Tag Archive for: central bank

Bob Elliott: The Case for The Contra Currency

Bob Elliott: The Case for The Contra Currency

Bob Elliott of Unlimited Funds joins the podcast to talk about why gold can be better than bonds, why the economy hasn’t hit a recession yet, and what it’ll take to make asset prices fall. Bob and Keith discuss central bank gold leasing vs. true gold leasing, the junk bond conundrum, and more! Additional Resources […]

John Reade: Cold Hard Truths About Gold

John Reade: Cold Hard Truths About Gold

John Reade of the World Gold Council joins the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk all things gold. Are ETF’s a good way to own gold? Why are Central Banks buying gold, and not reporting it? How much gold is too much gold in an investment portfolio? Follow John Reade on Twitter @JReade_WGC and visit the […]

How Will A Central Bank Digital Currency Work?

How Will A Central Bank Digital Currency Work?

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC, or in America let’s call it “FedCoin”) is a hot topic right now. Articles about it are everywhere, and Monetary Metals’ clients are asking about it. Gold is widely seen as a way to opt out. No doubt this is part of why the price of gold has held up […]

Zombies Corporations are Slowly Devouring the Economy

Zombie Firms

I spoke with zombie firm researcher Max Goebel to breakdown his findings on the nature and consequences of zombie lending. Max is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Lisbon and his been studying what many researchers missed. Max helped answer some questions on zombie lending which have been haunting me. What is […]

Basel III and Gold – Central Bankers Locking the Fire Exits

Basel III and Gold - Central Banks Locking the Fire Exits

This is a special guest post by Ross Norman, CEO of Metals Daily. This article on Basel III and Gold is republished here with Ross’s permission.  To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, said Mark Twain. So it is that pundits have interpreted forthcoming Basel III rules as simply an opportunity […]

A Wealth Tax Consumes Capital, Report 6 Oct

It seems one cannot make a name for one’s self on the Left, unless one has a proposal to tax wealth. Academics like Tomas Piketty have proposed it. And now the Democratic candidates for president in the US propose it too, while Jeremy Corbyn proposes it in the UK. Venezuela finally added a wealth tax […]

GDP Begets More GDP (Positive Feedback), Report 30 June

Last week, we discussed the fundamental flaw in GDP. GDP is a perfect tool for central planning tools. But for measuring the economy, not so much. This is because it looks only at cash revenues. It does not look at the balance sheet. It does not take into account capital consumption or debt accumulation. Any […]

Is Capital Creation Beating Capital Consumption? Report 3 Mar

Capital Destruction Machine

We have written numerous articles about capital consumption. Our monetary system has a falling interest rate, which causes both capital churn and conversion of one party’s wealth into another’s income. It also has too-low interest, which encourages borrowing to consume (which, as everyone knows, adds to Gross Domestic Product—GDP). What Is Capital At the same […]

Central Planning Is More than Just Friction, Report 17 February

It is easy to think of government interference into the economy like a kind of friction. If producers and traders were fully free, then they could improve our quality of life—with new technologies, better products, and lower prices—at a rate of X. But the more that the government does, the more it burdens them. So […]

Are Stocks Overvalued, Report 24 Dec 2018

We could also have entitled this essay How to Measure Your Own Capital Destruction. But this headline would not have set expectations correctly. As always, when looking at the phenomenon of a credit-fueled boom, the destruction does not occur when prices crash. It occurs while they’re rising. But people don’t realize it, then, because rising […]