Tag Archive for: money

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 […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Conclusion

The Anti-Concept of Money Conclusion

The Anti-Concepts of Money The cash-value of promoting each of these anti-concepts is that they lead people to think that the central bank should impose a monetary policy. To make our lives better.  Our monetary policy is set by the Federal Reserve, which states that in pursuit of its mandate for price stability, it will engineer […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Stagflation

Anti-Concept Stagflation

If you’ve read the Inflation essay from this Anti-Concepts of Money Series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Stagflation. The Anti-Concept of Stagflation  Stagflation. This is a curious term. Wikipedia’s definition has the tell-tale signs of an anti-concept:  “In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: What is GDP?

What is GDP?

If you’ve read the Introduction from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept: GDP The Anti-Concept of GDP Let’s discuss thet anti-concept, Gross Domestic Product or GDP for short. Armed with an understanding of anti-concepts, it should be obvious from one of the ways it’s calculated. From Wikipedia:  Y = C […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Store of Value

Anti-Concept Store of Value

If you’ve read the previous essays on Purchasing Power, Inflation, and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept: Store of Value The Anti-Concept of a Store of Value Another anti-concept is store of value. The very term evokes a picture of a container. You pour water into the container, […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Inflation

Anti-Concept Inflation

If you’ve read the previous essays on Purchasing Power, Velocity, and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Inflation The Anti-Concept of Inflation  The Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power leads us to the Anti-Concept of Inflation.  That pseudo-equation already smuggles that any increase in the quantity of money causes […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Purchasing Power

Anti-Concept Purchasing Power

If you’ve read the previous essays on Velocity and Money from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power. The Anti-Concept of Purchasing Power  Let’s look at another anti-concept, purchasing power. Wikipedia defines it as:  “the amount of goods and services that can be purchased with a unit of […]

The Anti-Concepts of Money: Velocity

Anti-Concept Velocity

If you’ve read the What is Money? essay from this Anti-Concepts of Money series we can now discuss the Anti-Concept of Velocity. That pseudo-equation MV=PQ described in the What is Money? essay leads us to the anti-concept velocity.   The Anti-Concept of Velocity Even in the gold standard, money supply is not a physical object that […]