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By Brett Heath |
May 22, 2012
The powers that be have total control over money, as they set the price for capital via manipulating the interest rates. So it is not a stretch that they would be concerned with a rising gold price because gold is a threat to how the current fiat regime functions.
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By Juan Castañeda |
May 16, 2012
The gold standard seen in Britain and other countries during the 19th century is a good example of a self-correcting monetary system that nonetheless operated on a fractional reserve basis.
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By Philip Burgert |
May 15, 2012
A Q&A with the chairman of Sprott Inc., chief excutive officer, chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager for Sprott Assett Management LP and chairman of Sprott Money Ltd., on his “Call to Action” to silver producers.
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By Jeff Berwick |
May 2, 2012
Even in the off chance that somehow these nation-states and their currencies can stay alive for another decade or two until you "retire" they will be in such a tattered state of affairs that the tax rate will be extraordinarily higher than it is today.
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By Ron Hera |
April 26, 2012
What is important about the pervasive negative sentiment is that it is a key indicator of a market bottom. At the top of the market, there are a hundred reasons to buy and, at the bottom of the market, there are a hundred reasons to sell.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
April 26, 2012
Anyone who understands gold’s historic role will grasp the importance of the argument behind extra bank leverage. Direct ownership of bullion by a bank is superior to holding the fiat money issued by a central bank.
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By Adrian Ash |
April 24, 2012
Exploding the money supply can't be guaranteed to destroy the value of cash, as Japan's experience over the last decade shows. But crushing the purchasing power of people's income and savings is a more certain power for central bankers to summon up than anything else.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
April 23, 2012
For the very first time in our history all money, all currencies, are now fiat. The US dollar used to be gold backed and it was the rock to which all of the world's currencies were anchored. Our 41-year experiment with paper money is almost over.
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 19, 2012
Resource investors are always looking for the next untapped region and president and founder of the Cambodian Association of Mining and Exploration Companies thinks he has found it.
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By Ron Hera |
April 16, 2012
The history of the US dollar is closely linked to US involvement in a series of wars. The loss of value in the dollar caused by excessive expansion of the money supply, together with rising demand for raw materials, has led to permanently higher global commodity prices.
