SBTV (https://www.silverbullion.com.sg/SBTV) spoke with Keith Weiner, Founder and CEO of Monetary Metals, about why gold is the best money and why the yield curve inversion in Treasury yields point to a collapse of credit demand. Keith Weiner's Monetary Metals: https://monetary-metals.com Discussed in this interview: 00:00 Introduction 01:41 Chip's in the Fed's casino 03:14 Gold, the economic constant 08:04 Why bitcoin cannot be money 11:09 What is money? 15:51 The CBDC digital dollar...
Read More »There is no mistaking these signals; that’s the bad news.
You really, *really* need to understand what market curves are telling you - and why. To get the best sense, let's go through the fundamentals, make what might seem a startling comparison, and then see if all that matches what we're just now seeing come up in the data. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffSnider_AIP https://www.eurodollar.university https://www.marketsinsiderpro.com https://www.PortfolioShield.net...
Read More »Risk Appetites Challenged after US Equities Tumble
Overview: The sharp sell-off of US stocks yesterday as sapped the risk appetite today. Equities are being sold. Hong Kong and the index of mainland shares that are listed there led the regional decline with 3.2%-3.3% losses. Europe’s Stoxx 600 is off about 0.65% in late morning turnover, the fourth day of losses. US futures are trading with a lower bias as well. European 10-year bonds are mostly 1-2 bp firmer. The US 10-year Treasury is practically flat at 3.53%....
Read More »Do Falling Prices Cause or Predict a Recession?
In the midst of excessive US economic and geopolitical uncertainties due to rampant inflation and the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 7.7 percent October inflation report comes as a small relief. The unemployment rate touched 3.7 percent in October, remaining near the 3.5 percent prepandemic level and slightly above the 3.4 percent natural rate of unemployment of the fourth quarter of 2021. The Covid Inflation The general increase in price levels, most...
Read More »Winter energy woes cast shadow over Swiss ski season
Swiss ski resorts are considering reducing the speed of ski lifts among various measures aimed at helping save energy this winter. © Keystone/gian Ehrenzeller Swiss ski resorts are gearing up for their biggest winter season since the Covid-19 pandemic. But soaring power prices in the wake of the Ukraine war have resort managers scrambling to find ways to save energy. The first ski slopes opened in the Swiss Alps in early November thanks to fresh snow in...
Read More »Online replaces TV as most influential form of media
Pure online brands are among the biggest winners this year © Keystone / Christian Beutler Online media replaced television as the most influential media genre in Switzerland for the first time in 2021, according to a study. Large brands such as 20 Minuten and Swiss public radio and television, SRF, lost influence in favour of smaller titles. In terms of importance for opinion-forming, print titles slipped to the bottom of the ranking, even behind radio and social...
Read More »2022 Sound Money Scholarship Winners Announced
6 Outstanding Students Earn Almost $10,000 in Tuition Assistance Eagle, Idaho (December 6, 2022) – Six outstanding students beat out almost 100 of their high-school and college peers in making the best case for sound money through an international, gold-backed scholarship competition… …and the winners walked away with a total of $9,500 in scholarship awards for their exceptional, thought-provoking essays. For the sixth-straight year, Money Metals Exchange, the U.S....
Read More »Officials admit this was a huge part of 2008, 2020, maybe the next one, too.
It has taken decades for officials mainly *outside* the US to catch on about massive monetary innovation. Currency and forex swaps aren't weird derivative contracts certain banks use, they are money and money creation. The BIS belatedly tells us (what we already knew) there's $80 TRILLION in such "hidden" money - denominated in dollars - around the world that some of them only now realize had been a huge part of both 2008 and 2020, and could be for the next one, too. Eurodollar...
Read More »Die "Titanic"-Analogie, die Sie noch nicht gehört haben | Von Charles Hugh Smith
Den vollständigen Tagesdosis-Text (inkl. ggf. Quellenhinweisen und Links) finden Sie hier: https://apolut.net/die-titanic-analogie-die-sie-noch-nicht-gehoert-haben-von-charles-hugh-smith
Read More »Die “Titanic”-Analogie, die Sie noch nicht gehört haben | Von Charles Hugh Smith
Den vollständigen Tagesdosis-Text (inkl. ggf. Quellenhinweisen und Links) finden Sie hier: https://apolut.net/die-titanic-analogie-die-sie-noch-nicht-gehoert-haben-von-charles-hugh-smith Ein Kommentar von Charles Hugh Smith. Passive Akzeptanz des Verleugnens Ob wir uns dessen bewusst sind oder nicht, wir reagieren mit passiver Akzeptanz des Verleugnens. Sie haben zweifellos gehört, dass die Neuanordnung der Liegestühle auf der Titanic eine Analogie für die...
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