This week in our musings, we bring you some slightly more unusual items that we have found interesting…. Central Banks Buy Gold A master bullion trader sets the CFTC straight on manipulation Treasuries Riskier Than Toilet Paper! Fed-up Mainstream journalist starts web-site Central Banks Buy Gold From the Daily Bell comes this report…. Central...

Will the US inflate its way out of it’s debt problem or will it devalue the dollar?  Darryl Schoon explains the subtle differences of these two outcomes in this guest article.  We heard Darryl speak very eloquently last year (see our previous take on his lecture: China and the introduction of paper money) and his thoughts are worth following...

As usual in these weekly musings, we present items in the news media and the blogosphere that have caught our attention during the previous week…..  Money market fund redemption freezes? Who will buy Treasury bonds this year? Chinese car sales roaring ahead (and they all need fuel!) GDXJ – gold juniors ETF Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar...

As we mentioned in this previous article (China and the introduction of paper money), in November we attended a conference in Canberra Australia hosted by the Gold Standard Institute.  The main speaker was Professor Antal Fekete.  Professor Fekete is an author, mathematician, monetary scientist and educator.  Below we paraphrase the Professors lecture on the...

Weekly Wanderings 12 October 2009 As usual in these weekly musings we present you with interesting items we’ve come across during the week… Casey Research is one of the most respected research groups studying the precious metals investment arena and more generally, resource stock opportunities in all commodities. The group publishes a number of investment...