Entries by Keith Weiner

A Salvo in the Battle for the Gold Standard

I wrote what I thought was a fairly simple article for Forbes on Tuesday. I noticed that some people really got it, and they were very excited. However, others were skeptical or asking questions that went into the weeds. The former tells me that I said something important, but the latter says that I said […]

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report: 8 Feb, 2015

The price of gold dropped about $50, and the price of silver fell about 50 cents. Is this just random market jitter, or the great breakdown? Wait. Great breakdown? Yes, many respected mainstream names think gold should be at most a few hundred dollars, especially given the collapse in the other commodities. Some non-mainstream names […]

Monetary Metals Brief 2015

It’s the start of a new year. The question on everyone’s mind is whither the prices of gold and silver? This Brief presents our answer (and the full Monetary Metals Outlook 2015 report gives our reasoning). One approach to the question of price is to draw a line, extrapolating the past trend into the future. […]

Monetary Metals Outlook 2015

We have consistently been making the contrarian call for a falling silver price and a rising gold to silver ratio for years. This leads to the logical question. Are we ready to change our call yet? This being the start of a new year, we wanted to take the opportunity to look at this question […]

The Swiss Franc Will Collapse

I have worked to keep this piece readable, and as brief as possible. My grave diagnosis demands the evidence and reasoning to support it. One cannot explain the collapse of this currency with the conventional view. “They will print money to infinity,” may be popular but it’s not accurate. The coming destruction has nothing to […]