Ben Traynor

Contributor since: 28 Apr 2011

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• Gold Speculation and the Comex

  Published 02 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  What exactly does 'speculative net long' mean...? Every Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes data that enable analysts to 'take the pulse' of various…

• FDR's Gold Confiscation, 80 Years On

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  "I, Franklin D Roosevelt...do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and...do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold..." Executive Order 6102, issued by…

• Savers Beware! Confessions from the Leading Edge of the Crisis

  Published 20 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Long, long ago, in a booming bank far from Cyprus... "We're top of the Best Buy table again," my manager said, "so we're expecting A…

• Gold: 'Monetary Collapse Insurance'

  Published 10 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Why investors are turning to gold ahead of 2013... Although the price of gold has fallen over the last couple of months, there has been…

• A Streetwise Hercules at the Bank of England

  Published 28 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Mark Carney's been hired to bang bankers' heads together... Where have all good men gone And where are all the gods? Where's the streetwise Hercules…

• Debt Crisis Solutions are Leaving Investors Behind

  Published 21 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  How the losses are being paid for... It used to be taken for granted that you could put aside some money and earn enough interest…

• A Train Wreck in the Bond Markets

  Published 09 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Why investors, fearful of currency depreciation, have turned to gold... Not so long ago, everyone seemed to think Greece was about to leave the Euro.…

• Perma-QE: Lessons from Bernanke's Latest Splurge

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Negative real interest rates show no signs of going away... After months of "quanticipation", the Federal Reserve has finally done it. Ben Bernanke yesterday announced…

• Bernanke Strikes Again!

  Published 07 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Another big fall for gold as the Fed chairman appears before Congress... Six days after they climbed back above $1600 an ounce, gold prices dropped…

• The Most Boring Gold Market Ever?

  Published 03 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We've just had the quietest 40 days since the financial crisis began... How often are gold prices as range bound as this? The London gold…

• Gold, Recession, and Why Britain's Winning the Currency War

  Published 26 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Depending on how you look at it, the Bank of England's doing its job brilliantly... Preliminary data released this week show that Britain has fallen…

• Bullish and Bearish Developments in Gold

  Published 13 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Highlights from this week's GFMS Gold Survey 2012 launch... Earlier Thomson Reuters GFMS, the world's foremost research firm focusing on precious metals, launched its Gold…

• Gunning for Gold

  Published 22 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Q: What links Turkey, India and Vietnam? A: Weak currencies, trade deficits - and a suspicion that gold is to blame... Here's the scenario: a…

• China's Rebalancing Should Be Good for Gold Demand

  Published 09 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The next stage of China's development could give gold buyers a boost... There is an old saying: "Nobody rings a bell at the top or…

• Gift Wrapped Liquidity

  Published 01 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Is the ECB about to give Europe's governments and banks the biggest Christmas present of their lives...? With Christmas a little over three weeks away,…

• Ill Communication, Fed Style

  Published 24 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Reserve has become more in interested in what it says about policy than policy itself... Is this a sign the Federal Reserve has…

• Is Germany Eyeing the Exit?

  Published 16 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  German leaders talk about "more Europe"...but are they just buying time...? THIS IS just an idea - but perhaps Germany is only pretending to want…

• Italy: One Step Closer to the End Game

  Published 04 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Is there an alternative to monetizing Italy's debt...? So the Italian government today asked the International Monetary Fund to monitor its reform program. It may…

• Why are the Markets So Hectic?

  Published 23 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Another horrible weak for investors right across the board. What's going on...? We have seen another tumultuous week for global markets. Gold prices have been…

• Has Gold Really Been So Frantic?

  Published 02 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  There's been a lot of talk about how volatile gold's been this summer. The numbers tell a different story... Going by some of the recent…