Steve Saville

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• Is The End of QE Bearish for Gold?

  Published 16 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is a slightly-modified excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 14th December 2014. Also, excerpts from our newsletters and other comments on…

• Any Quantity of Money is Just Fine

  Published 10 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th December 2014. Also, excerpts from our newsletters and other comments on the…

• Gold, Inflation Expectations and Economic Confidence

  Published 05 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 2nd November 2014. Also, excerpts from our newsletters and other comments on the…

• Why is Gold Mining Such a Crappy Business?

  Published 19 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 12th October 2014.   That gold mining has generally been a crappy long-term…

• Why The US$ is Rallying

  Published 07 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 5th October 2014.   As long as a market is in a strong…

• Gold vs Silver During Precious-Metals Bull Markets

  Published 29 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 25th September 2014.   It is widely believed that silver outperforms gold during…

• The 'Escape Velocity' Myth

  Published 26 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Making sense by replacing "despite" with "because of" In February of 2009 we wrote that if the story unfolded as we expected then a lot…

• Future 'Inflation' and The Fed's Madness

  Published 13 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th August 2014.   Prior to 2002 the Fed would tighten monetary policy…

• Currency Devaluation: The Most Destructive Policy of All

  Published 30 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of…

• Setting The Stage for The Next Collapse

  Published 22 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 20th July 2014.   When the central bank pumps money into the economy…

• US Money Pumping, Past and Present

  Published 23 June 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below are excerpts from commentaries posted at www.speculative-investor.com over the past week. US money pumping by decade and Fed chairman A large increase in the…

• Gold During Booms and Busts

  Published 29 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 27th April 2014.   The boom/bust cycle is caused by fractional reserve banking.…

• US Monetary Inflation Slowdown

  Published 15 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 13th April 2014.   On the US monetary inflation front, the news is…

• Gold versus Silver

  Published 01 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Below is a slightly-modified excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 30th March 2014.   We most recently discussed the long-term performance of…

• Most Gold Bulls Will Be Right For The Wrong Reasons

  Published 24 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 23rd February 2014.   An interesting aspect of the gold market is that…

• Economics Myths

  Published 18 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Our original intention was to explain where we agreed and disagreed with the article by Cullen Roche at "Pragmatic Capitalism" (is there any other kind…

• Random Thoughts About The Year Ahead

  Published 09 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 26th January 2014.   1) The monetary backdrop continues to be very different…

• Hyperinflation and Capital Controls

  Published 01 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Hyperinflation The US will eventually experience hyperinflation, but "eventually" could be long after we are all dead. Therefore, rather than making the case that hyperinflation…

• US Monetary Inflation Slowdown

  Published 21 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 19th January 2014.   The US monetary inflation rate continues its downward drift.…

• What a Bubble Looks Like (And Why Gold's Price Action Wasn't Bubble-Like)

  Published 20 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The following is excerpted from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 19th December 2013.   One characteristic of an investment bubble is dramatic upward…