Home » Posts tagged 'gold' (Page 34)

Tag Archives: gold

Olduvai
Click on image to purchase

Content

Olduvai III: Catacylsm
Click on image to purchase

Post categories

Post Archives by Category

Why we need to beat Russia

Why we need to beat Russia 250,000 capitalists read the Financial Times, and it has been our undertaking to chronicle our understanding of capitalism via our book The Philosophy of Capitalism. A USA led team has answered the question ‘What is The Nature of the Monetary System?’ The Monetary system has three layers – the […]

Continue Reading →

The Two Worlds of Precious Metals: East and West – Jeff Nielson

The Two Worlds of Precious Metals: East and West – Jeff Nielson For five thousand years, gold and silver have been humanity’s premier form of money; real money, not the faux-money manufactured by our central banks. During that same period of time, these metals have been our premier instruments of wealth preservation and therefore our “safe havens.” […]

Continue Reading →

Will Gold and Silver Become the Underground Currencies of the Future?

Will Gold and Silver Become the Underground Currencies of the Future?  QUESTION: Martin … the reasoning behind goldbugs … advising people to buy gold to thwart the cashless society that govts will soon impose on us all.  Do you think gold and silver will become the underground currency of the alternative economy as people try to get around the […]

Continue Reading →

Canada Sold All Its Gold Reserves – Who Will be Next?

Canada Sold All Its Gold Reserves – Who Will be Next? ​Question: Hello Martin, I saw a couple of days ago that Canada seems to have sold all its gold. http://www.fin.gc.ca/n16/16-030-eng.asp Is it just a way to find short-term easy money? Or is it part of a global process to sell any tangible asset that the […]

Continue Reading →

Gold is the only sound money

Gold is the only sound money This article notes that the technical situation for the gold price has sharply improved, to the evident surprise of many mainstream analysts. It discusses possible reasons behind the turnaround, and implications for the future. The technical situation is shown in the chart below. A “golden cross”, with the 55 […]

Continue Reading →

BlackRock Suspends ETF Issuance Due To “Surging Demand For Gold”

BlackRock Suspends ETF Issuance Due To “Surging Demand For Gold” BlackRock’s Gold ETF (IAU) has seen fund inflows every day in 2016 (no outflows at all) and with the stock trading above its NAV for most of the year, the world’s largest asset manager has made a significant decision: *BLACKROCK SAYS ISSUANCE OF GOLD TRUST […]

Continue Reading →

Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot

Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot  Accustomed to Speculation Zero Hedge published an article on Canadian Bullion Services (CBS) last week. Other sites ran similar articles. The common thread through these articles, and in the user comments section, is that CBS is committing criminal fraud. Or, if not, then it’s a conspiracy by […]

Continue Reading →

It’s Official: Canada Has Sold All Of Its Gold Reserves

It’s Official: Canada Has Sold All Of Its Gold Reserves One month ago, when looking at the latest Canadian official international reserves, we noticed something strange: Canada had sold nearly half of its gold reserves in one month. According to the February data, total Canadian gold reserves stood at 1.7 tonnes. That was just 0.1 per […]

Continue Reading →

Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard

ONWARD TO A GOLDEN AGE: THE WASHINGTON POST’S MATT O’BRIEN ATTACKS TED CRUZ FOR SUPPORTING THE GOLD STANDARD Matt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist ofThe Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a “rules-based monetary supply, ideally tied to gold.” O’Brien’s reactionary blast was fully expected and somewhat […]

Continue Reading →

Pop in gold x USDX reaching a critical point

Pop in gold x USDX reaching a critical point Here at the World Complex I have been using gold x USDX (i.e., the gold price in US dollars per ounce multiplied by the US dollar index, divided by 100) as a proxy for the value of gold mined by companies not operating in the US. Assuming that […]

Continue Reading →

Gold Now?

Gold Now?  Gold never changes; it’s the world around it that does. Why is it that we see a renewed interest in gold now? And more importantly, should investors buy this precious metal? Key attributes in a ‘changing world’ that may be relevant to the price of gold are fear and interest rates. Let’s examine these: Gold & […]

Continue Reading →

Venezuela Could Be The Future of Western Civilization

Venezuela Could Be The Future of Western Civilization If anyone wants to see where western civilization is headed they need only to look at Venezuela today. The Bolivar has gone from 6.3 per dollar to 1,000 per dollar in the past few years. Last year farmers were ordered to turn over certain crops to the government […]

Continue Reading →

Your Do-It-Yourself Page Financial Armageddon Story

YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF FRONT PAGE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON STORY “The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality by accumulating information where “actually” none exists.. A typical stock market report looks like this: Stock X increased because.. Index Y crashed due to.. […]

Continue Reading →

The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come”

The World Is Hoarding Gold: “This Was Just A Taste Of What’s To Come” Earlier this month, as retail investors lost confidence in the global economy and broader stock markets, an air of panic began to set in. Reports indicate the lines were literally forming around the block at gold stores throughout London and elsewhere. It was, by […]

Continue Reading →

The Follies and Fallacies of Keynesian Economics

THE FOLLIES AND FALLACIES OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Eighty years go, on February 4, 1936, one of the most influential books of the last one hundred years was published, British economist, John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. With it was born what has become known as Keynesian Economics. Within less than a […]

Continue Reading →

Olduvai IV: Courage
Click on image to read excerpts

Olduvai II: Exodus
Click on image to purchase

Click on image to purchase @ FriesenPress