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Steve Saville

Steve Saville

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

  • Measuring the Money Supply

    Published 23 March 2010 | viewed 1,675 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 21st March, 2010. The year-over-year growth rates of popular monetary aggregates M2 and…

  • Are Rising Interest Rates Bullish or Bearish for Gold?

    Published 16 March 2010 | viewed 3,071 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 14th March, 2010. Interest rates trended upward during the gold bull market of…

  • Diverting the Blame for "Inflation"*

    Published 08 March 2010 | viewed 2,216 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 7th March, 2010. It is said that the more things change, the more…

  • "Peak Gold", Central Banker Confusion

    Published 01 March 2010 | viewed 2,304 times

    Below are excerpts from recent commentaries posted at www.speculative-investor.com. The irrelevance of "Peak Gold" It is said that the cure for high commodity prices is...high…

  • The "Too Big to Fail" Lie (as applied to US banks)

    Published 22 February 2010 | viewed 4,964 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 28th January, 2010. "They are too big to fail" was the reason given…

  • Monetary Inflation and the Fed's Exit Strategy

    Published 15 February 2010 | viewed 2,749 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 14th February, 2010. Inflation Update The following monthly chart compares the year-over-year (YOY)…

  • Gold Stocks versus Gold Bullion

    Published 01 February 2010 | viewed 4,153 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 31st January, 2010. It is widely believed that gold stocks offer leveraged exposure…

  • Interest Rate Manipulation

    Published 19 January 2010 | viewed 2,672 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 14th January, 2010. What the "risk free" interest rate should be and what…

  • Thoughts on Monetary Inflation

    Published 12 January 2010 | viewed 3,050 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 10th January, 2010. Inflation: A deliberate policy, not the natural way The US…

  • Recognition of the US Inflation Problem

    Published 14 December 2009 | viewed 3,939 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 13th December 2009. When the banking system (the central bank and the commercial…

  • Dubai, Inflation, and Gold

    Published 08 December 2009 | viewed 4,412 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 3rd December 2009. What caused Dubai's boom and bust? Frank Shostak had some…

  • Inflating Away the Debt? Not Really

    Published 01 December 2009 | viewed 4,167 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 26th November 2009. According to popular opinion, a benefit of inflation is that…

  • The Stock Market's Lengthy Topping Process

    Published 23 November 2009 | viewed 6,092 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 22nd November 2009. Fed rate hikes have preceded every major decline in the…

  • Why Changes in Gold Production Don't Matter

    Published 09 November 2009 | viewed 3,737 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 8th November 2009. Introduction Most analyses of the gold market consider the annual…

  • Bank Reserves and Inflation

    Published 03 November 2009 | viewed 3,274 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 29th October 2009. The following chart shows that bank reserves held at the…

  • The "Long Run" is a Sequence of "Short Runs"

    Published 27 October 2009 | viewed 3,325 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 22nd October 2009. Even within the ranks of analysts who have some understanding…

  • Popular Misconceptions

    Published 20 October 2009 | viewed 4,683 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 8th October 2009. The "Paradox of Thrift" The "circular flow of income" theory…

  • Gold and Saving

    Published 13 October 2009 | viewed 5,198 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 11th October 2009. It is very likely that two ultra-long-term trends reversed direction…

  • The "Credit-Based" Monetary System

    Published 28 September 2009 | viewed 4,454 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 24th September 2009. One of the arguments put forward by deflationists (people who…

  • Mini Inflation Blow-Off

    Published 21 September 2009 | viewed 4,443 times

    Below is an excerpt from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 17th September 2009. Coming into September the markets had the potential to experience…