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Some Answers to Doug Casey’s Questions

April 13, 2012 – In the April edition of The Casey Report, Doug Casey tackles the matter of gold price manipulation. He does this in an ...


Mr. Bernanke goes to college

March 21, 2012 – Earlier this week Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave a lecture to students at George Washington University. It was the ...


Is the ECB Solvent?

June 14, 2011 - The solvency of the European Central Bank is being called into question by some brilliant in-depth research from ...


Nothing scary about these charts

October 3, 2010 – There is nothing scary about these charts, provided you own some physical gold and/or silver.  Both precious metals are ...


A signal from the stock market

June 14, 2010 – The stock market is often acclaimed for its forecasting ability.  Stock prices peak long before the downturn in economic ...


US Dollar Money Supply Is Underreported

March 1, 2010 – As the financial crisis has unfolded over the last two years, the Federal Reserve has been responding in a variety of ...


What Are Banks Doing with Their Depositors' Money?

February 26, 2010 – There have been numerous reports about the sharp decline in bank lending since the beginning of the financial crisis.  ...


M3 Declines from One Year Ago

January 9, 2010 – The total quantity of US dollars in circulation has declined over the past year.  As of December 31, 2009, M3 is $14.193 ...


The Federal Reserve Needs More Money

December 30, 2009 – The Federal Reserve needs more money to continue purchasing US government debt, the aggregate amount of which is soaring ...


The Federal Reserve Becomes the ‘Buyer of Last Resort’

November 29, 2009 – While the debate continues whether inflation or deflation will be the dollar’s eventual fate, the Federal Reserve is ...


The Dollar Depends on Politicians Now

October 28, 2009 - It wasn’t too many decades ago that the dollar was, as the saying went, “as good as gold”.  It was a truism, ...


The Fiat Currency Disease

June 25, 2009 - Yesterday the Federal Reserve completed the latest meeting of its Federal Open Market Committee.  It re-affirmed its plan to ...


End the Fed

June 8, 2009 - I've lost count of how many trillions of dollars have been created 'out of thin' air by the Federal Reserve to bail out the banks. But ...


The Federal Reserve's Blueprint for Market Intervention

January 16, 2009 - An important document buried in the Federal Reserve's archives has been discovered by writer and researcher Elaine Supkis. This ...


After the Deleveraging Comes the Deluge

October 6, 2008 - One of the basic premises of my portfolio strategy is to avoid the US dollar. My basic recommendation in this regard is simple, ...


Liquidity Won't Help Insolvency

Dec 12, 2007 - The Federal Reserve today announced a new scheme to inject more liquidity into the money markets. It cobbled together a partnership ...


M3 Resurrected

September 3, 2007 - M3 has been resurrected, so I have my trusty roadmap back. We can once again closely track what is happening to the dollar by ...


Inflationary Expectations

July 30, 2007 - I recently wrote an article published on Kitco.com that made reference to a July 10th speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben ...


Controlling Inflationary Expectations

July 12, 2007 - Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke delivered on July 10th a lengthy presentation on the public's expectation of future inflation. ...


Clipping Coins in the 21st Century

November 13, 2006 - In 1787 Russian general Grigori Potemkin constructed facades of buildings along the banks of the Dnieper River to fool Catherine ...


A Fear Index Revival?

August 7, 2006 - In November 2005 the Federal Reserve announced that it would no longer compile and report M3, which is the total quantity of dollars ...


Mr Bernanke's First Crisis

May 8, 2006 - It was only two short months after Alan Greenspan was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve that he faced his first crisis. The ...


The End of M3 - Hiding the Truth About Inflation

March 28, 2006 - Each week the Federal Reserve reports various measures of the US dollar money supply. One of these, M3, is the total quantity of ...


Dollar Interest Rates Jump

March 6, 2006 - Long-term US dollar interest rates rose again this past week, continuing the uptrend that began in mid-January. For example, the ...


Something to Worry About

January 9, 2006 - As we begin this new year, there is a lot to ponder over and worry about.  High on this list is the imminent departure of ...


Alan Greenspan's Legacy

November 14, 2005 - Last week as I sat at my desk pounding away on my computer, a news 'flash' on CNBC caught my attention. But instead of some ...


Ben Bernacke, Another Bill Miller

October 31, 2005 - We all have heard of Ben Bernacke, who president Bush just recently appointed to be chairman of the Federal Reserve to succeed ...


