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The Once and Future Unit of Finance – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

December 20, 2018

The Once and Future Unit of Finance – Precious Metals Supply and Demand Sally Forth and Speculate on my Behalf! Last week, the price of gold was down ten bucks and silver four cents. Someone on Twitter demanded if we didn’t find it odd that the biggest sovereign debt bubble has managed to inflate a […]

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A Golden Renaissance – Precious Metals Supply & Demand

November 27, 2018

A Golden Renaissance – Precious Metals Supply & Demand Battles for Civilization A major theme of my work — and raison d’etre of Monetary Metals — is fighting to prevent collapse. Civilization is under assault on all fronts. Battling the barbarians at the gate… [PT] There is the freedom of speech battle, with the forces of darkness […]

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Measures of Value – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

October 25, 2018

Measures of Value – Precious Metals Supply and Demand Aiming for Knowledge and Better Decision-Making The price of yellow metal went up nine bucks last week. And the price of silver three rose cents, which is back to where it was two weeks earlier. We need to rant, and promise to tie it back to […]

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Why the Fed Denied the Narrow Bank

September 18, 2018

WHY THE FED DENIED THE NARROW BANK It’s not every day that a clear example showing the horrors of central planning comes along—the doublethink, the distortions, and the perverse incentives. It’s not every year that such an example occurs for monetary central planning. One came to the national attention this week. A company called TNB […]

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In Praise of a Genuine Gold (Not Gold-Backed) Bond

August 20, 2018

In Praise of a Genuine Gold (Not Gold-Backed) Bond Buffet dismissed gold because it pays no interest. But what if there was a genuine gold bond that paid interest in gold? Keith Weiner at Monetary Metals asks Who Would Invest in a Gold Bond? Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet famously dismissed gold. “Gold has two […]

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A Dire Warning

A Dire Warning Let’s return to our ongoing series on the destruction of capital, and how to identify the signs. Steve Saville posted a thoughtful article this week entitled The “Productivity of Debt” Myth. His article provides a good opportunity to add some additional thoughts. We have written quite a lot on this topic. Indeed, […]

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Wealth-Destroying Zombies

WEALTH-DESTROYING ZOMBIES The hot topic in monetary economics today (hah, if it’s not an oxymoron to say these terms together!) is whither interest rates. The Fed in its recent statement said the risk is balanced (the debunked notion of a tradeoff between unemployment and rising consumer prices should have been tossed on the ash heap […]

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Getting High on Bubbles

Getting High on Bubbles Back in the drug-soaked, if not halcyon, days known at the sexual and drug revolution—the 1960’s—many people were on a quest for the “perfect trip”, and the “perfect hit of acid” (the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD). We will no doubt generate some hate mail for saying this, but we don’t […]

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Slaves to Government Debt Paper, Report 25 Mar 2018

Slaves to Government Debt Paper, Report 25 Mar 2018 Picture, if you will, a group of slaves owned by a cruel man. Most of them are content, but one says to the others, “I will defy the Master.” While his statement would superficially appear to yearn towards freedom, it does not. It betrays that this […]

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Inflation and Gold – Precious Metals Supply and Demand

November 21, 2017

Inflation and Gold – Precious Metals Supply and Demand Reasons to Buy Gold The price of gold went up $19, and the price of silver 42 cents. The price action occurred on Monday, Wednesday and Friday though so far, only the first two price jumps reversed. We promise to take a look at the intraday […]

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Falling Interest Rates

October 25, 2017

Falling Interest Rates Amassing Unproductive Debt Last week, we discussed the marginal productivity of debt. This is how much each newly-borrowed dollar adds to GDP. And ever since the interest rate began its falling trend in 1981, marginal productivity of debt has tightly correlated with interest. The lower the interest rate, the less productive additional […]

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The Falling Productivity of Debt

October 19, 2017

The Falling Productivity of Debt Discounting the Present Value of Future Income Last week, we discussed the ongoing fall of dividend, and especially earnings, yields. This Report is not a stock letter, and we make no stock market predictions. We talk about this phenomenon to make a different point. The discount rate has fallen to […]

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Hidden Forces of Economics

August 29, 2017

Hidden Forces of Economics Waiting for the Flood We have noticed a proliferation of pundits, newsletter hawkers, and even mainstream market analysts focusing on one aspect of the bitcoin market. Big money, institutional money, public markets money, is soon to flood into bitcoin. Or so they say. A weekly chart of bitcoin – it actually […]

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Bad Ideas About Money and Bitcoin

August 22, 2017

Bad Ideas About Money and Bitcoin How We Got Used to Fiat Money Most false or irrational ideas about money are not new. For example, take the idea that government can just fix the price of one monetary asset against another. Some people think that we can have a gold standard by such a decree […]

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Bitcoin, Gold and Silver

Bitcoin, Gold and Silver Precious Metals Supply and Demand Report That’s it. It’s the final straw. One of the alternative investing newsletters had a headline that screamed, “Bitcoin Is About to Soar, But You Must Act by August 1 to Get In”. It was missing only the call to action “call 1-800-BIT-COIN now! That number […]

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