Ah! Gold.
byGold’s swoon has triggered a good deal of schadenfreude, some subtle, some less so. It’s hardly a surprise after eleven years of gains and…
Alan Greenspan
Could the US Republican Party take gold seriously?
byVia the Financial Times and behind their paywall, we learn: The gold standard has returned to mainstream US politics for the first time in 30…
Alan Greenspan: Gold and Economic Freedom
byBefore Alan Greenspan stood down from his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul got him to sign a copy of Greenspan’s 1966 essay,…
Gold Bugs: Swivel-eyed, Mad-eyed, Lunatic Fringe?
byMany of the authors and Cobden Centre advisory board members (including some distinguished academics) would like to see money eventually re-rooted back into some…
The Death of Money
bySo the Bernanke Fed has finally launched its next great economic experiment, undertaking to buy some $600 billion in US Treasuries over the next…
Peter Schiff: Dollar hyperinflation is coming unless policy direction is rapidly changed
byAs you might expect, with Mr Ben Bernanke threatening another massive bout of currency printing to bail out rich Americans with the wealth of…
Is there a link between unemployment and economic growth?
byMost commentators are of the view that the key for US economic recovery is drastically lowering the number of unemployed Americans. Once more people…
John Hathaway: The end game for paper currency
byJohn Hathaway is a senior managing director and portfolio manager at Tocqueville Asset Management, specialising in the Tocqueville Gold Fund. Mr Hathaway recently wrote…