October 27, 2011 – It was my good fortune to receive an advance copy of Jim Rickards' new book, “Currency Wars”. It is a great ...
February 26, 2010 – There have been numerous reports about the sharp decline in bank lending since the beginning of the financial crisis. ...
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August 7, 2009 - In Economics 101 college professors teach that prices are determined by supply and demand. Not usually taught, however, is that the ...
July 27, 2009 - Over the past couple of months there have been several particularly bearish articles on MineWeb.com about gold mining in South Africa. ...
April 14,2009 - An old Chinese saying declares that wisdom begins by calling things by their right name. Truer words could not be spoken about ...
July 21, 2008 - I lived in South East Asia for most of the 1970's, working in the branch offices there for one of the large New York City banks. I was ...
April 28,2008 - There have been numerous media reports about food shortages around the globe and the resulting riots caused by empty store shelves. ...
August 20, 2007 - "A banker is the person who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains."
We ...
January 8, 2007 - The above title is from a very insightful article about the international monetary system that appeared in the January 5th edition ...
December 18. 2006 - Treasury secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke (together with 59 underlings) trekked to China to meet ...
October 2, 2006 - Connolly to Baker to Paulson. It could be the names of three infielders in an around-the-horn triple play, but it's not. These ...
January 23, 2006 - A couple of years ago I read Empire: the Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by British ...
Sept 14, 2005 - I'm no fan of John Maynard Keynes. I find most of his economic theories to be just plain wrong. But for the sake of truth and ...
April 11, 2005 - Crude oil expert Matt Simmons is becoming a familiar name to many, particularly as the price of crude oil climbs higher. He has been ...
February 21, 2005 - The International Monetary Fund supposedly owns about 3,200 tonnes of gold. I say 'supposedly' purposefully, because like the ...
January 10, 2005 - From time to time over the past couple of years I have been comparing our present circumstances to those prevailing in the ...
June 14, 2004 - A recent report crossed my desk by Dr. Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report. I first met Marc nearly twenty years ...
March 15, 2004 - On March 8th the European Central Bank and 14 of Europe's national central banks made the following announcement - ...
April 21, 2003 - One of the statistics complied by the International Monetary Fund is the quantity of gold owned by the world's central banks. That ...
December 23, 2002 - There have been several important developments regarding gold since the last newsletter. These include:
December 2nd - A strike ...
November 18, 2002 - Long time readers of these letters know that I am not shy about making my views known. In other words, when it comes to markets, I ...
October 14, 2002 - One of my favorite writers is Lew Rockwell, who not only is the proprietor of the eponymous www.lewrockwell.com, but also president ...
February 20, 2002 - In just a few weeks the Bank of England will conclude the bi-monthly gold sales that it began in 1999. I've been thinking a lot ...
October 21, 2001 - Bill Murphy, proprietor of www.lemetropolecafe.com and the founder of GATA (see www.GATA.org), is being inundated with email from ...
August 31, 2001 - I've been waiting for it to happen, and now the war of words has finally begun. The Bank for International Settlements today fired ...
June 25, 2001 - When we look at recent and current economic and financial activity within the United States, it seems very logical to ask why is the ...
March 5, 2001 - Every once in a while one can almost sense that something is wrong in the financial system. We are at one of those moments. The system ...
June 7, 1999 - Many things in finance and economics are counter-intuitive. In fact, many things in life are counter-intuitive.
For example, when ...
May 17, 1999 - For months it has been my contention that central banks are manipulating the Gold price. More proof came on May 7th.
The British ...
January 25, 1999 - The Internet offers the potential to become one of the greatest technological advances in the history of mankind. I truly expect ...
December 21, 1998 - We live in crazy times. Who would have thought that Sadam Hussein would outlast another US president? Or that Bill Clinton, a ...
November 16, 1998 - I approach all the markets from two different perspectives. I look at the technical side of the market to see what the charts are ...
October 26, 1998 - Most people readily accept the notion that governments throughout the world do not want the Gold price to rise. The reason for this ...
July 13, 1998 - By the time you receive this letter, the outcome of Japan's election will be known. Up for grabs is the majority of seats in the ...
May 18, 1998 - A full contingent of European finance ministers and central bankers met on May 2nd to take additional steps toward the creation of the ...
March 23, 1998 - This week the Belgian central bank released a statement that read in part: "The weekly situation...was influenced by an ...
March 9, 1998 - Last month Warren Buffett lit the fuse of a precious metals firecracker with the stunning announcement that his investment company, ...
February 16, 1998 - I think it was Helmut Kohl who compared the political process to sausage making - by advising facetiously that in politics like ...
January 26, 1998 - You may not have heard about the 'Millennium Bomb' yet, but you will soon be hearing about it a lot. Increasing attention is being ...
January 12, 1998 - The Great Depression had ended before I was born, but this traumatic collapse that unhinged the world economy in the 1930's has had ...
December 15, 1997 - I have been conspicuously quiet about the Yen for many months. After very successfully riding the Yen's strength from the ...
November 24, 1997 - Two op-ed articles about Gold appeared last week in two of London's leading newspapers. The timing is not surprising. Given the ...
November 10, 1997 - On October 24th a committee of government bureaucrats from the Swiss finance ministry and the Swiss National Bank shocked the Gold ...
October 21, 1996 - What will happen to the Gold price after the November election? Will it remain stuck below $400 per ounce, or can we finally expect ...
September 30, 1996 - I recently had the opportunity to meet Thabo Mbeki, the Deputy President of South Africa. A lunch in his honor was hosted in New ...
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