Gold •171 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% | |
WTI Crude •1 day | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% | |
Gasoline •1 day | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% | |
Ethanol •171 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 171 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 171 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 1 day | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | ||
Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | ||
Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Antal E. Fekete is Professor, Intermountain Institute of Science and Applied Mathematics, Missoula, MT 59806, U.S.A.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…