Gold gets a sniff of $1,600, gaining 1% in minutes to $1,596/oz., with traders noting one buyer taking down 5.7K 1-month gold futures contracts as stoking the move. GLD +1% premarket. Silver comes along for the ride, SLV +1.1%. [View news story]
I know that I keep whining about a gold standard, but it has to come; one can only buy and sell using toilet tissue until the demand for tt starts to fall, after all you can only have so much.... Napoleon pointed the gold standard stuff years ago, and he was a smart cookie.
These arguments are well founded somewhat primitive. Reminds me of watching the "Quest for Fire" picture some years ago; the players were valid and had incorrectly included time series to their cross section analysis of events. This is the same paradigm that trapped the NBER back in the 50's. Ho Hum
I hope that the US implements a two currency system; this would be most interesting for an old economist, myself, to watch. It would be logical to do so and the Corporations would give full backing (votes).
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I have this free floating anxiety about fiat currency that does not have a bench mark, or "numeraire" as Napoleon once mentioned.The US, has printed trillions of dollars since 1971 with no reference to any numeraire. Now, the dollar is facing some value competition in exchange with other currencies; there is no single currency or commodity to enforce relative stability. Clearly the US should re-establish some sort of stability ( as they did before by controlling the ownership of gold). This process will, I believe, be some sort of prescription for a double currency, viz, a digitized US domestic currency, and a 'Rest of World'(ROW) using the US dollar based on a set value for gold. The result would give absolute control of their domestic economy and tolerable control of the ROW. You heard it here first!
"Market forces are driving a de facto return to the gold standard," argues Lew Spellman. In a world where good collateral is scarce, and what does exist yields close to zero, "gold is stepping up to the plate." All that's left is for regulatory recognition, which may be coming in the form of a Basel proposal to make gold a bank capital Tier 1 asset. [View news story]
As well as being a store of value, gold is the numeraire to maintain the orderly rise up Ricardo's moving staircase. The present credit based system allows Ben, GS, et al, to set the order of relative value, possibly in a more subjective way. Too simple eh?
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Since the abandonment of the Breton Wood agreement the expansion of trillions of dollars in fiat money has formed the basis for the economy. The new system requires the perpetuation of the expansion of credit as a necessary and sufficient condition. Thus, any change would result in a substantial distortion in the system, ie a collapse. Or, for the Zombies in the crowd; the boat tied to the pier in the river is safe to fish from; untie the boat and you must paddle to fish near the pier; stop paddling and you go down the river with your paddle. Had you stayed fishing off the pier you.....
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I have noticed that when the financial oracles ( Bernanke et al) come out against some market policy, say, a revaluation of currency etc, the opposite occurs within a short time. I have made money on several of these "nevers". The 'experts' are simply warning their colleagues at the table to take a position, as the opposite is coming down the pipe. Bernanke, on gold, is a good example of this hypothesis. The dollar is very near to its 'last hurrah' and must define a numeraire or be packaged as two-ply in six packs.
One cannot fault the Keynsian Theory and practice. It can be easily misapplied by our politicians, say, 65B for an obsolete fighter aircraft made in USA and imported by Harper, (once it is proven to be air worthy, I suppose); or used, self destructing submarines.
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Fortunately our governments are protecting us from the common sense espoused in this article. The comedic build-up in Act I promises a hilarious Act II. For a successful ending we must eschew this toxic common sense and praise of accountability by paving the low road.
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Gold gets a sniff of $1,600, gaining 1% in minutes to $1,596/oz., with traders noting one buyer taking down 5.7K 1-month gold futures contracts as stoking the move. GLD +1% premarket. Silver comes along for the ride, SLV +1.1%. [View news story]
Napoleon pointed the gold standard stuff years ago, and he was a smart cookie.
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Clearly the US should re-establish some sort of stability ( as they did before by controlling the ownership of gold). This process will, I believe, be some sort of prescription for a double currency, viz, a digitized US domestic currency, and a 'Rest of World'(ROW) using the US dollar based on a set value for gold.
The result would give absolute control of their domestic economy and tolerable control of the ROW.
You heard it here first!
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"Market forces are driving a de facto return to the gold standard," argues Lew Spellman. In a world where good collateral is scarce, and what does exist yields close to zero, "gold is stepping up to the plate." All that's left is for regulatory recognition, which may be coming in the form of a Basel proposal to make gold a bank capital Tier 1 asset. [View news story]
Gold: The Fate That Awaits Once Fed Stimulus Ends [View article]
Or, for the Zombies in the crowd; the boat tied to the pier in the river is safe to fish from; untie the boat and you must paddle to fish near the pier; stop paddling and you go down the river with your paddle. Had you stayed fishing off the pier you.....
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The 'experts' are simply warning their colleagues at the table to take a position, as the opposite is coming down the pipe.
Bernanke, on gold, is a good example of this hypothesis. The dollar is very near to its 'last hurrah' and must define a numeraire or be packaged as two-ply in six packs.
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