Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

Ronald Stöferle The Matterhorn Interview July/Aug 2016

Gold is back and the party in mining stocks is only getting started On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management Lars Schall spoke recently with Ronald Stoeferle about the extensive 2nd Lustrum. 2016 WILL BE A GOOD YEAR FOR GOLD INVESTORS Lars Schall spoke with Incrementum AG’s Ronald Peter Stoeferle about this year’s prospects for gold, …

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The Future of Copper – Incrementum Advisory Board Meeting Q1 2018

The Q1 2018 meeting of the Incrementum Fund’s Advisory Board took place on January 24, about one week before the recent market turmoil began. In a way it is funny that this group of contrarians who are well known for their skeptical stance on the risk asset bubble, didn’t really discuss the stock market much on this occasion. Of course there was little to add to what was already talked about extensively at previous meetings. Moreover, the main...

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What Kind of Stock Market Purge Is This?

Down markets, like up markets, are both dazzling and delightful. The shock and awe of near back-to-back 1,000 point Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) free-falls is indeed spectacular. There are many reasons to revel in it. Today we shall share a few. To begin, losing money in a multi-day stock market dump is no fun at all. We’d rather get our teeth drilled by a dentist. Still, a rapid selloff has many positive qualities.

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Why I Own Gold and Gold Mining Companies – An Interview With Jayant Bandari

Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable has recently interviewed Jayant Bandari, the publisher of Capitalism and Morality and a frequent contributor to this site. The topics discussed include currencies, bitcoin, gold and above all junior gold stocks (i.e., small producers and explorers). Jayant shares some of his best ideas in the segment, including arbitrage opportunities currently offered by pending takeovers – which is an area that generally...

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Seasonality of Individual Stocks – an Update

Readers are very likely aware of the “Halloween effect” or the Santa Claus rally. The former term refers to the fact that stocks on average tend to perform significantly worse in the summer months than in the winter months, the latter term describes the typically very strong advance in stocks just before the turn of the year. Both phenomena apply to the broad stock market, this is to say, to benchmark indexes such as the S&P 500 or the DJIA.

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Dimitri Speck Part Two: The Matterhorn Interview November 2013

PART 2: THE DOUBLE FACE OF GOLD – Dimitri Speck In the second part of this exclusive video interview that was conducted on behalf of MATTERHORN ASSET MGMT, independent financial journalist. Part One: The coordinated effort to suppress the gold price — Dimitri Speck On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management Zurich, Lars Schall met up …

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Ronald Stöferle and Alasdair Macleod on German gold, Europe and precious metals price acti

Subscribe to our newsletter at In this video podcast, Ronald-Peter Stöferle — gold analyst at Erste Bank and writer of the gold report In GOLD we TRUST. Subscribe to our newsletter at The TF Metals Reports Turd Ferguson and GoldMoneys Alasdair Macleod talk about the end of the Great Keynesian Experiment,. Receive Bullion at SPOT …

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Obamacare’s Jonathan Gruber and the Superhero Oath | by Gary Galles

Economists can use their knowledge for both good and evil, and for those in government, such knowledge is often used to deceive and make government programs look less costly than they are. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/obamacare%E2%80%99s-jonathan-gruber-and-superhero-oath * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von …

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Nobel Winner Jean Tirole’s Faulty Views on Monopoly | by Frank Shostak

Economics Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole still clings to the old neoclassical model “perfect competition” and monopoly. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/nobel-winner-jean-tirole%E2%80%99s-faulty-views-monopoly * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)....

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How Macroeconomic Data Encourages Government Intervention | by Frank Shostak

Entrepreneurs need very specific information about their products, markets, customers, and profits. Government macroeconomic data, however, does nothing to assist entrepreneurs to obtain this important information, but only helps justify economic intervention. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/how-macroeconomic-data-encourages-government-intervention * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by...

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Understanding “Quid Pro Quo” | by Gary Galles

The term “quid pro quo” has been twisted to now include government handouts and state-mandated exchanges. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/understanding-quid-pro-quo * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This YouTube channel...

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Ronald Stöferle: gold is a soft metal, but a hard currency

Subscribe to our newsletter at Episode 81: GoldMoneys Alasdair Macleod interviews Ronald Stöferle, who was a gold expert at Erste Group Bank and now. How thin gold leaf really is. For more information visit: . Hard Currencies in a Currency Crisis. Many of the gold and silver enthusiasts think that when the currency crisis hits …

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When Budget Deficits Will Really Go Vertical

United States Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin has a sweet gig. He writes rubber checks to pay the nation’s bills. Yet, somehow, the rubber checks don’t bounce. Instead, like magic, they clear. How this all works, considering the nation’s technically insolvent, we don’t quite understand. But Mnuchin gets it. He knows exactly how full faith and credit works – and he knows plenty more.

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Regulate It First, Learn About It Never | by Gary Galles

Politicians and regulators usually don’t know what they don’t know about everything from health care to your small business, but that sort of compound ignorance won’t stop them from regulating the minutiae of everyday life and commerce. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/regulate-it-first-learn-about-it-never * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is …

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Doug Frenchs top 10 books on money

Subscribe to our newsletter at Episode 66: GoldMoneys Andy Duncan speaks to Doug French about his 10 favourite books written by Austrian school economists. Walter Block Lecturing at Rothbard University 2017 Mises.ca Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Presented by Doug French at The Miracles of Capitalism, a high school seminar hosted at the Mises Institute and sponsored …

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US Stocks – Minor Dip With Potential, Much Consternation

On January 31 we wrote about the unprecedented levels – for a stock market index that is – the weekly and monthly RSI of the DJIA had reached (see: “Too Much Bubble Love, Likely to Bring Regret” for the astonishing details – provided you still have some capacity for stock market-related astonishment). We will take the opportunity to toot our horn by reminding readers that we highlighted VIX calls of all things as a worthwhile tail risk play....

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“Strong Dollar”, “Weak Dollar” – What About a Gold-Backed Dollar?

The recent hullabaloo among President Trump’s top monetary officials about the Administration’s “dollar policy” is just the start of what will likely be the first of many contradictory pronouncements and reversals which will take place in the coming months and years as the world’s reserve currency continues to be compromised. So far, the Greenback has had its worst start since 1987, the year of a major stock market reset.

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The Intolerance Behind Elizabeth Warren’s 11 Commandments of Progressivism | by William L. Anderson

Elizabeth Warren outlines 11 Commandments of Progressivism and each requires coercion and politics to succeed. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/intolerance-behind-elizabeth-warren%E2%80%99s-11-commandments-progressivism * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)....

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Don’t Assume What Is “Unseen” Doesn’t Exist | by Gary Galles

Economists often rely on the assumption of “other things equal.” The problem arises when politicians ignore the economy and unintended results. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/don’t-assume-what-unseen-doesn’t-exist * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND …

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World War One and the End of the Bourgeois Century | by Ryan McMaken

The First World War began one hundred years ago, and it was a total disaster for Europe. The war destroyed not only the bodies and capital of millions of human beings, but it also destroyed the ideology and economy of the peaceful and prosperous century that had come before. Read the text version of this …

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