Tag Archive for: interest rates

Ep 52 – Jeff Snider: Solving the Eurodollar Puzzle

Jeff Snider: Solving the Eurodollar Puzzle

Jeff Snider, Headmaster of Eurodollar University, joins the podcast to talk about the perverse complexities of the Eurodollar system. What even is a Eurodollar? Why was the system created? Keith and Jeff discuss the Eurodollar market and then give their hot takes in a hilarious lightning round. We hope you enjoy this insightful, whirlwind of […]

The Current Yield Curve Inversion, Explained

Gold Exchange Report

The yield on the 10-year bond recently fell below the rate paid by the Fed on bank reserves. That is, a bank gets paid more to lend to the Fed for a day than to lend to the Treasury for ten years. There is not merely an inversion between the 2-year and the 10-year bonds. […]

How to Build and Destroy a Pension Fund System in 22 Easy Steps

Step 18

How to Destroy a Pension Fund in 22 Easy Steps CEO of Monetary Metals Keith Weiner gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference on how to build and destroy a pension fund system in 22 easy steps. If you’d like to see an excellent case study of these steps in action, see the […]

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 […]

Interest Rates Cannot Go Up Far, Or Hold for Long

Gold Exchange Report

Listen to the audio version of this article here. Consumer prices have been on a tear, since early last year. Right now, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is rising at more than 8% per year. Source: St Louis Federal Reserve Conventional thinking calls for higher interest rates. It makes this call via two channels. One […]

Ep 39 – Tavi Costa: Breaking Down the Pressures on the Market

Episode 39 Tavi Costa

Tavi Costa of Crescat Capital joins Keith and Dickson on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the current state of the market, investing in good times and bad, and what future indicators to watch. Connect with Tavi on Twitter: @TaviCosta Connect with Keith Weiner and Monetary Metals on Twitter: @RealKeithWeiner @Monetary_Metals Additional Resources Fed […]

Smart Investor Interviews Keith Weiner

Smart Investor Germany

Ralph Malisch of Smart Investor, interviewed CEO of Monetary Metals, Keith Weiner on the economic issues facing the global economies. Keith explained the reason for the disappointing price development in gold as of late, and what would make the price rise again. ” Unfortunately, many have bought gold using leverage and are facing margin calls, […]

How Not to Think About Gold

How Not to think about gold

Spend any time in the gold market and you will be bombarded with all kinds of theories about what drives gold and silver prices.  It’s the money supply dummy! No, it’s “real” interest rates! No, no, it’s mine production!  Then there are the non-theories, like the never-ending price manipulation narrative. Or the “global currency reset” […]

Open Letter to Crispin Odey

I am writing in response to the comments you made in a letter to investors yesterday, which were widely reported. You have set the gold community afire, with claims that are not new and not true. So I shall attempt to douse the flames. As everyone knows, President Roosevelt outlawed the ownership of gold in […]

Monetary Metals Gold Brief 2020

We apologize for not posting articles during January. We have been busy, and going forward will publish a separate Market Report every Monday morning plus macroeconomics essays later in the week, as time permits.   This is our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets. We look at the market players, dynamics, fallacies, drivers, […]