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Does China Have Enough Gold to Move Toward Hard Currency?
Does China Have Enough Gold to Move Toward Hard Currency? Are the Chinese Keynesian? We can be reasonably certain that Chinese government officials approaching middle age have been heavily westernised through their education. Nowhere is this likely to matter more than in the fields of finance and economics. In these disciplines there is perhaps a […]
The Broken Clocks’ Minute
The Broken Clocks’ Minute Sometimes the reasons you’re wrong turn out to be the reasons you’re right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Old Wall Street adage Anyone who has consistently sounded cautionary or outright bearish notes during the last nine years of relentlessly rising equity markets has been cast aside. Wall […]
“But, it’s not backed by anything?”
“But, it’s not backed by anything?” One of the most common arguments against Bitcoin is that it is not backed by anything. That it’s price is just speculation. But what does it mean for an asset or a currency to be backed by something in the first place? To find this out, we first need […]
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis”
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis” Crashing stocks, bonds, real estate & currency all at once? Mike Maloney, monetary historian and founder of GoldSilver.com, has just released two new chapters of his excellent Hidden Secrets Of Money video series. In producing the series, Maloney has reviewed several thousand years of monetary history and has […]
The Credit Cycle is on the Turn
THE CREDIT CYCLE IS ON THE TURN 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 similarities with the post-Bretton Woods era of the 1970s to give us some guidance as to how markets are likely […]
The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention
The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention Blind faith in the U.S. dollar is perhaps one of the most crippling disabilities economists have in gauging our economic future. Historically speaking, fiat currencies are essentially animals with very short lives, and world reserve currencies are even more […]
Mexico’s Central Bank Just Broke with the War on Cash
Mexico’s Central Bank Just Broke with the War on Cash Motivated by inflation? A strange thing just happened in Mexico. The Bank of Mexico (Banxico), announced that it is considering launching a 2,000 peso note (ca. $105), double the highest denomination note currently in circulation. It’s also considering doing away with Mexico’s lowest denomination 20 […]
We Are All Lab Rats In The Largest-Ever Monetary Experiment In Human History
We Are All Lab Rats In The Largest-Ever Monetary Experiment In Human History And how do things usually work out for the rat? There are ample warning signs that another serious financial crisis is on the way. These warning signs are being soundly ignored by the majority, though. Perhaps understandably so. After 10 years of […]
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game Inflation, wealth redistribution, and the subtle art of misdirection The Federal Reserve is a key component of the US government’s wealth redistribution apparatus. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The […]
Currency Exchange Value Dynamics
CURRENCY EXCHANGE VALUE DYNAMICS In a recent article I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the future. The key to understanding why this may be so lies in human […]
