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Stefan Gleason: The Big Inflation Scam

2021-04-18

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2021-04-18

Tom welcomes Stefan Gleason, president of Money Metals Exchange, to the show. The idea of sound money is something that holds it’s value over time in contrast to fiat currencies. The market has chosen gold and silver over thousands of years as the money that sustains and preserves purchasing power.

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Episode 19 – Bonus Episode! Theory of Interest and Prices Mises Conference 2021

2021-04-17

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2021-04-17

Keith presented his Theory of Interest and Prices at the Mises’ Austrian Economics Research Conference earlier this year. Described as one of the most interesting talks of the entire event, this episode includes his fifteen-minute presentation as well as some follow-up thoughts by Keith himself at the end.

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Marriage of Gold and Cryptocurrencies: A New Future?

2021-04-16

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2021-04-16

The debate between relatively new digital cryptocurrencies versus ‘tried and true’ gold has dominated most precious metals related websites. But what if gold and cryptocurrencies were combined? According to a Bloomberg article a NYC Real Estate Mogul, after learning about cryptocurrencies from his son, is putting this concept to work by securing a minimum of $6 billion in gold reserves to back his new cryptocurrency.

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Rising Debt Means a Weaker Dollar

2021-04-11

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2021-04-11

Americans appear to be growing more concerned about the skyrocketing national debt level – officially $28.1 trillion and counting. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s monthly Fiscal Confidence Index recently shed five points, dropping to a level of 47, in the wake of the Biden Administration’s latest $2 trillion stimulus package.

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Is ESG Investment the Future of Gold & Silver?

2021-04-10

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2021-04-10

‘ESG’ is a great buzzword in investing right now. For years the momentum has been building for the idea that retirement savings should do more than keep you secure, it also should help the planet. Obviously, no one wants to hurt the planet since its our only home. ESG Investment is shorthand for Environmental, Social and Governance, which are the three lenses through which investments are to be ranked.

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Is The Bull Market Over For Gold?

2021-04-03

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2021-04-03

Gold has not made new highs in many months. Gold peaked last year at US$2067 on August 6. The 7 month down leg of more than 18% as been deep enough and long enough that some commentators are now saying that the bull market has now turned to a bear market for gold.  Losing faith is understandable because falling prices feel bad. But this week we want to show that current prices may not reflect reality.

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Monetary Metals Issues Gold Token

2021-04-01

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2021-04-01

Scottsdale, Ariz, April 1, 2021— Monetary Metals® announces that it has issued a gold token. Unlike the company’s other products, this one is not designed to pay a yield. In a sign of the times, the company intends this product to generate big speculative gains. It is designed to GO UP!

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Episode 17: Why Fedcoin?

2021-03-30

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2021-03-30

Our recent article on Fedcoin – a digital currency being considered by the Federal Reserve – revealed the sinister and pernicious reasons behind such a move. This week’s episode of The Gold Exchange Podcast explores the topic further. In it, John Flaherty and CEO Keith Weiner discuss: Addl description of episode

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Things That Make Me Go Hmmm: Inflation, Crypto, Command Economies, & Gold

2021-03-29

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2021-03-29

Over the years I’ve written almost ad nauseum about the crazy I see (and saw) around me as a fund manager, family office principal and individual investor.The list includes: 1) an entire book on the grotesque central bank distortions of free market price discovery.

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Prices Are Set to Soar

2021-03-21

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2021-03-21

"Government,” observed the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, “is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper and make it worthless by applying ink.” Mises was describing the curse of inflation, the process whereby government expands a nation’s money supply and thereby erodes the value of each monetary unit—dollar, peso, pound, franc, or whatever.

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Getting Ready For Gold’s Golden Era

2021-03-20

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2021-03-20

Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com,Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be.The mainstream view of gold right now is an open yawn, and sentiment indicators for this precious metal are now at 3-year lows despite the gold highs of last August.Is this cause for genuine concern?

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ETF Gold Demand Soars while Consumer Demand Slows

2021-03-19

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2021-03-19

ETF gold demand from investors has soared over the past year. The unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus were rolled out to tackle the effects of Covid -19. However, consumer demand, particularly but not surprisingly, jewellery demand slumped.

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Swiss refiner comes up with method to verify gold’s origin 

2021-03-17

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2021-03-17

Metalor, one of the world’s biggest gold refiners, has developed a way to quickly confirm where gold had been mined, potentially stopping illegal gold from entering supply chains. 

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The Fedcoin is Coming, 8 March

2021-03-09

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2021-03-09

Before we talk about Fedcoins, let’s look at the old school non-digital, non-blockchain, coin. Gold. And silver. Since January 4, the price has dropped about $244. And the price of silver has fallen about $4. Are these buying opportunities? Or the end of the brief gold bull market of 2020 (i.e. Covid)?

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Central Banks Will Still Do “Whatever It Takes”!

2021-03-06

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2021-03-06

Governments are taking a page out of the play book that monetary policy began a decade ago – which will lead to even higher debt levels.

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Episode 14: Unexpected Insights On Fractional Reserve Banking

2021-03-05

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2021-03-05

Our previous episode on “money printing” veered into fractional reserve banking at a few points, so this week John Flaherty and Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner dive into that topic.

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The bitcoin surge in its proper context

2021-03-02

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2021-03-02

Over the last few weeks we’ve been witnessing a historic surge in the Bitcoin price, a seemingly unstoppable ride that the mainstream media headlines can hardly keep up with. Especially following the news that Elon Musks’ Tesla bought $1.5 in the cryptocurrency, sending it to new record highs, most of the media coverage appears to be focused on all the wrong things.

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How High is Too High for Rising Government Bond Yields?

2021-02-27

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2021-02-27

The two day rise in the gold price of more than US$50 fizzled out on Tuesday. The gold price is down about 7% (in US dollar terms) since its year-to-date high set on January 6. It is also down 13% from its all-time high set in August 2020. The silver price, boosted by social media attention, did not set its year-to-date high until February 1.

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Episode 13: The Pressing Problem With “Money Printing”

2021-02-26

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2021-02-26

The phrase “money printing” conjures images of a giant printing press spitting out sheets of hundred dollar bills somewhere in the basement of the Fed. But is that what’s actually happening lately? Absolutely not. Join John Flaherty and Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner for a conversation that will likely make you say “WOW!” or “Whaaat?” or maybe even “Oh, NOW I get it…”

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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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