Commentators predicted the rules of Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket in price. This research series provides our analysis of these claims
There is sometimes a tendency to confuse ends and means. For example, in traveling through an airport there is extensive inspection of passengers. Before you are allowed to board an airplane, you must go through a process that is intrusive...
This is a special guest post by Ross Norman, CEO of Metals Daily. This article on Basel III and Gold is republished here with Ross's permission.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, said Mark Twain. So...
The prices of the metals hit their lows by the end of April. Gold traded for around $1,685, and is now over $1,900. Silver was around $24, and is now over $28. These are big moves (though of course nothing...
Last year, Monetary Metals’ CEO Keith Weiner wrote an article debunking the idea (popular at the time) that Basel III regulations would send gold’s price to the moon. The focus of that piece was on the investors and individuals who own...
One of our colleagues recently wrote an open letter to Ted Butler. The point was that Monetary Metals gold leasing is a different kind of activity than what is called “gold leasing” in the institutional bullion market. We make it...
A number of commentators have predicted that the rules of the Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket (no, this article is not about our view that gold does not go up, that it’s the dollar going down,...
