Consumer prices react differently under a gold standard and a fiat standard due to the relative flexibility of each system. What would it be like living under a gold standard? Here are a few (but by no means all) of the features that would characterize it: Banknotes, up until now […]

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The U.S. Mint made an unusual request this week. In a press release dated July 23, the bureau literally begged Americans to start putting coins back into circulation by spending or depositing them. As you may have noticed, people just aren’t making transactions with coinage like they used to. That’s […]

I Believe Gold and Silver Are Just Getting Started

Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.  by Ellen Brown When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No more bailouts!” But what the Act actually said was that the next time […]

Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus

Alasdair Macleod, Axel Merk and Michael Oliver are guests this week. In 2004 Dr. Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley warned America was on a collision course as it borrowed excessively from China and Japan to fund its Treasury. The collision Dr. Roach warned about in 2004 was heard in September […]

Will COVID-19 Lead to a Gold Standard?

Jay introduces the guests, gives updates on the sponsors and Michael Oliver provides his usual insights into the momentum of key markets. Axel Merk, President and CIO of Merk Investments, talks about OUNZ, a paper gold ETF, that allows investors to take possession of physical gold. Alasdair Macleod, has a background […]

Dan Oliver and Chen Lin are this week’s guests as we explore a new episode of the radio program. Nature gave us gold for money and currency. It is the best form of money known to man not only for economic stability and a prosperous egalitarian capitalist society but also […]

Life under a gold standard

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