Antal E. Fekete

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• Has Hedging Killed The Goose That Was To Lay The Golden Egg?

  Published 08 September 2008 | viewed 5,945 times

  Part One Introduction Gold mining executives would like to forget the hedging fiasco as you would the worst nightmare of your life. But the ghost…

• Cut Off Your Tail To Save My Face!

  Published 30 August 2008 | viewed 6,763 times

  The title refers to Aesop's tale about the wolf that has lost his tail in a trap. As he felt uncomfortable being so different from…

• Farewell Address

  Published 01 July 2008 | viewed 4,590 times

  Gold Standard University Live: R.I.P. The Inaugural Session of GSUL took place in February, 2007, at the Martineum Academy in Hungary. Subsequent sessions, including one…

• Putting Loin-Cloth On The Naked Bogeyman

  Published 11 June 2008 | viewed 3,832 times

  A Primer on the Silver Basis I started writing this piece as the sub-prime crisis was unfolding. I wanted to establish the connection between the…

• It's Not A Dollar Crisis: It's A Gold Crisis

  Published 05 June 2008 | viewed 7,085 times

  The title is a bow to Peter Schiff for his admirable article It's Not an Oil Crisis: It's a Dollar Crisis. Thirty-five years ago gold,…

• Gotterdammerung

  Published 28 April 2008 | viewed 4,402 times

  Wagner's opera Gotterdämmerung is about the twighlight of pagan gods. The most powerful of the latter-day pagan gods that has been guiding the destinies of…

• Forgotten Anniversary Haunts the Nation

  Published 28 March 2008 | viewed 3,246 times

  Seventy-five years ago this month Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. Within days after swearing to uphold the…

• Paper Tiger Preying on Gold Bugs

  Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 5,567 times

  The IMF and Its Phantom Gold Sales The IMF as the linchpin of the fixed exchange rate regime The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was set…

• The Anti-Gold Gospel According to Frieden

  Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 3,384 times

  Jeff Frieden is professor at Harvard focusing his research on the politics of international monetary and financial relations. He has been quoted as saying that,…

• The Anti-Gold Gospel According to Smith

  Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 3,771 times

  Barron Young Smith is a financial journalist whose piece What Would Happen If We Adopted the Gold Standard? is appended below. He describes Ron Paul's…

• Uncle Sam Crying "Uncle!"

  Published 09 February 2008 | viewed 8,250 times

  Tertium datur People tend to think in terms of black-and-white. Many of my correspondents think that either hyperinflation or deflation is in store for the…

• Opening the Mint to Gold and Silver

  Published 05 February 2008 | viewed 4,474 times

  A sequel to "The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Global Gold Games" Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University aefekete@hotmail.com In my last article I suggested that…

• The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Gold Games

  Published 30 January 2008 | viewed 5,495 times

  Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University aefekete@hotmail.com Even the most rabid silver bugs admit the possibility that the Chinese are the Big Silver Shorts. This…

• The Crash of the Bank of United States

  Published 28 January 2008 | viewed 13,048 times

  Benjamin M. Anderson* By the fourth quarter of 1930 the trouble with the Bank of United States gave occasion to grave concern. The Bank of…

• The Anti-Gold Gospel According to Kaletsky

  Published 26 January 2008 | viewed 4,969 times

  Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University e-mail: aefekete@hotmail.com Anatole Kaletsky is the author of the most recent Anti-Gold Gospel (www.gavekal.com, January 21, 2008.) He is…

• Gold: How High is High?

  Published 18 January 2008 | viewed 4,765 times

  Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University Now that the sound of cork-popping and other signs of celebrating the New Year, and the new record highs…

• Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream

  Published 25 November 2007 | viewed 5,321 times

  Invited Address Delivered on November 18, 2007, in Torrance, California, to a Joint Session of the Positive Deviant Network and the Flight to Genius movement…

• PEAK GOLD! -- A Primer on True Hedging, Part Five

  Published 03 October 2007 | viewed 3,830 times

  Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University Live aefekete@hotmail.com BARRICK EXECS CONTINUE TO EXERCISE OPTIONS AND SELL SHARES In Part Four I revealed that when it…

• Can We Have Inflation And Deflation All At The Same Time

  Published 28 September 2007 | viewed 7,670 times

  Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University Live aefekete@hotmail.com Executive Summary Very few people understand the "continental drift" that threatens with a fracture of the U.S.…

• Exploding the Myth of Silver Shortage

  Published 25 September 2007 | viewed 8,034 times

  What does the negative silver lease rate really mean? Antal E. Fekete Gold Standard University aefekete@hotmail.com On Thursday, September 20, 2007, the lease rate of…