Keith Weiner

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• The Vexing Relationship Between Gold, Bitcoin And The Dollar

  Published 03 April 2018 | viewed 2,650 times

  Let’s tie two topics we have treated, one in exhaustive depth and the other in an ongoing series. They are bitcoin and capital consumption. By…

• Gold Is A Giant Ouija Board

  Published 26 February 2018 | viewed 4,239 times

  We have been promising to get back to the topic of capital destruction, which we put on hiatus for the last several weeks to make…

• Irredeemable Currency De-tooths Savers

  Published 20 February 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Arbitrary Interest Rates In the past few weeks, we have argued that interest rates will not rise. We have made our arguments based on observable…

• Take It To The Bank: Interest Rates Won't Rise

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 0 times

  How Not to Predict Interest Rates We continue our hiatus from capital destruction to look further at interest rates. Last week, our Report was almost…

• Shut Down Shoddy Debt, Report 21 Jan 2018

  Published 22 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  We have been discussing the consumption of capital. We again must say: “We see people eating more of the seed corn.” Right now as we…

• Speculating Our Way to Prosperity, Report 15 Jan 2018

  Published 16 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  We have been discussing the consumption of capital. Last week, for example, we concluded with: “We see people eating more of the seed corn.” Morally,…

• Quantum Change in Gold Demand Continues, Report 7 Jan 2018

  Published 09 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Short-term interest rates have been relentlessly rising since the second half of 2015. For example, 3-month LIBOR was 0.28% in July of that year. It…

• Quantum Change in Gold and Silver Demand, 4 Jan 2018

  Published 04 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  We hope everyone had a happy New Year. There is a long informercial airing on American TV. It shows an endless parade of senior citizens,…

• The Bitcoin Effect, Gold and Silver Report 27 Dec 2017

  Published 28 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Let’s address two themes about the gold price trend that are increasingly in popularity the past few months—as the price of gold has been falling.…

• The Bitcoin Effect, Gold and Silver Report 28 Dec 2017

  Published 28 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Merry Christmas to our American friends. Happy Christmas to the rest of the Anglosphere. Felicem natalem Christi to our Latin-speaking audience, and góðr jól to…

• Cheering for Bitcoin, Gold and Silver Report 17 Dec 2017

  Published 19 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  We have published many articles, arguing that bitcoin is unsound. Yet for all those arguments, there is a bright side to bitcoin. It is exciting…

• What’s the Point, Gold and Silver Report

  Published 05 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  A reader emailed us, to ask a few pointed questions. Paraphrasing, they are: Who cares if dollars are calculated in gold or gold is calculated…

• The Hyperinflation That Was Not, Report 26 Nov 2017

  Published 28 November 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Last week, we made a very controversial statement. We are happy to write the truth, and let the chips fall where they may (e.g. our…

• What Made Gold Go Up, Update 20 Oct 2017

  Published 20 October 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Yesterday, the Department of Labor announced that initial jobless claims dropped. Quite a lot. So naturally, markets reacted. The stock market began to rise. The…

• Is Bitcoin a Commodity? Gold & Silver Report 24 Sep 2017

  Published 25 September 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Carl Menger, father of the Austrian School of Economics, showed the world that money is not the product of the state. He did not mean…

• Tragedy of the Speculations, Gold & Silver Report 10 Sep 2017

  Published 11 September 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Bitcoin is often promoted as the antidote to the madness of fiat irredeemable currencies. It is also promoted as the replacement. Bitcoin is promoted not…

• Hidden Forces of Economics, Gold & Silver Report 27 Aug 2017

  Published 28 August 2017 | viewed 0 times

  We have noticed a proliferation of pundits, newsletter hawkers, and even mainstream market analysts focusing on one aspect of the bitcoin market. Big money, institutional…

• Bitcoin Forked, and Gold and Silver Report 6 August 2017

  Published 07 August 2017 | viewed 0 times

  So bitcoin forked. You did not know this. Well, if you’re saving in gold perhaps not. If you’re betting in the crypto coin casino, you…

• Putting the Silver Crash Under a Lens

  Published 12 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  On Thursday, July 6, in the late afternoon (as reckoned in Arizona), the price of silver crashed. The move was very brief, but very intense.…

• What's Behind The Gold And Silver Price Drop Of 3 July, 2017

  Published 04 July 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The price of gold dropped from $1,241 as of Friday’s close to $1,219 on the close Monday, or -1.8%. The price of silver fell from…