A new white paper resolving Gibson’s paradox is posted on GoldMoney’s site, here:
https://www.goldmoney.com/
The full ramifications will take further analysis and thinking, but the immediate implications appear to be:
* It shows that in a free market commodity prices rise and fall in phase with interest rates, and not, as commonly supposed, the opposite way round.
* It causes us to rethink the relationship between borrowers and savers. In a free market it is borrowers that set the rate.
* It undermines the quantity theory of money, as originally proposed by David Ricardo in 1809 and further refined by Irving Fisher and Milton Friedman.
* It throws into doubt the whole basis of central bank monetary policy.
* It is wholly consistent with Say’s law, reaffirming its validity.
I strongly urge everyone to read it.
Regards
Alasdair Macleod | Head of Research
