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Fiat money and gold

21/10/2016(0)
It is time to revisit the Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ), which totals US dollar money deposited in the banking system, the commercial banks’ money on deposit at the Fed ... Read More
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More Good News For Gold Bugs: The Bottom Is Getting Closer

18/10/2016(0)
In the latest gold and silver commitment of traders (COT) report (click here for an explanation of what this report involves), paper players made big strides in bringing the ... Read More
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The Total Amount Of Debt In The World Just Hit A Record $152,000,000,000,000 (152 Trillion)

17/10/2016(0)
If anyone ever asks you how much debt there is in the world, now you will know the answer. According to the IMF, the total amount of debt around ... Read More
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Oil prices rise, but doubts grow over Russia’s deal commitment

12/10/2016(0)
Crude oil prices returned to the positive zone in early Asian trade Wednesday, but the growth momentum has slowed on heightened uncertainty over Russia’s willingness to cut production even ... Read More
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World Gone Mad, Part 2: “Perpetual Preferred”

10/10/2016(0)
Towards the end of a credit bubble, ideas that might have seemed crazy in more boring times are not just accepted but embraced by investors desperate to keep the ... Read More
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Trade deals – a global issue

07/10/2016(0)
The annual Conservative Party conference commenced last Sunday, and the media focus was mostly about the Government’s stance on Brexit. This is hardly surprising, because Mrs May is being ... Read More
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World Gone Mad, Part 1: “Huge Demand” To Lend Italy Money For 50 Years

06/10/2016(0)
    You read that right. Not only is Italy selling 50-year bonds, but people are lining up buy them. Italy’s first 50-year bond sale had huge demand (Reuters) ... Read More
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America is on a slippery slope

30/09/2016(0)
It hadn’t happened before, at least not since US presidents started visiting foreign countries after the Second World War. In early September, when President Obama landed at Hangzhoi for ... Read More
currencies

The root cause of monetary confusion

23/09/2016(0)
Arguments about sound and unsound money often degenerate into a them-and-us dispute, with the supporters of unsound money casting sound money proponents as impractical out-of-date libertarian weirdos. Supporting one ... Read More
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Recent Upgrade by S&P: What does it really mean?

22/09/2016(0)
The first long-awaited upgrade of the Cyprus economy by the rating agencies for this Fall has finally arrived with the recent upgrade from S&P by one notch (from BB- ... Read More
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