Money Is Never Neutral

Jul 13th, 2012 | By Detlev Schlichter | Category: Featured, Macro Economics

Every monetary stimulus creates winners and losers. And it should be no surprise that monetary policy would finally end in a cul-de-sac. It only surprises those who share the mainstream's simplistic view of monetary stimulus. Phrases such as "the ECB is attempting to unlock the flow of credit in the ...read more

Tags: inflation, monetary stimulus
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Is Gold In A Bubble, Part II

Jun 5th, 2012 | By Detlev Schlichter | Category: Featured, Gold

Gold in the 1970s We start in 1970 when the gold price was massively undervalued. The golden shackles had come off in the US domestically 37 years earlier when relentless paper money printing had commenced, albeit at first at a somewhat moderate pace. However, in blatant disregard for economic reality, the official ...read more

Tags: central bank, Gold, inflation, purchasing power protection, Volcker
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Is Gold In A Bubble?

Jun 4th, 2012 | By Detlev Schlichter | Category: Featured, Gold

As the gold-sceptics keep reminding us, gold pays no coupon and no dividend, it does not offer a running yield, so traditional measures of ‘fair value' do not apply. But gold is money, and just as the paper ticket in your wallet does not pay interest, neither does gold. Gold is ...read more

Tags: dollar, fiat money, Gold, gold bubble, inflation, purchasing power protection
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Forget Retirement And Retirement Savings

May 4th, 2012 | By Jeff Berwick | Category: Featured, Personal Investing

Retirement is a marketing construct. You've been sold a bill of goods for the last few decades of your life. You've been told that nation-states, democracy and socialism are good. You've been told our monetary system prevents instability. And -- while the government and central banks put your unborn children or ...read more

Tags: inflation, Ponzi scheme, retirement, social security, tax sheltered retirement plans
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Bernanke’s Pet Peeve: The Gold Standard

May 3rd, 2012 | By Gary North | Category: Featured, Gold

Ben Bernanke journeyed across town to give a 4-part seminar to 30 undergraduates at George Washington University. This was clearly a public relations stunt. Why would the head of the world's most powerful central bank lecture to 30 undergraduates? This was not quite the equivalent of George W. Bush reading "My ...read more

Tags: ben bernanke, central banking, exchange rate, gold standard, inflation
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Why Gold Is Still My Favorite Asset

Apr 24th, 2012 | By Detlev Schlichter | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing

I hate to give personal investment advice. So please do me a favour and do not treat the following as investment advice. I am expressing my personal opinion here. I do so with honesty and conviction, without a personal agenda – I am not trying to sell you anything. Nobody knows ...read more

Tags: central banking, Gold, inflation, money
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Is a Mortgage a Better Inflation Hedge Than Gold and Silver?

Mar 13th, 2012 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Featured, Macro Economics

Sell Your Gold. Buy a House. Put Nickels in It. Normally we would not look upon buying a single family house for personal use as an investment. But these are strange times we live in. Why don’t we consider a single-family house for personal use an investment? In a completely free market (and ...read more

Tags: free markets, inflation, precious metals, single-family house
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The Fed’s Newest Trick

Mar 8th, 2012 | By Jeffrey Tucker | Category: Featured, Macro Economics

Gary Gibson, Introduction... Does the Fed's latest colorfully named plan amount to anything more than money printing and legerdemain? Will it not punish savers and interfere with oh so vital capital accumulation? Jeffrey Tucker is on hand to take a look in today's feature article. And then we get real in today's Parting ...read more

Tags: Federal Reserve, inflation, money creation, reverse repo
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The Fall of the Roman Denarius

Mar 2nd, 2012 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Economics, Featured, Precious Metals

Gary Gibson, Introduction... Inflation is a tax. It's just a very sneaky one. The fine folks over at Economic Collapse Blog explained it so well that we thought we'd share it with you... "It is a continual tax on every single dollar that you own. As your money sits in the bank, it ...read more

Tags: currency debasement, denarius, inflation, Roman Empire
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Infinite Stupidity

Nov 14th, 2011 | By Detlev Schlichter | Category: Featured

"The unlimited resources" of the European Central Bank (ECB) are quickly becoming the new magic mantra in political commentary and financial market analysis, now that the bigger euro-dominos are beginning to wobble, and everybody realizes that nobody has the firepower to bail out Italy or to "recapitalize" (i.e., bail out ...read more

Tags: central bank, ECB, inflation, monetizing debt
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