Tag Archives: gold
Why Gold Is Dipping While the Market Panics for Cash
Day after day decisions pile up. Some good. Some bad. Good decisions generally bring wealth, prosperity, satisfaction, and freedom. Bad decisions generally bring poverty, failure, discord, and captivity. Continue reading
How to Trade the Warsh Doctrine
Over the last week, the precious metals market went through a meat grinder. Gold and silver went from moon shot to abrupt crash and back to liftoff in the span of about a week. It’s been a classic case of market psychology, leverage, and the sheer chaos that happens when Washington throws a spitball at Wall Street. Continue reading
The Unvirtuous Cycle of Rate Cuts
Trying to artificially control things like interest rates without understanding the underlying economic realities leads to an unvirtuous cycle full of unintended, and often unpleasant, consequences. Over the last 112 years this has resulted in a steadily declining dollar and massive debt and deficits. Continue reading
A World Of Fiat
There has been a lot of discussion lately about America’s massive trade deficit and how President Trump’s tariff policies are intended to shrink it down while returning manufacturing to the USA. What isn’t often mentioned is how this massive trade deficit ever came about to the extent that it has to begin with. If the world still operated on a gold standard these mega imbalances would have been impossible. Continue reading
