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By Nick Barisheff |
April 16, 2013
After gold lost $84 an ounce last Friday, we can conclude the beneficiaries were not gold investors who panicked and sold, but rather those who are fighting to preserve the reputation of the U.S. dollar and the fiat currency model that underpins the global economy.
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By Mark Motive, Alex Alibi |
March 6, 2013
In the investing world, you can take a three-month view, a three-year view or a 30-year view. One person looking at one asset class might have a different forecast depending on the time horizon he is considering. In this article, I will look at gold through a 30-year lens.
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By Axel Merk |
January 16, 2013
While the introduction of a trillion-dollar coin has been shrugged off as nonsense, there are plenty of nonsensical concepts employed in our monetary system. Here we’ll shed light on a few of them.
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By Paul Tustain |
January 10, 2013
Observers of fractional reserve banking have noticed that your deposit into a bank can cause the bank to offer new loans well above and beyond the size of your deposit. Those watchers often object on the grounds that this is new money.
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By Gabriel M. Mueller |
November 21, 2012
Call it wishful thinking, but a small part of me thinks that the real reason why German officials are starting to ask tough questions about their gold reserves is because they are losing confidence in our monetary system.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
November 5, 2012
What is worrying about this kite-flying exercise is that the IMF lends it credence. We should be doubly worried if the IMF is using it as a means to gauge reactions before imposing the ideas contained therein on an unfortunate client state. Worried, but perhaps not overly surprised.
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By Félix Moreno de la Cova |
October 26, 2012
The claim that the gold standard exaggerates economic fluctuations is based on an incorrect understanding of the business cycle and especially, since it is most often cited, the 1920s post-First World War gold exchange standard.
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By Axel Merk |
October 17, 2012
Doubling down on QE3, the Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Bernanke tells China and Brazil: allow your currencies to appreciate. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to conclude that Bernanke wants the US dollar to fall.
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
August 14, 2012
For most of recorded history, the preponderance of people held whatever savings they managed to accrue in the form of physical coins. A gold or silver coin is the hardest form of money to degrade.
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By Jeff Berwick |
May 8, 2012
It must be "Bash Gold" week on the CNBS network. Warren Buffet has been leading the charge by talking down the precious metal. Buffet’s partner in crime Charlie Munger recently pitched in. And Bill Gates went on CNBS Monday to try and explain the error in investing in the barbarous...