How quickly will the dollar collapse?
This might seem a frivolous question, while the dollar still retains its might, and is universally accepted in preference to other, less sta...
Goldmoney Insights
The danger of eliminating cash
In the early days of central banking, one primary objective of the new system was to take ownership of the public's gold, so that in a crisi...
The forthcoming global crisis
The global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is alway...
America’s financial war strategy
Abstract America’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at...
Gold – crossing the Rubicon
Gold is challenging the $1300 level for the third time this year. If it breaks upwards out of this consolidation phase convincingly, it coul...
Economics of a crash
This month has seen something that happens not very often: it appears to be the early stages of a global stock market crash. For the moment...
Welcome to the world of ZIRP zombies
Interest rates in the US, Europe and the UK were reduced to close to zero in the wake of the Lehman crisis nearly seven years ago. Initiall...
Prices When Gold Is Money
We are getting ahead of ourselves here. Gold does not circulate as money – yet. It might never do so. Perhaps the end of government curren...
The Gently Rotting Debt-Ridden EU
The EU as a political construction is in a state of terminal decay. We know this for one reason and one reason alone: its core principle is...
Renewed estimates of Chinese gold demand
Geopolitical and market background I have been revisiting estimates of the quantities of gold being absorbed by China, and yet again I have...