Federal Reserve Jawboning Illustrated

October 17, 2005 - For months formidable forces of inflation and other forms of monetary debasement have been gathering at a frightening pace. Rising ...


The Outlook for 2005

January 10, 2005 - From time to time over the past couple of years I have been comparing our present circumstances to those prevailing in the ...


The Debt Bubble

May 10, 2004 - Catching up on my reading last week, I was very much taken by comments made recently by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. From his ...


The 'Flight from the Dollar' Accelerates

December 22, 2003 - It is easy for economists - like generals - to fall into the trap of fighting the last war. The big monetary upheavals of the last ...


The Confiscation Threat

December 1, 2003 - By a so-called Executive Order, President Roosevelt declared on April 5, 1933 that: "All persons are hereby required to ...


Window Dressing

October 27, 2003 - Because financial statements provide a snap-shot of a company's balance sheet for just one day, the opportunity exists for ...


Capital Controls Are Coming

June 16, 2003 - The headline of the May 30, 2003 issue of The New York Times blared "U.S. Cautiously Begins to Seize Millions in Foreign ...


The Dollar's Death Spiral

March 10, 2003 - The Dollar Index closed this past Friday at 98.04, a new 3-year low, 19% below its 2001 high. Even more importantly, its downward ...


Finally, A Reply

October 28, 2002 - It has been several months (see Letter No. 301, March 18th, 2002, Asking for Help from My Congressman), but my Congressman has at ...


Letters from D.C.

August 5, 2002 - There has been a flurry of letters from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department responding to various enquiries about the ...


The Momentum of Truth Rapidly Approaches

April 29, 2002 - One of the most basic premises about which I have been writing for years is about to be tested. Will we get a flight from the dollar ...


Asking for Help from my Congressman

March 18, 2002 - I've been completely stonewalled by the Federal Reserve. Alan Greenspan has not responded to my letters. So my questions to the ...


Accounting for the ESF's Gold Swaps

January 7, 2002 - A few weeks ago I received an interesting email from Andrew Hepburn. He is a diligent researcher who has done yeoman's work for ...


The Fed Loses Control

December 17, 2001 - The above title might be somewhat premature. Complete control may not yet have been lost, so instead, it is perhaps more accurate ...


The Chairman Didn't Respond

November 5, 2001 - I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on September 14th. Here's what I said: Dear Mr. Greenspan: This is to ask for ...


More Evidence from 1995

October 21, 2001 - Bill Murphy, proprietor of www.lemetropolecafe.com and the founder of GATA (see www.GATA.org), is being inundated with email from ...


Dishoarding of 'Earmarked' Gold Continues

August 27.2001 - In the last two letters I have written about the earmarked gold stored in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Foreign ...


The Mystery of the Disappearing SDR Certificates

August 13, 2001 - Here's a mystery for you. It ranks high with any of the great thrillers solved by Sherlock Holmes, but this one is not fiction. I ...


What Is Happening to America's Gold?

July 23, 2001 - This past December I wrote ("The Smoking Gun") about my discovery of a discrepancy between two reports that tracked the ...


Two Alan Greenspan's

June 4, 2001 - It is probably not too surprising for you to learn that at the recent conference in Durban, South Africa sponsored by ...


Catching Up on Q&A

May 21, 2001 - I have received many interesting questions from readers about my article Behind Closed Doors, the apparent swap of Gold from West Point ...


Behind Closed Doors

April 23, 2001 - This past December in "The Smoking Gun" I provided substantive proof that the Exchange Stabilization Fund was intervening ...


The Federal Reserve's Worst Nightmare

October 16, 2000 - Most everyone assumes that a crash in the stock market is the Federal Reserve's worst nightmare. There are many sound reasons to ...


Wake Up, Mr Greenspan

June 15, 1998 - Mr. Miller was ousted, and Paul Volcker was rushed in to pick up the pieces. But the change came too late. The damage had already been ...


'Bonds' Away!

March 24, 1997 - Like bombs from the belly of a B-52, T-Bond prices are falling around the world. It is a phenomenon not confined just to the United ...


When Interest Rates Rise

November 4, 1996 - In the last letter I noted the possibility of "one last upward spike in T-Bond prices to provide the markets with one last ...

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