Holding Gold & Silver is Holding Wealth
Central Planning Vs. Economics plus Gold / Silver Update by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We have spilled barrels of electronic ink, making the point that central banks are wreaking havoc. They hurt the poor, the middle class, and the rich....
Open Letter to John Taft plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Dear Mr. Taft: I eagerly read your piece Warriors for Opportunity on Wednesday, as I often do about pieces that argue that capitalism is not...
The End of an Epoch plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden...
Money and Prices Are a Dynamic System plus Gold / Silver Report The basic idea behind the Quantity Theory of Money could be stated as: too much money supply is chasing too little goods supply, so prices rise. We have...
Raising Rates to Fight Inflation plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Physics students study mechanical systems in which pulleys are massless and frictionless. Economics students study monetary systems in which rising prices are everywhere and always...
The Perversity of Negative Interest by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Today, we want to say two things about negative interest rates. The first is really simple. Anyone who believes in a theory of interest that says “the savers demand interest...
What’s the Price of Gold in the Gold Standard plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Let’s revisit a point that came up in passing, in the Silver Doctors’ interview of Keith. At around 35:45, he begins...
Targeting nGDP Targeting plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Not too long ago, we wrote about the so called Modern Monetary so called Theory (MMT). It is not modern, and it is not a theory. We...
Bitcoin Myths plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Keith gave a keynote address—the only speaker with an hour to cover his topic—at the Gold and Alternative Investments Conference in Sydney on Saturday. Said topic was the...
Wealth Accumulation Is Becoming Impossible plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We talk a lot about the falling interest rate, the too-low interest rate, the near-zero interest rate, the zero interest rate, and the negative interest...
Motte and Bailey Fallacy plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals This week, we will delve into something really abstract. Not like monetary economics, which is so simple even a caveman can do it. A Clever Ruse...
A Wealth Tax Consumes Capital plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals It seems one cannot make a name for one’s self on the Left, unless one has a proposal to tax wealth. Academics like Tomas Piketty...
Flipping Homes, Consuming Capital plus Gold / Silver Update by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals First, let’s look at the case of Timothy Housetrader. Tim has a small two-bedroom house. Next door, his neighbor Ian Idjit, owns a four-bedroom house which...
Treasury Bond Backwardation plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Something happened in the credit market this week. A Barron’s article about it began: “There have been disruptions in the plumbing of U.S. markets this week. While...
