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Artificial intelligence, or can machines think?
May 11th, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is seen as both a boon and a threat. It uses our personal data to influence our lives without us realising it. It is used by social media to draw our attention to things we ...
Economics 101: Who Sets Prices?
April 26th, 2018
Since the advent of nineteenth century socialism, politicians and economists in the centre ground have argued for a balanced approach, where vital services are provided by the state, and capitalism is left to provide the rest. Vital services ...
Why A Dollar Collapse Is Inevitable
April 13th, 2018
“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 ...
The yuan-oil future and gold
April 3rd, 2018
“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 ...
Oil prices reversed earlier gains on Monday
March 26th, 2018
Oil prices reversed earlier gains on Monday as concerns of a looming trade dispute between the United States and China weighed on global markets. The possibility of a full-blown trade war between the United States and China battered Asian ...
The Death Of Democracy
March 23rd, 2018
Anyone who thinks democracy doesn’t matter may be in for a rude shock later this year, when we know the result of America’s mid-term elections. The Deep State is on course to take control of Congress. If this happens, ...
The egregious errors of static statistics
March 22nd, 2018
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, ...
Oil-Yuan Futures To Start Later In The Month – Implications For Gold – Video
March 6th, 2018
In this short video, Goldmoney’s Head of Research, Alasdair Macleod, shares his thoughts on the Oil-Yuan Futures and the implications for gold. How recent developments in China’s oil payments in yuan link in to the gold market. ...
Currency exchange value dynamics
March 2nd, 2018
In a recent article I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the ...
A Roman lesson on inflation
March 1st, 2018
“While it is the duty of the citizen to support the state, it is not the duty of the state to support the citizen” – President Grover Cleveland The point President Cleveland made back in the 1880s was that ...
