Inflation and Prices

Inflation and Prices

Why do we have inflation and deflation? Why do we need to have such a paradigm in modern financial markets?  Inflation is a term associated with a growing economy and rising prices.  Central banks mandate a 2% inflation target so that prices will rise, stimulating...
Economy and Prices

Economy and Prices

In an interesting article regarding the level of money and prices from Alasdair Macleod, he describes the Keynesian approach to our monetary madness. Unsound money printed to oblivion never succeeds, just as the central banks’ interpretations of the monetary effects...
Is Bitcoin Digital Gold?

Is Bitcoin Digital Gold?

Is Bitcoin Digital Gold?  When you think of Gold, what do you think of? Wealth, power, money? For thousands of years, mankind has used gold as a means of value to measure merchandise against in order to buy & sell. In the last 50 years, we have seen Gold increase...
Gold Prices Rally Amid Market Headwinds

Gold Prices Rally Amid Market Headwinds

With so much focus centered on grand-scale and largely political issues — the upcoming presidential transition, eroding U.S.-Russia relations, and even the rise, fall, and likely rise again of bitcoin — one sector has gone largely ignored: precious metals....