Open Letter to Mercatus Center
byLetter to Patrick Horan Program Manager for Monetary Policy Mercatus Center Via Internet Dear Mr. Horan and Mercatus: It just came to my attention…
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Who Would Invest in a Gold Bond?
byBerkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet famously dismissed gold. “Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.” I have recently written…
The Case for A Gold Currency Part 2: Wages and Growth: Higher Under Classical Gold Standard
byBy Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
The Case for A Gold Currency: Part 1
byBy Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
A Brief (and Messy) History of Modern Gold Standards
byMarcia Christoff-Kurapovna Although gold prices hit a new high in mid-January, Americans, by and large, are still reluctant about gold. They don’t quite “get it.” This…
The Golden Revolution, Revisited
byThe latest edition of The Golden Revolution is available from Amazon here https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535608994 Back in 2012 John Wiley and Sons published my first book, The…
Lord Liverpool and the Return to Gold
byMartin Hutchinson and Kevin Dowd* * Hutchinson (karlmagnus.aol.com) is the author of the Bear’s Lear column, http://www.tbwns.com/category/the-bears-lair/. Dowd (kevin.dowd@durham.ac.uk) is professor of finance and…
The Fed Rate Hike and Gold
byThe Fed Rate Hike and Gold, Report 18 June, 2017 The big news this week comes from the Fed, which announced two things….
Will Gold or Silver Pay the Higher Interest Rate?
byThis question is no longer moot. As the world moves inexorably towards the use of metallic money, interest on gold and silver will return…
Rapid money growth and inflation – is there a connection?
byIn the article “Rapid money supply growth does not cause inflation” written by Richard Vague at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, December 2,2016…