Category Archive: 6a) Gold & Monetary Metals

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Why a “Dollar” Should Only Be a Name for a Unit of Gold

2016-07-27

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2016-07-27

Once Upon a Time… Prior to 1933, the name “dollar” was used to refer to a unit of gold that had a weight of 23.22 grains. Since there are 480 grains in one ounce, this means that the name dollar also stood for 0.048 ounce of gold. This in turn, means that one ounce of gold referred to $20.67.

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Record Swiss Gold Flow Into The United States

2016-07-27

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2016-07-27

Record Swiss Gold Flow Into The United States. There was a huge trend change in U.S. gold investment in May. Something quite extraordinary took place which hasn’t happened for several decades. While Switzerland has been a major source of U.S. gold exports for many years, the tables turned in May as the Swiss exported a record amount of gold to the United States.

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Gold is not Going to $10,000

2016-07-25

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2016-07-25

Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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The Curious Case of Vanishing Lady Liberty; Only Gold and Silver Remember Her

The very first word anyone ever saw on a circulating United States coin was the word “LIBERTY.” From half-cents to silver dollars, each featured the likeness of an unnamed woman. The images varied, thanks to different engravers, but together they became recognized as Lady Liberty. Many, maybe most, of young America's citizens were illiterate. "Liberty" may have been the first word they ever learned to read.

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Interview with Thomas Mayer

2016-07-19

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Dr Thomas Mayer, Founder of the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute in Germany and ex-Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank, spoke to ieaTV following his speech at the IEA State of the Economy Conference. He discussed the view of the Eurozone in Germany, as well as gave some European historical perspective to monetary and fiscal policy.

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End of an Era: The Rise and Fall of the Petrodollar System

2016-07-18

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2016-07-18

The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or euros. The sooner the better.

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Greenspan, Gold, and the Banality of Evil

Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things. So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the top post at America’s private banking cartel and current issuer of our un-backed currency. In betrayal of his own stated free-market principles, Greenspan spent his tenure at the Fed pumping up financial markets with easy money and enabling runaway...

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A Sense of Foreboding

2016-07-11

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2016-07-11

Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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“The World Is Walking From Crisis To Crisis” – Why BofA Sees $1,500 Gold And $30 Silver

2016-07-11

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2016-07-11

With both stocks and US Treasury prices at all time highs the market is sensing that something has to give, and that something may just be more QE, which likely explains the move higher in gold to coincide with both risk and risk-haven assets. As of moments ago, gold rose above $1,370, and was back to levels not seen since 2014.

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Money Metals President Stefan Gleason Guides Investors on Choices Dangers

2016-07-11

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Listen to part two of the recent interview Money Metals president Stefan Gleason did with Pete Fetig during the 360 Gold Summit. Stefan gives some important warnings to precious metals investors, discusses why he favors one of the precious metals over the others and also talks about some absolutely critical things to consider when selecting a precious metals dealer. ================== Follow Money Metals: ================== News:...

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Money Metals President Stefan Gleason Guides Investors on Choices Dangers

2016-07-11

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Listen to part two of the recent interview Money Metals president Stefan Gleason did with Pete Fetig during the 360 Gold Summit. Stefan gives some important warnings to precious metals investors, discusses why he favors one of the precious metals over the others and also talks about some absolutely critical things to consider when selecting …

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Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan Returns to Gold

Under a gold standard, the amount of credit that an economy can support is determined by the economy’s tangible assets, since every credit instrument is ultimately a claim on some tangible asset. […] The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.

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Fearing Confiscation, Japanese Savers Rush To Buy Gold And Store It In Switzerland

2016-07-08

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2016-07-08

Japan has pushed further away from being the nation that embraces "Krugman Era" economics and deeper into the new "Bernanke Era" economics of helicopter money. As a result Japan's citizens have been on a blitz to save what little purchasing power they still possess, before hyperinflation finally arrives.

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Chinese Gold Demand 973 tonnes in H1 2016, Nomura SGE Withdrawals Chart False

2016-07-08

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2016-07-08

Chinese wholesale gold demand, as measured by withdrawals from the vaults of the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), reached a sizable 973 metric tonnes in the first half of 2016, down 7 % compared to last year.

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The Gold Standard: Friend of the Middle Class

2016-07-07

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2016-07-07

A Morally and Economically Superior Monetary System. It has been theoretically demonstrated and seen in general practice that a monetary system of 100% metallic money devoid of central banking checks monetary inflation, prevents a general rise in the price level, and eliminates the dreaded business cycle while making all sorts of monetary mischief nearly impossible.

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Gold Silver Update for Purists

2016-07-05

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2016-07-05

It’s that dreaded day after Independence Day. The weather is gorgeous and I don’t really feel like trading either. The thought of just phoning it in had occurred to me, but as the new month just rolled over I thought I may as well take another peek at our monthly charts.

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The Gold Situation

2016-07-05

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2016-07-05

A Growing Bullish Chorus – With Somewhat Muted Enthusiasm A few days ago a well-known mainstream investment house (which shall remain nameless) informed the world that it now expects the gold price to reach “$1,500 by early 2017”.

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Marc Faber: Brexit means more money printing by central banks

2016-07-05

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‘Gloom, Boom & Doom’ Report Publisher Marc Faber on the market fallout from Brexit and the outlook for the U.S. economy.

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Silver – OMG!

2016-07-05

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2016-07-05

Keith Weiner's weekly look on Gold. Gold and silver prices, Gold-Silver Price Ratio, Gold basis and co-basis and the dollar price, Silver basis and co-basis and the dollar price.

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ETF Securities Reports Biggest One-Day Gold Inflow Since Financial Crisis

2016-07-04

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2016-07-04

It never ceases to amaze how vastly different the investment styles of gold paper vs physical traders are: while we have documented previously how the latter tend to buy progressively more the lower the price (as traditional "buy low, buy more lower" investing would suggest), "investors" in gold paper-derivatives such as ETFs and ETPs are quite the opposite: in fact, they rarely buy until someone else is buying and generating momentum.

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