Antal E. Fekete

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• The Last Contango in Washington

  Published 03 June 2006 | viewed 8,503 times

  When the silver corpse stirs, money doctors run People from around the world keep asking me what advance warning for the collapse of our international…

• Monetary versus Non-monetary Commodities

  Published 25 May 2006 | viewed 8,767 times

  Sorting out wheat from chaff? In my last two articles ("Bull in Bear's Skin?" and "Ultracrepidarian Musings") I emphasized that gold and silver analysts make…

• Ultracrepidarian Musings

  Published 11 May 2006 | viewed 6,126 times

  A letter from a reader takes me to task for my missive "Bull in Bear's Skin?" saying that I am an "ultracrepidarian" out of my…

• Bull in Bear's Skin?

  Published 05 May 2006 | viewed 10,468 times

  Dear Mr. Northwest: Thank you for asking the provocative question whether the current bull market in gold is stage-produced by the powers-that-be in order to…

• The Gold Standard Manifesto

  Published 09 January 2006 | viewed 6,052 times

  Specter of the Gold Standard A specter is haunting executive mansions, chambers of legislatures, and halls of universities: the ghost of the gold standard. Governments…

• Silver Charade, Gold Charade

  Published 30 November 2005 | viewed 7,307 times

  Not practicing what one preaches I inadvertently opened a can of worms in writing the essay "Myth of the American Gold Standard" (SafeHaven, November 14,…

• The Myth of the New American Gold Standard

  Published 14 November 2005 | viewed 6,262 times

  Introduction In 1999 The New York Times ran an obituary of the "barbarous relic" from the pen of Floyd Norris under the title "Greenspan Has…

• The Fall and Rise of the Gold Standard

  Published 20 October 2005 | viewed 6,491 times

  Abstract Our revisionist theory of the gold standard takes the bill market and the discount rate into full account. Greater availability of gold is no…

• Economic Entropy

  Published 09 October 2005 | viewed 6,580 times

  DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF FERDINAND LIPS WHO ARDENTLY ADVOCATED THE PRESERVATION OF KNOWLEDGE HOW TO RUN A GOLD STANDARD SO THAT IT CAN BE…

• Unemployment: Human Sacrifice on the Altar of Mammon

  Published 30 September 2005 | viewed 6,049 times

  Revisionist Theory and History of Money Unemployment: Human Sacrifice on the Altar of Mammon Abstract The Great Depression of the 1930's bringing unprecedented world-wide unemployment…

• Where Mises Went Wrong

  Published 15 September 2005 | viewed 6,695 times

  Ludwig von Mises erred when he dismissed what is known as the Fullarton Effect. In 1844 John Fullarton of the Banking School described how low…

• The Year of the Euro: The Missed Opportunity of the Millennium

  Published 28 July 2005 | viewed 6,794 times

  An Address delivered before the Athenaeum of Madrid, Spain, January 18, 1999 Gulliver in the land of the mad scientists Jonathan Swift described the strange…

• Detractors of Adam Smith's Real Bills Doctrine

  Published 13 July 2005 | viewed 11,472 times

  Credit versus clearing Strictly speaking a bill of exchange, pejoratively called "real bill" by Milton Friedman following his mentor Lloyd Mints, is not a credit…

• The Goldbug Variations V

  Published 01 May 2005 | viewed 5,254 times

  Fifth and concluding part: A Rebuttal of Paul Krugman's Chrysophobic Theories Recitativo The United States abandoned its policy of stabilizing gold prices back in 1971.…

• The Goldbug Variations IV

  Published 20 April 2005 | viewed 4,909 times

  Part 4 of 5: A Rebuttal of Paul Krugman's Chrysophobic Theories Recitativo Crucially, gold is not a stable standard when measured in goods and services.…

• The Goldbug Variations III

  Published 01 April 2005 | viewed 4,625 times

  Recitativo Why not assure monetary virtue by trusting, not in the monetary wisdom of men, but in an objective standard? Why not emulate our great…

• The Goldbug Variations II

  Published 27 March 2005 | viewed 5,812 times

  Recitativo Gold is just another metal. If it sometimes seems to be more, that is only because society has found it convenient to use gold…

• The Goldbug Variations I

  Published 24 March 2005 | viewed 9,193 times

  Overture This is a rejoinder to a piece of the same title by Paul Krugman, MIT professor (now at Princeton) and staff writer of The…

• Burning Bridges and Halfway Houses

  Published 21 March 2005 | viewed 6,353 times

  The corner-stone of my deflation theory is the observation that there is a double-bias in speculation caused by the central bank's open market operations as…

• The Decoy of the Falling Dollar

  Published 14 February 2005 | viewed 4,194 times

  A consensus is building among market observers that bonds defy all logic. The falling dollar should make dollar bonds fall, too. After all, bondholders stand…