Holding Gold & Silver is Holding Wealth
Why Are People Now Selling Their Silver? PLUS Gold / Silver Update by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals This week, the prices of the metals fell further, with gold -$18 and silver -$0.73. On May 28, the price of silver hit...
How Is Negative Interest Possible? plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is now...
Asset Inflation vs. Consumer Goods Inflation plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals A paradigm is a mental framework. It has a both a positive pressure and a negative filter. It structures one’s thoughts, orients them in...
All History is History of Class Conflict plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Everyone must ask himself the question. Do you want the world to move to an honest money system, or do you just want...
Deflation Is Everywhere—If You Know Where to Look plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals At a shopping mall recently, we observed an interesting deal at Sketchers. If you buy two pairs of shoes, the second is...
The Economic Singularity plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We have recently written several essays about the fallacious concept of Gross Domestic Product. Among GDP’s several fatal flaws, it goes up when capital is converted to...
I Know Usury When I See It plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals “I know it, when I see it.” This phrase was first used by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, in a case of...
Obvious Capital Consumption plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We have spilled many electrons on the topic of capital consumption. Still, this is a very abstract topic and we think many people still struggle to picture...
The Fake Economy plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Folks in the liberty movement often say that the economy is fake. But this does not persuade anyone. It’s just preaching to the choir! We hope that...
How to Fix GDP plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Last week, we looked at the idea of a national balance sheet, as a better way to measure the economy than GDP (which is production +...
More Squeeze, Less Juice – Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We have been writing on the flaws in GDP: that it is no measure of the economy, because it looks only at cash and not the...
GDP Begets More GDP (Positive Feedback) plus Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Last week, we discussed the fundamental flaw in GDP. GDP is a perfect tool for central planning tools. But for measuring the economy, not...
What Gets Measures Gets Improved, Gold / Silver Report by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals Let’s start with Frederic Bastiat’s 170-year old parable of the broken window. A shopkeeper has a broken window. The shopkeeper is, of course, upset at the...
The Elephant in the Gold Room by Keith Weiner for Monetary-Metals We will start this off with a pet peeve. Too often, one is reading something about gold. It starts off well enough, discussing problems with the dollar or the...
