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The Bifurcated Interest Rate

Bifurcating interest rates

A fissure in the monetary system is very dangerous. Leaving aside that you can lose money into it, it causes market participants to drastically alter their behavior, which can cause the collapse of financial institutions, gross misallocations of capital, and other collateral damage. 

Jeff Deist: Why I Joined Monetary Metals 

Jeff Deist: Why I Joined Monetary Metals

This post was written by Jeff Deist, former President of the Mises Institute. Jeff will be joining Monetary Metals full-time as General Counsel in May.  I am exceptionally pleased to join Monetary Metals after ten years at the Mises Institute.   Offering yield on gold is both simple and yet novel in today’s modern context. […]

Gold 2.0 – How to Upgrade your Gold with Monetary Metals

Gold 2.0

Monetary Metals attended the famous New Orleans Investment Conference this year to talk about how A Yield on Gold, Paid in Gold® can benefit investors. CEO Keith Weiner gave a talk on the main stage titled How to Build and Wreck a Pension Fund in 22 Easy Steps. Click the link to watch his talk, […]

Is the Yield on Gold Enough?

Is a Yield on Gold Enough?

Monetary Metals pays investors interest on their gold and silver. The availability of a yield on precious metals, instead of fiat currency, is a value proposition that all types of investors are benefitting from. An Old Idea Made New Again Providing a yield on gold and silver may seem like a new phenomenon . But […]

Keith Weiner on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Jay Taylor

CEO Keith Weiner returns to popular radio show Turning Hard Times into Good Times hosted by Jay Taylor. Jay argues that the U.S. government hates gold because its rising price shines the light on the destruction of the dollar caused by the Federal Reserve’s printing press used to finance massive government deficits. The detractors of […]

Gold & Silver ETFs: The Fine Print

ETF

These are exciting times for gold & silver ETFs. Bloomberg reported this week that metal-backed ETFs accumulated more than $50 billion of bullion this year. And Nasdaq shows that iShares Silver Trust (SLV) has experienced a $188.2 million dollar inflow over the past 12 months. Headlines excitedly shout about A Golden Opportunity and ETF Land’s […]

Keith Interviewed by Jordan Goodman, Lode, Amy Peikoff and James Valliant

Jordan Goodman https://youtu.be/2VbKzaFp2ps “Is there a way to earn money while holding precious metals? Why do people invest in gold and silver if all they do is hold it while paying storage fees? What’s the difference between investing and speculating when it comes to precious metals? Why should an investor hold gold? Host Jordan Goodman […]

The Dollar Cancer and the Gold Cure

The dollar is failing. Millions of people can see at least some of the major signs, such as the collapse of interest rates, record high number of people not counted in the workforce, and debt rising from already-unpayable levels at an accelerating rate. I am going to share a little bit about myself and my […]

100% of Mainstream Interest Rate Theory is Wrong

An interesting article on MarketWatch today caught my attention. The subhead is the money quote, “Back in April every economist in a survey thought yields would rise. Guess what they did next.” Every? The article refers to 67 economists polled by Bloomberg, all of whom would seem to believe in the quantity theory of money. […]