Should the Gold Price Keep Up with Inflation?
byThe popular belief is that gold is a good hedge against inflation. Owning gold will protect you from rising prices. Is that true? Most…
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Free Markets Do Not Need Negative Interest Rates
byMartin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, seems to have forgotten the nature of interest rates and their coordinating…
Benn Steil and Emma Smith’s Global Monetary Tracker
byEmma Smith and I have created a new web-based tool for tracking monetary policy developments around the world. The CFR Global Monetary Policy Tracker…
Interest rates and gold
byIt is commonly assumed that the gold price and interest rates move in opposite directions. In other words, a tendency towards higher interest rates…
Mises.org: And So It Begins… Negative Interest Rates Trickle Down in Japan
byThe negative interest rates imposed by the Bank of Japan have begun to make their way into the Japanese banking system. Japanese trust banks…
Guessing the future without Say’s law
byWith Japanese and Eurozone interest rates becoming increasingly negative, and the Fed backing off from at least some of the planned increases in the…
Zero Hedge: Currency Debasement & The Death Of Roman Emperors
byCorrelation does not necessarily imply causation. In other words, just because two sets of data may follow a similar pattern, it does not mean…
Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot
byZero Hedge published an article on Canadian Bullion Services (CBS) last week. Other sites ran similar articles. The common thread through these articles, and…
Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us
byDespite zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP) and multiple quantitative easing programs — whereby the central bank buys large quantities of assets while leaving interest rates at practically…
They Broke the Silver Fix
byEditor’s Note: Keith is testifying today before the Arizona Senate Financial Institutions Committee on a gold legal tender bill, which he also helped draft. There is…