Steve Saville

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• Big Picture Charts

  Published 31 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 23rd October 2011.   Just for a change and on the off chance…

• How the Fed Could Boost the Money Supply Without 'Printing' Money

  Published 17 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 9th October 2011.   Public opinion is against the Fed creating more money…

• The Next Shoes to Drop

  Published 10 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 6th October 2011.   The US economy is definitely in recession and the…

• The Sceptical Inflationist

  Published 03 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 2nd October 2011.   Many investors pigeon-hole themselves as "inflationists" or "deflationists", where…

• Why Debt Levels are So High

  Published 19 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 15th September 2011.   Economists of all stripes agree that debt levels are…

• The Nikkei Model and Monetary Inflation

  Published 12 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 4th September 2011.   We usually update our "Nikkei Model" once or twice…

• Gold: The Big Picture

  Published 29 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 25th August 2011. With gold having 'gone parabolic' in the weeks leading up…

• Nobody Wants A Strong Currency

  Published 23 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 21st August 2011.   The world of policy-making is dominated by Mercantilism and…

• Does the Fed Simply Follow the Market?

  Published 09 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th August 2011.   If you look at a multi-decade chart comparing the…

• Real Performance

  Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  We'll now step back and review some 'big picture' inflation-adjusted (IA) charts. These charts show monthly prices in June-2011 dollars, using our own inflation index…

• Bonds, Inflation Expectations, and QE3

  Published 18 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 17th July 2011.   The only major threat to the T-Bond The difference…

• The Insidious Effects of Monetary Inflation

  Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 26th June 2011.   Most people with a basic grounding in economics know…

• Bank Reserves, Money Supply, and a Secular Change in Credit

  Published 21 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 19th June 2011.   Bank Reserves and Money Supply The relationship between bank…

• The 'Backing' of Today's Money, Part 2

  Published 13 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 12th June 2011.   Our 6th June commentary included a short piece titled…

• What 'Backs' Today's Money?

  Published 06 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 5th June 2011. All of the major central banks hold currency reserves in…

• What Should the Gold/Silver Ratio Be?

  Published 23 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 22nd May 2011.   The price of gold is dominated by investment/monetary demand…

• The 'Smoothing Out the Bumps' Fallacy

  Published 16 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 15th May 2011.   Governments and central banks have invoked the writings of…

• The Relatively Poor Performance of Gold Stocks, 1976-1980 and Now

  Published 09 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 1st May 2011.   Below is a chart comparison of the Barrons Gold…

• Gold Versus silver and Other Commodities

  Published 02 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 28th April 2011.   There's an old saying to the effect that the…

• When Will the Gold Bull Market End?

  Published 11 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 10th April 2011.   When will the gold bull market end? The short…