Monday From: https://monetary-metals.com/ Constantly falling interest rates are destructive. Those businesses that borrowed at the earlier rate are at a disadvantage to those businesses that borrowed later at a lower rate. As each new business is encouraged into existence by the incentive of lower interest loans, so the viability of the previous businesses is … [Read more...]
Central Banks
Sunday Central Banks are the equivalent of the Central Planning Committees of the old USSR and present-day China. They specialise in distorting markets such that sane investing is disincentivized and speculations leading to capital destruction are incentivized. Anger against central banks is rising, and spreading, and rightly so. But they operated with the … [Read more...]
Pamp Suisse App
Saturday Pamp Suisse have brought out a bar-testing App. You download it and scan a Pamp bar and it will verify, or not, that it is an authentic Gold bar. Apparently, more and more fake Gold is hitting the market and my guess is that this will do wonders for Pamp’s Gold sales. I hope to see Perth Mint and ABC replicate this technology with their … [Read more...]
Money is Not a Good
Thursday “For example, money is not consumed after a transaction, but goods such as pork bellies and copper ingots are. Money is not directly comparable to goods.” Keith Weiner One of the tenets of Dawn of Gold is that goods* and money** are different. Money is not the most marketable good. Money is not, never was and cannot be a good. Prior to 1500BC, … [Read more...]
Time Preference
Wednesday “Time-preference is simply the desire to own goods at an earlier date rather than later.” (here) I come across this regularly, and it is important to understand that this is just an observation that is sometimes true, but, equally as often, is not. Imagine receiving a crane delivery of a roof for a house before the walls are constructed. What would … [Read more...]