Gold – A Perfect Storm For 2019
Gold – A Perfect Storm For 2019 by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money This article is an overview of the principal factors likely to drive the gold price in 2019. It looks at the global factors that have developed in...
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Gold up, stocks slide
Gold up, stocks slide by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Gold and silver closed higher on the week in European trade this morning (Friday). Gold was up $18 at $1240.00, and silver up 35 cents at $14.51. The week saw very...
Why China should remove all trade tariffs
Why China should remove all trade tariffs by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege...
Comex open interest sharply lower
Comex open interest sharply lower by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Gold and silver are marginally lower on the week in early morning trade in London, with gold at $1223 and silver at $14.26. On Tuesday and Wednesday morning, prices dipped...
Brexit – where to from here?
Brexit – where to from here? by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money The deal has been agreed, subject to Parliament. Mrs May now has the uphill task of selling the deal to MPs. The overwhelming majority who have expressed an...
G20 and the financial war
G20 and the financial war by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money This weekend, the G20 nations meet at Buenos Aires. The most important issue will be America’s use of trade policy, ostensibly to bring an end to China’s unfair trade...
Alastair MacLeod & Chris Waltzek PhD (Podcast)
Alastair MacLeod & Chris Waltzek PhD Podcast – Radio GoldSeek Alasdair Highlights Head of Research at GoldMoney, Alasdair MacLeod makes his show debut on Thanksgiving Day, 2018. Listeners are encouraged to bookmark his weekly commentary at Goldmoney Insights. The Bank of...
Why interest rates are rising long-term
Why interest rates are rising long-term by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney There are growing expectations that the current cycle of rising interest rates will result in a deflationary recession. While a credit crisis is increasingly likely to evolve in the...
Don’t forget the December rally
Don’t forget the December rally by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney After a torrid Monday and Tuesday when gold tested the $1200 level and silver $14.00, precious metals rallied to close up on the week by early trade European-time this morning...
The psychology of systemic consensus
The psychology of systemic consensus by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney We are all too familiar with established views rejecting change. It has nothing to do with the facts. Officialdom’s mind is often firmly closed to all reason on the big...
Mid-terms and USD dominate
Mid-terms and USD dominate by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Precious metals were lower in quiet trade this week, which was dominated by the mid-term elections and a strong dollar. Gold was down $12 from last Friday’s close at $1220 in...
Prices When Gold Is Money
Prices When Gold Is Money by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney We are getting ahead of ourselves here. Gold does not circulate as money – yet. It might never do so. Perhaps the end of government currency, fiat money imposed on...
Option Shenanigans
Option Shenanigans By Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money Aside from a sharp dip on Wednesday, gold and silver have ended up more or less unchanged on the week. Gold was $1231, and silver up slightly at $14.78 at midday European time...
China’s monetary policy must change
China’s monetary policy must change By Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money The next credit crisis poses a major challenge to China’s manufacturing-based economy, because higher global and yuan interest rates are bound to have a devastating effect on Chinese business...
Market Report: Pushing at the upper boundary
Market Report: Pushing at the upper boundary by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money The bear squeeze continues, with the gold price now looking to break out of a bullish rising wedge pattern. Today (Friday), in early morning trade London time,...
The biggest of big pictures
The biggest of big pictures by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney I have had a request from Mrs Macleod to write down in simple terms what on earth is going on in the world, and why is it that I think...
Market Report: Bullion bought on the dip
Market Report: Bullion bought on the dip by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Gold consolidated its recent upward move this week. From last Friday’s close, it was unchanged at $1227 in early European trade this morning (Friday). Silver was down cents...
How Gibson’s paradox has been buried
How Gibson’s paradox has been buried By Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Until the 1970s, all recorded history showed that bond yields were tied to the general price level, not the rate of price inflation as commonly believed. However, since then,...
Is this a major turning point?
Is this a major turning point? by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney The period of consolidation for gold and silver appeared to have come to a dramatic end yesterday (Thursday) in heavy futures volume, with gold rising $30 and silver by...
The Credit Cycle Is On The Turn
The Credit Cycle Is On The Turn by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney We are on the verge of moving into an era of high interest rates, so markets will behave differently from any time since the early-1980s. There are enough...
A financial storm is brewing
A financial storm is brewing by Alasdair Macleod – Gold Money This week, gold rose slightly on balance, while silver maintained its climb out of a deep pit. In early-morning European trade today (Friday) gold was trading at $1199, up...
We should ditch GDP as a measure of economic activity
We should ditch GDP as a measure of economic activity by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney This article exposes the false economic concepts behind GDP, which is only the visible tip of a large iceberg of economic deceit. Describing an increase...
Fed Funds Rate increased 0.25%
Fed Funds Rate increased 0.25% by Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney This week, as was widely expected, the Fed raised it Fed Funds Rate by 0.25% to a target range of 2 to 2.5 per cent. Gold lost $18 following the...
Will Britain ever manage to leave “Hotel California”?
Will Britain ever manage to leave “Hotel California”? By Alasdair Macleod – GoldMoney Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back to the place where I was before “Relax” said the...
