Who Would Invest in a Gold Bond?
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet famously dismissed gold. “Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.” I have recently written…
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The Case for A Gold Currency Part 2: Wages and Growth: Higher Under Classical Gold Standard
By Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
Read MoreThe Case for A Gold Currency: Part 1
By Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
Read MoreA Brief (and Messy) History of Modern Gold Standards
Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna Although gold prices hit a new high in mid-January, Americans, by and large, are still reluctant about gold. They don’t quite “get it.” This…
Read MoreThe Golden Revolution, Revisited
The latest edition of The Golden Revolution is available from Amazon here https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535608994 Back in 2012 John Wiley and Sons published my first book, The…
Read MoreLord Liverpool and the Return to Gold
Martin Hutchinson and Kevin Dowd* * Hutchinson (karlmagnus.aol.com) is the author of the Bear’s Lear column, http://www.tbwns.com/category/the-bears-lair/. Dowd (kevin.dowd@durham.ac.uk) is professor of finance and…
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The Fed Rate Hike and Gold
The Fed Rate Hike and Gold, Report 18 June, 2017 The big news this week comes from the Fed, which announced two things….
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Will Gold or Silver Pay the Higher Interest Rate?
This question is no longer moot. As the world moves inexorably towards the use of metallic money, interest on gold and silver will return…
Read MoreRapid money growth and inflation – is there a connection?
In the article “Rapid money supply growth does not cause inflation” written by Richard Vague at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, December 2,2016…
Read MoreBring Back the Gold Gilt
This essay was submitted to the Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize for 2017. Executive Summary Our monetary system imposes a form of central planning, based…
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