PhD, CEO & Founder Keith Weiner is a leading authority in the areas of gold, money, and credit and has made important contributions to the development of trading techniques founded upon the analysis of bid-ask spreads. He is the founder of DiamondWare, a software company sold to Nortel in 2008, and he currently serves as President of the Gold Standard Institute USA. He earned his PhD from the New Austrian School of Economics.*
On January 13th, 2026, CME Group changed the methodology used to set minimum performance bond requirements for precious metals futures. Gold and silver contracts moved from fixed dollar performance bonds to percentage-of-notional margin requirements. While this change may appear technical, its implications are...
Tariffs are in the air, with different industries and countries in President Trump’s crosshairs. On Thursday, August 7th he declared that imports from Switzerland would be subject to a 39% tariff.
That same day, a ruling letter from the US Customs...
I am writing this from home. But I spent five of the last six months of the year on the road. Most of that was overseas. In Reflections last year, I wrote about the gruelingness (yes, that’s a word coined as of...
I launched this business with a simple thesis. Interest will draw gold into the market; without interest, gold disappears into private hoards. The obvious reason is that people want a return. Without a return, they put their gold away and...