Keith Weiner

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• 100% of Mainstream Interest Rate Theory is Wrong

  Published 22 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  An interesting article on MarketWatch today caught my attention. The subhead is the money quote, "Back in April every economist in a survey thought yields…

• Why is the Gold Standard Urgent?

  Published 14 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  After President Nixon's gold default in 1971, many people advocated a return to the gold standard. One argument has been repeated: consumer prices are rising.…

• Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report

  Published 06 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  How much higher can the dollar go? Betting on the Fed's paper has been one helluva speculation. No doubt the Fed's credit quality has been…

• Perception vs. Reality at the Fed

  Published 02 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Last week, a story broke about Fed whistleblower Carmen Segarra. I wrote an article on Forbes about it, Disgruntled Fed Lawyer Blows Whistle on Regulatory…

• A Monetary Cancer Metastasizes in Europe

  Published 24 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The European Central Bank again cut the interest rates it controls. Notably, the deposit rate was moved deeper into negative territory. It is now -0.2%…

• The Credit Gradient

  Published 29 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The United States, and every country, is subject to a monetary authority and legal tender laws. Here in the U.S. we have the Federal Reserve,…

• How Can The State Bank of India Pay Interest in Gold?

  Published 12 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  An article caught my eye this week. The Tirumala Tirupati Temple in India has deposited gold at the State Bank of India, and is getting…

• Like Dripping Silver Icicles

  Published 28 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  I don't typically emphasize price charts in analyzing the market, however something unusual has been happening in the spot (physical) silver market. It did not…

• Legal Tender Renders Planning Impossible

  Published 24 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is much confusion over what the legal tender law does. I have read articles, written by people who are otherwise knowledgeable about economics, claiming…

• Monetary Metals Silver Headfake Report

  Published 23 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Something extraordinary occurred this week. On Wednesday, the Fed made a routine announcement. That day, the price of silver was rising, but not out of…

• Barclays Caught Red Handed Manipulating Gold

  Published 27 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It was all over the news last week, both mainstream and gold sites. Barclays was caught manipulating the gold price. They were fined £26M, and…

• The Lazy 1970's vs. the Frenetic 2000's

  Published 21 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Many people today see the Fed's Quantitative Easing as money printing. They remember what happened in the 1970's, and they instantly jump to conclusions. However,…

• The End (of the Silver Fix) Is Nigh

  Published 15 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  For a long time, many in the gold and silver communities have been say that the prices of the monetary metals are manipulated. Recently, one…

• Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 11 May, 2014

  Published 12 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  This was another short week, with Monday a bank holiday in the UK. Through Tuesday, the prices of the metals seemed to want to hold…

• Gold and Silver Speculation

  Published 10 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is a stark difference between the states of the markets for the monetary metals. The number of open futures contracts in gold is low,…

• Why Was China Carrying Gold?

  Published 03 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Zero Hedge has run an excellent article explaining the use of commodities, beginning with copper, to work around the Chinese government's imposed capital controls[1]. Capital…

• Gold Arbitrage and Backwardation Part III (Gold as a Commodity)

  Published 28 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In Part I, we discussed the concept of arbitrage. We showed why defining it as a risk-free investment that earns more than the risk-free rate…

• Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report

  Published 10 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold went up and silver went down this week. It's natural for most people to say, "gold went up", but it's the most unnatural phenomenon.…

• The National Debt Cannot Be Paid Off

  Published 27 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Government spending is out of control and, while most say they want spending cuts, people oppose cuts that impact them. Among those who get government…

• Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 16 Feb, 2014

  Published 16 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The dollar dropped a lot more this week than it has in any one week for a long time. Measured conventionally, the gold price spiked…