March, 2015

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 29 Mar, 2015

Another week, another $18 added to the price of gold, and 20 cents to silver. We don’t generally publish technical analysis, but we keep abreast of what the technical world is saying. Not surprisingly, +$24 last week and +$18 this week have generated some excitement. In our estimation, the technicals are starting to look bullish […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 22 Mar, 2015

This week, the price of gold was not moving much until Wednesday. And then, someone or other said something about monetary policy. And boom! Just like that, the price of everything took off like a rocket. By the end of the week, the price of gold was up $24 and the price of silver was […]

Falling Interest Causes Falling Wages

Interest rates have been falling for over three decades. Conventional economics has two things to say about this. One, inflation expectations are falling. Monetarists believe that the interest rate is set based on bond traders’ predictions of future price increases. Two, if employment and GDP are weak, then the central bank should increase the money […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 15 Mar, 2015

Last week, we talked about currencies. This week, let’s look at what the dollar is worth. No, we don’t mean purchasing power, which is just the inverse of consumer prices. Every day, every business that wants to remain alive is busy cutting costs. Real prices are in free fall, and some dollar prices too. For […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 8 Mar, 2015

Last week, we borrowed a phrase from Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.  We said it felt like, “the deep breath before the plunge”. We added, “We don’t necessarily mean a plunge in the price of gold measured in dollars. It could be a plunge in the price of the dollar. And there are […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 1 Mar, 2015

One almost gets the sense that a significant event is going to happen soon. The wisdom of our old friend Gandalf has been paraphrased a number of times in this Report. To quote from him again (not paraphrasing at all this time), “Tt’s the deep breath before the plunge.” We don’t necessarily mean a plunge […]