Tag Archive for: interest

How to monetize your gold and silver

How to monetize your gold and silver

Companies that unlocked the productive potential of underutilized resources have taken off in the last decade. Uber with cars, Airbnb with housing, and even the digital cloud using extra computer space. What about monetizing underutilized gold and silver? Jeff Deist and Ben Nadelstein discuss. Connect with Jeff and Monetary Metals on X: @JeffDeist @Monetary_Metals Additional […]

What is good money?

What is Good Money?

What is the difference between good money and bad money? Is there a spectrum of moneyness? Is political money worse than commodity money? Jeff Deist and Ben Nadelstein discuss the Quantity Theory of Money, hoarding money as an economic good, and Say’s Law. Connect with Jeff and Monetary Metals on X: @JeffDeist @Monetary_Metals Additional Resources […]

Bob Elliott: Why the Market Hasn’t Crashed Yet

Bob Elliott: Why the Market Hasn't Crashed Yet

Bob Elliott of Unlimited Funds joins the podcast to discuss the importance of diversification in investment portfolios, gold as a contra currency, and the role of the Federal Reserve in the modern economy. Additional Resources Earn Interest on Gold Bob Elliott Unlimited Funds 2024 Gold Outlook Report  Passive Income in Gold Earn a yield on […]

Keith Weiner Speaks at Dubai Precious Metals Conference

Dubai Precious Metals Conference

Last month Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner spoke on a panel at the prestigious 2023 Dubai Precious Metals Conference. As the world grapples with record inflation and escalating debt concerns, Keith presented a new narrative for the role of gold in international finance. Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and CEO of the DMCC covered the conference […]

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. 

Keith Weiner’s Macroeconomic Equation

R > I Equation

Macroeconomists, it is said, have physics envy. Physicists measure how gasses behave as temperature, pressure, and mass of gas molecules are changed, and write an equation to describe the relationship between these variables: PV = nRT (P = pressure, V = volume, n = amount of gas, R = ideal gas constant, and T = […]

Jay Powell is Victor Frankenstein

Zombie Powell

In the world of finance, something has been haunting economists and investors alike: zombie firms. The Fed has created hordes of zombie firms, with a study in April 2021 finding that over 25% of U.S. companies were zombies in 2020. These undead firms have been sucking the life out of the economy.  But things are […]