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Opposing Monetary Directions
“Real estate is the future of the monetary system,” declares a real estate bug.
Does this make any sense? We would ask him this.
“OK how will houses be borrowed...
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Breaking Down the Dollar Monetary System
If you ask most people, “what is money?” they will answer that money is the generally accepted medium of exchange. If you ask Google Images, it will...
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Prices move up and down, in the restless churn of our irredeemable monetary system. There are several schools of thought whose theories attempt to describe, if not predict, the next...
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Many voices in the gold community are making a simple point. Look at the prices of oil, copper, and other commodities. They are skyrocketing. The mainstream explanation—shared by Keynesians, Monetarists, and many...
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Can you remember back to when you were two or three years old? Toddlers often think that there are little people inside the TV (or maybe this was only true...
The price of silver dropped a dollar, or over 4% on Wednesday. Some voices in the precious metals press want you to think that there is only one conceivable cause. We should coin a term for this form of logical...
Since last week’s Report, the price action has been downwards.
The price of gold dropped about $50, and that of silver $1.35. The gold-silver ratio rose to its highest level since the end of 2020.
Technical chartists are either throwing in the...
This time, we start with the gold-silver ratio. Let’s revisit something we said on 23 August:
“…the supply and demand fundamentals of silver are stronger here than they have been since the Covid crisis.
… physical silver is scarcer than gold.”
This corresponds...
Picture, if you will, a government that deliberately inflicts bad policy on the people. I know this sounds crazy, and could never happen, but please bear with me.
Suppose the government criminalizes hiring someone who produces less than an arbitrary threshold....
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A few recent articles bring to the public’s awareness that wealthy investors are preferring not to sell their assets, and thereby pay capital gains taxes. Instead, they borrow against them,...
