Category Archive: 6a.) Monetary Metals

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Episode 12: The Yield Purchasing Power Paradigm

2021-02-20

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2021-02-20

Most people think in terms of purchasing power: how much can one’s cash buy? In this week’s episode, CEO Keith Weiner & John Flaherty discuss an alternate perspective. Instead of spending your capital, what if you invested it to earn a return? What can that return buy?

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Episode 11: The Common Ground Between Bitcoin & Gold

2021-02-07

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2021-02-07

Is there common ground the among proponents of gold and bitcoin? John Flaherty and CEO Keith Weiner take on that question in this episode.

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Monetary Metals Renews Financing to Investopedia’s Best Online Gold Dealer

2021-02-06

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2021-02-06

Scottsdale, Ariz, February 5, 2021—Monetary Metals® announces the renewal and expansion of its gold, silver & platinum leases to Money Metals Exchange, to finance the Idaho-based business’ bullion inventory.

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Reddit Residue on Silver, 3 February

2021-02-04

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2021-02-04

Silver Spot vs Mar Basis, February 03
The price of silver is going up and down like a yo-yo. On Sunday and into the first part of Monday, the price skyrocketed on news that Reddit was touting the metal. But as the data clearly showed, the price was not driven up by retail buying of physical metal.

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Ruh Roh Silver

2021-02-03

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2021-02-03

Silver spot vs Mar Basis, February 2
Sometimes you can count on the manipulation conspiracy theorists to get it exactly wrong. Not just a little bit wrong, nor halfway wrong. Not even mostly wrong. Totally wrong, backwards.

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Monetary Metals Issues World’s First Gold Bond Since 1933

2021-01-07

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2021-01-07

Monetary Metals® is pleased to announce the issuance of a bond paying principal and interest in gold. The term is one year, and the interest rate on invested gold is 13%.  According to company CEO Keith Weiner, Ph.D., it is the first proper gold bond in 87 years.

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Reflections Over 2020

2021-01-05

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2021-01-05

Wow, it has been a heckuva year! One thought leads to another on this sunny-but-cool January 1. Having watched a few seasons of Forged in Fire, I’ve gained an appreciation of how difficult it is to pound and grind a lump of steel into a blade, even with power tools. There are many ways for it to go wrong.

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That Precious Metals Rumor Mill, 30 November

2020-12-01

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2020-12-01

Gold Basis and Co-basis and the Dollar Price
We are hearing rumors this week of a shortage of the big silver bars, the thousand-ouncers. No, we don’t refer to bullion banks saying this. Nor big dealers, who are happy to sell us as many of these as we can buy. Nor our peeps in high places (we don’t claim to have any such peeps).

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The Great Reset, 23 November

2020-11-24

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2020-11-24

Gold Basis and Co-basis and the Dollar Price
There are now two entirely different notions of a coming “reset”. One has been popular among those who speculate on the gold price. They expect a revaluation of the dollar.

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Yes, Virginia, There Is An Alternative, 11 November

2020-11-12

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2020-11-12

Gold Basis and the Dollar Price
On Monday the dollar had a ferocious rally, moving up from 15.87mg gold to 16.77mg and from 1.21g silver to 1.32g. In mainstream terms, the price of gold dropped about a hundred bucks, and the price of silver crashed $2.20.

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Recovery: GDP vs MPoD, 2 November

2020-11-03

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2020-11-03

Silver Basis and Co-basis and the Dollar Price
On Wednesday last week, the price of silver dropped from over $24.25 to just a bit over $23 before bouncing back to around $23.50. The next day, the price dropped again, briefly to around $22.60 before mostly recovering (but a dime to a quarter down).

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Keith Weiner, Amy Povah

2020-10-18

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David Gornoski hosts A Neighbor's Choice LIVE 4-6pm EST

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Why These Gold Standardites Are Wrong, 13 October

2020-10-14

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2020-10-14

On Friday, the price of silver went up from $24.25 to $25.20, or +4%. Let’s look at the graph of the price and basis (i.e. abundance) action. For the first part of the day, the action is from speculators, for the most part.

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Keith Weiner on an Economic Ray of Hope, Tho Bishop on Pence – Harris Debate

2020-10-08

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David Gornoski hosts A Neighbor's Choice LIVE 4-6pm EST.

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Silver Falls, We’ve Got #$*&! Mail

2020-10-07

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2020-10-07

Silver Basis and Co-basis and the Dollar Price
There was a big drop in the price of silver last Wednesday. Then the price moved up, and down, but mostly up. Let’s look at a graph of the silver price and basis showing Sep 30 through Oct 5, with intraday resolution.

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Gold and Alternative Investments Conference 2019 – presentation

2020-10-05

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Giving gold a yield....how is this possible? And why?

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Amy Povah, Anrica Caldwell on Those Left Behind, Keith Weiner on Debate Fallout

2020-10-01

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David Gornoski hosts A Neighbor's Choice LIVE 4-6pm EST.

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Silver Rises, JP Morgan Manipulates!

2020-09-30

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2020-09-30

Silver Basis and Co-basis
While the silver price was dropping recently, we published analyses here and here. At that time, we saw a basis that fell with price, but which recovered during “off” days. In short, there was not much of a decrease in abundance of the metal to the markets commensurate with the price drops.

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And Silver Crashes Some More! 24 Sept

2020-09-25

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2020-09-25

A few days ago, we wrote about a big silver crash. The price dropped around 7.5%. And the basis dropped from around 2% to 0.6%. At the end, we said: “The key question is: what is the follow-through? If the price stays down and the basis goes back up, that will be a bearish signal. If the basis stays down, that means the silver market is markedly tighter at $24.50 than it was at $26.75.”

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Keith Weiner on Wall Street and Main Street

2020-09-23

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David Gornoski hosts A Neighbor's Choice LIVE 4-6pm EST. Comment below or call in at 727 587 1040.

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