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How I Own My Gold

How I Own My Gold Those who own gold often argue how to best own it. I encourage anyone holding gold to assess the pros and cons of different choices of gold ownership to make an educated rather than emotional decision. Let me explain. I commissioned the above cartoon back in 2011 in response to […]

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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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Global Debt Bubble Hits New All Time High – One Quadrillion Reasons To Buy Gold

Global Debt Bubble Hits New All Time High – One Quadrillion Reasons To Buy Gold – Global debt bubble hits new all time high – over $237 trillion – Global debt increased 10% or $21 tn in 2017 to nearly a quarter quadrillion USD – Increase in debt equivalent to United States’ ballooning national debt […]

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“In the long run, owning gold and silver is going to be, by far, the smartest thing one could have done.”

“In the long run, owning gold and silver is going to be, by far, the smartest thing one could have done.” It’s Friday the 13th, and after an almost perfect week, things are looking bumpy again. Eric stops by to calm our frazzled nerves on this, the unluckiest day. In this chat you’ll hear: […]

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Hot War and Cold Markets

Hot War and Cold Markets This is turning into a comedy. A black comedy, for sure, but still. As both the Skripal novichok ‘poisoning’ case in Britain and the ‘chemical attack’ in Douma, Syria fall flat on their faces on a total and absolute lack of evidence, it’s becoming clear that western ‘authorities’ are not […]

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Why A Dollar Collapse Is Inevitable

Why A Dollar Collapse Is Inevitable “Naturally, the smooth termination of the gold-exchange standard, the restoration of the gold standard, and supplemental and interim measures that might be called for, in particular with a view to organizing international credit on this new basis, will have to be deliberately agreed upon between countries, in particular those […]

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The Case For a Gold Currency Part 2: Wages and Growth: Higher Under Classical Gold Standard

THE CASE FOR A GOLD CURRENCY PART 2: WAGES AND GROWTH: HIGHER UNDER CLASSICAL GOLD STANDARD When the world was on the gold standard, the fastest rate of economic growth happened between 1870 and 1914, when the gold standard was suspended in Europe because of WWI. Not only that, but blue collared workers then saw […]

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The Case for a Gold Currency: Part 1

THE CASE FOR A GOLD CURRENCY: PART 1 The gold standard is a system where the nation’s money supply is determined by the supply of gold that is mined. Over time we have had different types of gold standard economies and countries have even suspended the gold standard during wars (e.g.: WWI). Until WWI the […]

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MARKET MELTDOWN CONTINUES: Gold & Silver Prices Begin To Disconnect

MARKET MELTDOWN CONTINUES: Gold & Silver Prices Begin To Disconnect As the BLOOD continues to run on Wall Street, gold and silver were the few assets trading in the green today. As I have mentioned in past articles and interviews, investors need to get used to this sort of trading activity. Even though the Dow […]

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The yuan-oil future and gold

The yuan-oil future and gold “There can be little doubt that the introduction of the yuan-denominated oil future has been a major strategic step for China.” Regular readers of Goldmoney’s research will be aware that we were among the first to alert western financial markets that China would introduce a new oil futures contract priced […]

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Money as a Measuring Stick

Money as a Measuring Stick Imagine if the world’s metre sticks all grew or shrunk a bit each year. That would make for a confusing system of weights and measures, wouldn’t it? Well, that is exactly what happens with money. We have been measuring the world around us for thousands of years. Units like feet […]

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Russia Stockpiles Gold, But Why?

Russia Stockpiles Gold, But Why? The US’s overhang of debt and looming trade war is worrisome on many levels as the value of the dollar keeps decreasing and the national debt spiraling. So, what should we make of the fact that the Central Bank of Russia has been steadily amassing vast gold reserves since 2015? […]

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Peak Gold? No: Peak Gold Production? Perhaps

Peak Gold? No: Peak Gold Production? Perhaps Some claim we have reached peak gold. It depends on what one means by the term. Perhaps we have reached peak production. Last September, Bloomberg reported We’re Reaching Peak Gold. The world may have already produced the most gold in a year it ever will, according to the […]

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Russia Is Hoarding Gold At The Fastest Pace In 12 Years

Russia Is Hoarding Gold At The Fastest Pace In 12 Years De-dollarization is accelerating… Russia is adding gold to its reserves at the fastest pace in 12 years …and dumping US Treasuries at the fastest pace since 2011. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has been increasing its holdings of gold every month since March […]

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Four Charts: Debt, Defaults and Bankruptcies To See Higher Gold

Four Charts: Debt, Defaults and Bankruptcies To See Higher Gold 20, March – $8.8B Sprott Inc. sees higher gold on massive consumer debt, defaults & bankruptcies – Rising and record U.S. debt load may cause financial stress, weaken dollar and see gold go higher – Massive government and consumer debt eroding benefits of wage growth (see chart) […]

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