The recent reaction in the gold market to the September US inflation data offers a textbook illustration of how short-term speculative noise can obscure and distort longer-term realities. After the CPI print showed a 0.6% [more…]
Since fiat currencies, per se, are not redeemable for anything other than themselves, their very existence depends upon confidence. The issuing authority must not inflate the currency’s size to the point that it begins to [more…]
The recent “calm” in the gold market has left many observers, and especially the precious metal’s critics, questioning whether the “safe-haven” thesis still stands or whether its time has passed. In the shadow of the ongoing Middle East conflict and the [more…]
The world has been quietly and stubbornly walking away from the US dollar and US Treasuries the last half decade. Now, that walk is becoming a march, and “quietly” is turning to “loudly”. Some in the financial [more…]
In a recent article I pointed out that the surest path to saving the fiat dollar from destruction was to make it fully redeemable in gold at whatever that price happened to be on a [more…]
The purchasing power of the US dollar has been debased by over ninety-nine percent since the foundation of the Federal Reserve. [(An ounce of gold cost $20.67 in 1913. According to the Wall Street Journal [more…]
We often scoff at supposedly how cheap things cost in decades gone by. For example, my wife and I recently watched a stage play of Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story, set in 1940’s America. (The [more…]
Gold’s spectacular performance has drawn a lot of attention and invited endless analyses and commentaries. There are many theories out there as to why the yellow metal is surging like never before in modern memory, [more…]
Bretton Woods (I) Will Be Replaced by Bretton Woods (II) In his recent interview at Manioco64 Alasdair Macleod used the term “Bretton Woods II” to describe the steady progress being made by China to make [more…]
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