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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Gotterdammerung |
| Wagner's opera Gotterdämmerung is about the twighlight of pagan gods. The most powerful of the latter-day pagan gods that has been guiding the destinies of humanity for the past two-score of years is Irredeemable Debt. Before August 14, 1971, debts were obligations, and the word "bond" was to mean literally what it said: the opposite of freedom. The privilege of issuing debt had a countervailing responsibility: that of repayment.Wednesday, September 18, 2019 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
The fiat money quantity (FMQ)  |
| Summary : This paper seeks to establish a measure of currency quantity that helps economists identify and estimate the risk that confidence in fiat currencies might be significantly eroded or even vanish altogether. It is this phenomenon that was referred to in the great European currency inflations of the 1920s as Katastrophenhausse, or a crack-up boom, when ordinary people lose all confidence in a fiat currency, disposing of it as rapidly as possible instead preferring ownership of goods.This isTuesday, September 17, 2019 |
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 | Gerard Jackson - Brookes News |
How the Laffer curve really works  |
| Kennedy declared that “it is a paradoxical that tax rates are too high and tax revenues too low”. In other words, high taxes were depressing output. Acting on this belief — what so many today sneeringly call supply-side economics — he cut taxes in 1963 and investment surged ahead. In the four years preceding the Kennedy cuts only 27.8 per cent of what is termed investment went to business and 38.5 per cent to real estate.Monday, September 16, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Gibson’s Paradox The Gold Price |
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| Gold university - Antal E. Fekete |
| The Gold Demonetization Hoax |
| Thursday, September 5, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Goldbug, Variations V |
| .Tuesday, September 3, 2019 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Confederate Inflation Rates (1861 - 1865) |
| The Chart (below right) shows the Annualized Confederate Inflation Rate. The Annual Inflation Rates are calculated from information provided by the Richmond Civil War Centennial
Committee on the purchasing power of Confederate Notes.
The table below shows the actual Confederate Treasury Note Inflation data that was used to develop this chart. At the beginning of the war on January 1, 1861 one Confederate dollar would purchase one gold dollar. By May it toFriday, August 30, 2019 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Goldsilver |
| What the Upcoming Wealth Transfer Will Look Like |
| With gold up 26% year-to-date and silver up 41%, and stock and bond markets looking increasingly precarious, it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming wealth transfer. If Mike is right about what’s ahead for gold and silver, we’ll soon be part of a life-changing shift. Have you thought about how the wealth transfer might affect you? Not like this you haven’t…You grab a calculator for the third time that day, multiplying your gold and silver ounces by the price of each… the total staggers yoMonday, August 26, 2019 |
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| Jeff Clark - Casey Research |
 Does Gold Keep up in Hyperinflation |
| Inflation is anatural consequence of loose government monetary policy. If those policies get too loose, hyperinflation can occur. As gold investors,we'd like to know if the precious metals would keep pace in this extreme scenario.
Hyperinflation is an extremely rapid period of inflation, but when does inflation (which can be manageable) cross the line and become out-of-control hyperinflation? PhilipCagan, one of the very first researchers of this phenomenon, defines hyperinflation as "an inflation rate of 50% or more in a single month, "something largely inconceivable to the average investor.Monday, August 19, 2019 |
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 | Nick Barisheff - BMSINC |
 August 15, 1971: Inflation Unleashed  |
| The general public, the media and most financial observers were largely unaware of the momentous event that took place on August 15, 1971. However, the implications of that event have had an enormous impact on global financial conditions ever since. On that date, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”. In essence, this meant the US would no longer honour the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, whichThursday, August 15, 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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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream |
| .Monday, August 5, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
 The Second Greatest Story Ever Told |
| Fable has it that paper currency came into being as warehouse receipts issued by the goldsmith against gold left on deposit for safe-keeping. The owners found that they could make purchases with these warehouse receipts as easily as with gold coins. Then the goldsmith went on lending out at interest his fictitious warehouse receipts. According to this fable, the fraudulent business of the goldsmith in issuing warehouse receipts against non-existent gold was the embryonic form of the fractional-reserve banking of today.Friday, August 2, 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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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Two Sources Of Credit |
| Tuesday, July 23, 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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 | Dan Popescu - GoldBroker |
| The Gold Standard |
| According to Mises, money’s function as a medium of exchange is thus the central one, while its store of value and unit of account functions are merely subordinate functions. I would say store of value and unit of account is what makes the medium of exchange marketable. The medium of exchange has to be simple to understand, not only by educated people but also the most uneducated. It has to be easily accessed, not only in ideal circumstances but also in difficult ones. Many things have been trieWednesday, July 10, 2019 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Second Front In The Gold World |
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