csmonitor.com - 11/16/2008
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Without the integrity and restraint a gold standard provides, America may be headed on a path to hyperinflation.
thegoldandoilguy.com - 11/24/2008
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online.wsj.com - 11/21/2008
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online.wsj.com —
It's a lost decade for Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. On Thursday, shares of the 139-year-old bank, the...
most admired on Wall Street, fell below the $53 price when they were first sold to the public. At $52 a share, Goldman stock has fallen 76% since the ...
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Goldman's Gold Standard Is Less Golden
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 11/22/2008
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com —
The action in gold and the miners is
very encouraging. The overall indices got hammered yesterday and...
gold did not follow. Nor did the gold miners. Hedge fund selling and leverage unwinding in gold may be complete or nearly complete. Here is a chart ...
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Sunday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
TOP STORIES Leaders welcome G20 action plan - BBC Forget Bretton Woods II – we need a gold standard - CSM Facing Shortfalls, States Seek Emergency Aid From Washington - Washington Post House will help automakers - Pelosi - CNN/Money Downturn Drags More Consumers Into Bankruptcy - NY Times Bretton Woods gold/dollar peg unlikely at G20 - Reuters The Only Cure for a Bubble... - Noland, Prudent Bear MARKETS/INVESTING Jeffrey Christian: Gold/Silver Could Spike - Hard Assets ...
Yet another call for a new gold standard
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
Not to be overshadowed by the recent blitz of calls for a new gold standard, Walker Todd, an economic consultant at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Cleveland writes in the Christian Science Monitor that, without one, we might be headed straight toward hyperinflation. ...
“Stable money is the key to recovery”
Rolfe Winkler —
... by Judy Shelton. She’s a regular contributor to the WSJ op-ed page and has long advocated a return to the gold standard. I thought I’d highlight it because another gold standard advocate appeared on a different op-ed page recently (see below). Could the gold standard argument go mainstream? ...
Features of the week
Finance Trends Matter —
... Marc Faber sees a potential stock rebound amidst reflation. 8. Treasuries fall, eroding biggest weekly gain since 1987. 9. Niall Fergusson explains the financial crisis in Vanity Fair. 10. Ron Paul on sound money and his latest exchange with Bernanke. 11. Forget Bretton Woods II - we need a gold standard. 12. The TARP is dead, long live TARP. ...
Inflated Egos Next Bubble To Deflate
GoldSeek.com —
... dominance. Naturally then, and tying into the larger understanding we are attempting to convey here today, its logical to contemplate that as individual egos are deflated in our society due to loss of wealth, eventually a profound swing will occur in the collective mind, and this change will spread around the world causing a mass abandonment of corrupt present day fiat regimes. Of course the $ will be at the lead in such a move as it loses ...
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What's our gold standard?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 3/27/2009 — I've just reread Eichengreen and Temin, The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, which does a great job of showing how the "gold mentality" - what they call mentalite, with an accent - paralyzed policymakers. (The longer-form version, with more ...
The Gold Standard in One Easy Quote
angrybear.blogspot.com 11/14/2008 — Warren Buffett : [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
The end of Bretton Woods 2?
blogs.cfr.org 10/22/2008 — In late 2004, Nouriel Roubini and I wrote that “the tensions created [by the Bretton Woods 2 system] are large, large enough to crack the system in the next three to four years.” In a 2005 Wall Street Journal online debate with Michael Dooley I tried ...
The Six Biggest Myths about Gold
news.goldseek.com 11/21/2008 — Gold. People either love it or hate it. There aren’t many who feel ambivalent toward it. Unfortunately, gold is deeply misunderstood by investors, and that misunderstanding is hurting their portfolio returns. Many in the investment community trot out ...
Bretton Woods 2 and the current crisis: any link?
blogs.cfr.org 12/1/2008 — Last week, I attended a conference on international financial reform. These kinds of conferences don’t really produce consensus; there is no need to agree on anything. But there was a sense — at least I thought — among the speakers ...
Someone’s making money on Gold
optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com 11/7/2008 —
Y’all seen those U.S. mint commercial on CNBC? The one selling tenth-of-an-ounce gold coins? Here’s a screen capture. Might be time to film a new one now that gold’s spot price has fallen 35% below the government’s asking ...
Bretton Woods 2, R.I.P.
nakedcapitalism.com 10/22/2008 — A wide range of commentators, including your humble blogger, have worried about the clearly untenable system known as global imbalances, or more formally, Bretton Woods 2. That was the tacit arrangement under which the US ran significant current ...
Bretton Woods, a failure timeline.
econospeak.blogspot.com 11/18/2008 — Michael Moffit, in his 1983 book 'The World's Money - International Banking from Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency'[1] has been very helpful this week. He presents an economic history that makes it clear as to why national economies started to ...
Recent Gold Volatility
vixandmore.blogspot.com 11/28/2008 — I have been receiving quite a few questions about gold and gold volatility lately, so with gold receiving a lot of attention in the press, I thought this would be a good time to check in on the commodity and on the CBOE’s gold volatility index ( GVZ ...
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