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Speculating On The Gold Supply

By |2014-07-22T10:01:27-04:00July 22nd, 2014|Commodities, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

What follows here, in the interest of full disclosure, is nothing more than speculative conjecture on my part. This is due mostly to the opacity that dominates gold “markets” and trading oddities that follow from it. My thoughts here are based on gut instinct about recent observations, but that is about as much to solidify any analysis as can be [...]

Sunday Gold Fix – The Travails of Paper Gold

By |2013-05-05T22:46:27-04:00May 5th, 2013|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The alchemists of Dark Ages lore had nothing on Wall Street. Like everything else in financial evolution, it begins as a good idea and gets warped and bastardized into a means of scalping “free money” for banks. This is particularly true in the age of prop accounts and banks masquerading as prudent intermediaries but operating as the largest hedge funds [...]

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