Is Gold Overpriced or Can Its Price Go Even Higher?
This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends.
Monetary Policy
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Banking’s Unique Business Model, And Why Capital is not a “Rainy Day Fund”
Contrary to popular opinion, bank capital is not a reserve to cover potential losses. In fact, even the ill-fated Silicon Valley Bank had adequate bank capital before it collapsed.
FDR and the End of Gold: 2,500 Percent and Counting
The world is full of scraps of paper today.
Fixing FDR’s Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard to Fiat Folly and Back
On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.
Wisconsin Formally Ends Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver
Responding to an overwhelming groundswell of grassroots pressure, Gov.
Utah Formally Empowers State Treasurer to Protect State Funds with Gold and Silver
Texas and Ohio have previously acquired gold. Meanwhile, legislation like HB 348 is under consideration right now in Missouri, Tennessee, Idaho, and West Virginia.
Price Inflation Comes from Government, not from “Excuseflation” or “Greedflation”
In his recent State of the Union speech, President Biden called out private enterprise for what he calls “shrinkflation” and “greedflation.” If he wishes to know who is responsible for this phenomenon, he should look in the mirror.
Monetary Systems and Economic Outcomes: Yes, They Are Related
Joakim Book reviews Hidden Cost of Money by Seb Bunney. While the book makes some good points, it leaves much to be desired.
Should the US Congress Audit the Federal Reserve?
Nearly two decades ago, Congressman Ron Paul identified his campaign with the call to "audit the Fed." Congress ignored him then, but the movement to examine and demystify the Fed now is growing.
