Classical Economics in a Quantum World
I discussed the size of the Fed’s balance sheet in The Fed, Gold, and MMT and during my interview on Supply Side Podcast with Jonathan Doyle. I also talked about gold manipulation on the podcast. I’ll expand a little on both…
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The price of gold (POG) is the inverse of the value of a country’s currency. Changes in the POG reflect changes in a currency’s value, not in gold’s value which is stable. If gold supply and demand determined the POG,…
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There is a very good article from ZeroHedge on the coming Treasury debt issuance resulting from the Covid-19 government-imposed shutdown. Goldman Spots a Huge Problem for the Fed. ZH is obviously well connected to the inner workings at Treasury and the…
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Fed Balance Sheet Analysis Analyzing the Fed’s April 30 H.4.1 $6.6 trillion balance sheet requires more nuance than just observing its rapid, unprecedented increase since the start of the government imposed Covid-19 economic contraction. Change in Fed balance sheet from Jan 02,…
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The Normal “The normal” was Fed operating policy from 1913 – 2008. The Fed had direct control of the supply of base money and the ability to match it to demand. By direct control I mean when the Fed created…
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Judy Shelton is Trump’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board. She is a long-time advocate of a gold standard and has written two books on the subject, Money Meltdown and Fixing the Dollar Now. She is a threat to…
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Returning to a Gold Standard and Gold Equilibrium looked at the relationship between the optimum price of gold (the price level) and the spot price of gold (POG). A return to a gold standard, without the induced economic stress of…
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Trump’s nomination of Steve Moore and Herman Cain to Fed Board positions has shaken up the Fed establishment. Moore is advocating a CRB (commodities) Index target while Cain has written in favor of a gold standard. A gold standard or…
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In January 2018, I saw a market inflection occurring due to Fed normalization. I wrote Market Memo: Market Inflection. The week I wrote it, the Dow hit 26,600 and then began a decline. Capital flows to where it receives the…
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The Fed creates money based on a monetary standard. Think of a monetary standard as the Fed’s carburetor that regulates how much liquidity gets injected into the economic engine. To maintain a standard requires adjusting base money supply to hit a specific…
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