Gold Standard

By Joel Bowman 05/27/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Speculation is not the same as gambling. As our good friend Doug Casey, a perennial favorite at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium, likes to say, speculation is the act (some might say “art”) of “capitalizing on politically caused distortions in the marketplace.” Consider, for example, the recent … Continue reading

And another advocate for the only logical outcome out of the disastrous monetary and fiscal catastrophe the US finds itself in emerges in the face of billionaire, and open administration critic, Steve Forbes. From Human Events: “A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because … Continue reading

Yesterday I came across a clip from one of the business channels. The discussion was about “king dollar” and Gold. (The king dollar probably gives it away). Anyway, one of the guests quipped, “I’m on record that Gold is a dumb trade. It is rising based on fear and confusion  and when that subsides, the … Continue reading

  This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on November 12th, 2010 Now it’s official! The yellow metal has gotten the golden seal of approval. This week none other than the President of the World Bank said leading economies should consider readopting a modified global gold standard to guide currency movements. Writing in … Continue reading

A great quote from William Osler typifies the evolution of our current monetary system. He said: “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” Decades and centuries ago, no one would have done without a hard money standard. The founders … Continue reading

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence.  Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper.  This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values.”   – Atlas … Continue reading

In this long essay from The Wall Street Journal, James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer remarks that the Federal Reserve “isn’t overtly manipulating” the gold market. His implication is that the Fed might be manipulating the gold market covertly. Maybe this is a small step in the right direction by someone who surely is erudite enough to know better already.