at school.He had learned that the economy had been suffering from things called Panics, capital P, during the 19th century and had another big one in the early 20th century.He had been told that responsible, public-spirited men like J. P. Morgan had organized a central bank to prevent those Panics.He and other bankers finally got the government to go along with their idea and pass it into law in late 1913.And wouldn’t you know it — we’ve had no more Panics since then.Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Secret of Wealth Preservation - Jeff Nielson |
| We have a failure to communicate. The vast
majority of the investment public in the Western world has no understanding –
at all – about how to preserve and protect their wealth. Of the minority of the
investment community with some understanding of wealth preservation, almost
invariably it is a flawed understanding.
Understanding wealth preservation begins
with having a detailed and correct understanding of
“money”.
Understanding money begins with correctly comprehending the difference betweWednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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