Financial journalist Lars Schall talked with German academic Tom Fischer, a financial mathematician, about the phenomenon why gold’s usual state of contango suggests central bank interference. Moreover, they took a look at the issue of the paper vs the physical gold market, and discussed other issues related to the precious metal markets, such as the […]
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Gold as Part of Gresham’s Law for Interest Rates
Dezember 3rd, 2013
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Posted in Currency, Finance, Precious Metals | Tags: Antal E. Fekete, Backwardation, Central Banks, Contango, Gold, Gold Price, Market Intervention, Matterhorn Interview, Silver, Tom Fischer
AMERICAN BASES IN GERMANY AND THE GOLD BASIS
Januar 28th, 2013
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Germany is neither independent nor sovereign, prevailing pretences notwithstanding. It has American troops on her soil for reasons unexplained and unexplainable after all Soviet occupying troops were withdrawn almost 25 years ago. Equally significant is the fact that the lion’s share of the German gold reserve is in American custody. If the Bundesbank asked for […]
Posted in Finance, Precious Metals | Tags: 1930's, 1971, Antal E. Fekete, Backwardation, Contango, Debt, Deflation, Deutsche Bundesbank, Deutsche Mark, Euro, Germany, Godfrey Bloom, Gold Basis, Gold Reserves, New Austrian School of Economics, NY Fed, Switzerland, UK, US Dollar, USA, Wilhelm Röpke
