Topic: Gold Standard

Currency, Gold Standard, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?

– June 7, 2012

It may feel like I’m out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now for a huge move into gold and silver.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Gold and The Central Banks: The Game Theory

– May 24, 2012

“Collectively, the central bankers of the world might agree that they do not want gold to be remonetized. Individually, it is in their interest to defect from this consensus. As the American Century decays, individual motivations tend to become more prominent. You and I are not in a free market – but the central banks are.”

Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Can We Get Inflation AND Deflation at the Same Time?

– May 23, 2012

The current financial crisis, may progress to a phase where people demand and hoard dollar bills but take electronic deposit credits only at a discount which increases until electronic deposit credits are repudiated entirely.

Currency, Fiscal Policy, Gold Standard, Inflation, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Gold Tells the Truth

– May 17, 2012

Feel like your wages are buying less in real terms? They are

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Regulation, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?

– May 16, 2012

The answer to ‘Why?’ is: because gold-linked stable money is superior to manipulated funny money. The answer to ‘How?’ is a bit more complicated

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

The Real Debate On Gold And Money

– May 7, 2012

Engaged observers who otherwise were content with that central bank apathy awake to the possibility that flexibility for the Federal Reserve comes at the price of individual flexibility. More power for Chairman Bernanke necessarily means less power for you and me.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

The US Dollar Vs. Gold

– April 27, 2012

The GFC is falsely named, since it is more accurately described as a global monetary war with the USGovt vigorously defending its franchise in the USDollar for crude oil and trade settlement, and for bank reserves management.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Is There No Escape from the Euro?

– April 27, 2012

Is escaping the Eurozone possible?

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

A Gold-based Currency Board, Please

– April 25, 2012

Gold-based currency boards could transform Professor Mundell’s prediction into a reality. Currency boards have existed in more than 70 countries and a number are still in operation today.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

Contra Bernanke

– April 16, 2012

Another takedown of the Fed Chairman’s “lesson” at GWU.

Central Banking, Cryptocurrency, Currency, Free Banking, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Digging Up and Digging Down Gold

– March 30, 2012

The Gold Standard is the worst standard, except for all the others. In a recent post at Nada es Gratis (Nothing is Free), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde discusses a visit to the vault where gold is stored at the New York Fed. The post and subsequent commen …

Currency, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Problems Facing Every Monetary System

– March 30, 2012

by Kurt Schuler Readers of George Selgin’s post just below should be aware that there is a an extensive comment section about it, including a few of his own remarks, over at Marginal Revolution. Now, on to what I promised to discuss in my last post, so …