Classical Economics in a Quantum World
The Trump presidency arrives at a time coincident with a unique monetary opportunity. The dollar price of gold (POG) at $1200 is at or near the equilibrium point where creditors and debtors are in balance. What this means is that…
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For sure, trade is not free. Tariffs are a means to raise revenue to fund government. There is nothing wrong with that. Tariffs funded the U.S. government almost exclusively until the introduction of the income tax in 1913. Combined with…
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The problem with free trade arises from the beggar-thy-neighbor belief that competitive currency devaluation results in a trade advantage. Without stable currencies that remain equal in value–an international gold standard–free trade becomes a race down the devaluation road. Then the…
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Understanding Gold 6 Gold’s many properties define it as a monetary proxy. Gold has no real use other than its role as a monetary commodity. Mankind selected it for this role because history has proven the stability of its value. …
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Jude Wanniski in his seminal book The Way the World Works equates the political market with the economic marketplace. If the market is efficient for goods and services, it is equally efficient at processing the known information surrounding a political…
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There is a palpable glee among some that is evident whenever the price of gold falls.¹ It manifests itself in the media, academia, pundits, and certain segments of the investment world. Paul Krugman becomes orgasmic. A fall in the price…
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The Opening Salvo Regardless of what you think about Trump, he recently did the world a big service. He pointed out, in his unique, unadulterated style, the monetary elephant in the room to a global audience. Trump’s attack on the…
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Fed Operating Targets The latest round of will-the-Fed-or-won’t-the-Fed-finally-hike-rates has passed. The world waited breathlessly for the Federal Reserve to announce their latest FOMC decision. Once again, the Fed punted on announcing another measly .25% funds rate hike and averted the…
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Understanding Gold 5 I deem the idea that everyone understands gold’s value but few understand why it has value, the gold paradox. The primary reason is that academia, over the last 80 years, has increasingly dismissed gold as a monetary…
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Understanding Gold 4 On August 15, 1971, Nixon, by executive order, broke the dollar-gold link that had anchored the Bretton Woods international monetary system since 1944. (The link was officially severed in February 1973.) This was the beginning of the…
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