Keith Weiner

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• The Silver Plunge Continues

  Published 25 September 2020 | viewed 15,363 times

  A few days ago, I wrote about a big silver crash. The price dropped around 7.5%. And the basis dropped from around 2% to 0.6%.…

• Can Anything Slow The Silver Rally?

  Published 22 July 2020 | viewed 8,548 times

  The price of silver has just spiked up about $1.80—that’s about 9%. All the usual suspects have been calling for silver to skyrocket. With some…

• Capital Gain vs. Capital Consumption

  Published 25 May 2020 | viewed 3,371 times

  The price of gold dropped a few bucks this week, but the price of silver jumped about half a buck. The drumbeat for the gold…

• What’s Behind The Silver Sell-Off?

  Published 16 September 2019 | viewed 5,278 times

  This week, the prices of the metals fell further, with gold -$18 and silver -$0.73. On May 28, the price of silver hit its nadir,…

• Are Bonds In A Bubble?

  Published 09 September 2019 | viewed 9,279 times

  Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is now…

• Demand For Cash Is On The Rise

  Published 19 August 2019 | viewed 3,542 times

  At a shopping mall recently, we observed an interesting deal at Sketchers. If you buy two pairs of shoes, the second is 30% off. Sketchers…

• How To Measure The Strength Of The Economy

  Published 08 July 2019 | viewed 4,984 times

  We have been writing on the flaws in GDP: that it is no measure of the economy, because it looks only at cash and not…

• How Roosevelt Fundamentally Changed The Global Monetary System

  Published 29 May 2019 | viewed 2,529 times

  Last week, we wrote about the impossibility of China nuking the Treasury bond market. Really, this is not about China but mostly about the nature…

• Could China Start Dumping U.S. Treasury Bonds?

  Published 20 May 2019 | viewed 6,685 times

  There is a drumbeat pounding on a monetary issue, which is now rising into a crescendo. The issue is: China might sell its holdings of…

• The Overlooked Factor Contributing To Inflation

  Published 15 April 2019 | viewed 5,853 times

  Last week, we wrote that regulations, taxes, environmental compliance, and fear of lawsuits forces companies to put useless ingredients into their products. We said: “For…

• What Causes Loss Of Purchasing Power?

  Published 08 April 2019 | viewed 5,810 times

  We have written much about the notion of inflation. We don’t want to rehash our many previous points, but to look at the idea of…

• How Will New Basel Banking Regulations Impact Gold?

  Published 02 April 2019 | viewed 5,433 times

  A number of commentators have predicted that the rules of the Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket (no, this article is not…

• The Purchasing Power Paradigm

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 3,928 times

  Last week, in Is Capital Creation Beating Capital Consumption, we asked an important question which is not asked nearly often enough. Perhaps that’s because few…

• Fed Under Pressure As Capital Creation Lags

  Published 04 March 2019 | viewed 2,339 times

  We have written numerous articles about capital consumption. Our monetary system has a falling interest rate, which causes both capital churn and conversion of one…

• Lending: The Good, Bad, And Ugly

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 8,065 times

  In Atlas Shrugged, Francisco D’Anconia says: “So you think that money is the root of all evil? . . . Have you ever asked what…

• The Intrinsic Value Of Gold-Backed Cryptos

  Published 19 November 2018 | viewed 7,388 times

  A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we wrote a series of articles arguing that bitcoin is not money and is not…

• Where Does The True Value Of Gold Lie?

  Published 15 October 2018 | viewed 9,770 times

  “You can’t eat gold.” The enemies of gold often unleash this little zinger, as if it dismisses the idea of owning gold and indeed the…

• Why Gold Investors Should Pay Attention To The Swiss Franc

  Published 01 October 2018 | viewed 8,753 times

  Sometimes, one just needs to look in the right place. And often in those cases, it just takes a conversation to alert one where to…

• The New Paradigm In Monetary Markets

  Published 06 August 2018 | viewed 4,049 times

  Explaining a new paradigm can be both simple and impossible at the same time. For example, Copernicus taught that the other planets and Sun do…

• How Will Social Security Remain Solvent?

  Published 18 June 2018 | viewed 5,452 times

  We have been writing about capital destruction. This week let’s look at an event which is currently making news. Social Security will begin tapping into…