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James Turk is founder and chairman of GoldMoney, which provides a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold, silver and platinum online using the digital gold currency for which he was...

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In 2017, the total market for such currencies topped $ 100 billion as investors of all stripes began to embrace them as an alternate asset class akin to gold.

She asked them to consider a safe harbor for virtual currency startups, and to consider only regulating exchanges that change so - called fiat currencies — or legal tender that's not backed by physical commodities like gold — into virtual ones.

But as I live in the real world, I buy gold, even though I am optimistic we'll get through this rough patch; because I simply don't trust the bas * % * ds who are driving this ship with 100 % of my money in dollars, or any fiat currency, for that matter.»

Also, cryptocurrency investors are preparing for another Bitcoin hard fork next week, in which enthusiasts are planning to split off a second version of the digital currency known as Bitcoin Gold.

Jim Rickards, the author of «Currency Wars,» «The Death of Money,» and «The New Case for Gold,» and most recently «The Road to Ruin,» is no stranger to financial meltdowns.

Lee Shau Kee fled China for Hong Kong before the Communist takeover in 1948, working in commodities like gold and currency exchange before founding Henderson Land Development in 1973.

Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped to lift assets priced in the U.S. currency, with gold last week registering a fourth straight weekly gain for the first time since April.

While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

A meteoric crypto currency market triggered a gold rush for cyber criminals.

Brexit was boost for the virtual currency, which in some ways is become to the digital age what gold has always been for people worried about current affairs.

As for the British example at the end of the 19th Century, in those days currency was part of reserve accumulation, but much if not most reserves were in the form of gold or silver, and while Britain had the most important reserve currency, the difference between central bank holdings of sterling and central bank holdings of other gold - based currencies, like the franc, were pretty small relative to total trade.

In his speech, Yifei emphasized the importance of 2018 for China's long - term economic strategy, and discussed how the central bank's gold and silver department used problem - oriented, market - oriented, and livelihood - oriented «philosophy, style and methods» to promote reform and innovation in «key areas» of «currency bullion» as well as «currency gold and silver business.»

«Ripple changes the dynamics of value, allowing for a real - time market that can instantly trade between gold, currency, mobile minutes, and more,» said Steven Feldman, co-founder and CEO of GBI.

For advocates of bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies surging in value, the gold may be in the shares of the companies that produce the computer processors and chips used to create the digital currencies in the process that's become known as mining.

And probably to dump all other foreign fiat currencies for gold as well.

When the dollar (and for that matter all other national currencies) can not be redeemed for either gold or silver, it is inherently «weak» and ultimately worthless.

Prices in a gold - backed currency will actually fall, raising living standards for everyone.

In prior comments, and in pieces like Going for the Gold and Valuing Foreign Currencies, I've frequently noted the importance of real (after inflation) interest rate pressures in driving commodity and currency fluctuations.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

To recap, Bitcoin is an attempt to create a distributed, open - source form of virtual currency that relies not on gold bars in Fort Knox or the monetary policy of a central bank for its value, but on a computerized ecosystem.

Turkey's demand for gold surged by more than a third in the first quarter, as consumers flocked to the precious metal as a protection against a tumbling currency and rising inflation.

The dollar is also used as the standard unit of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and petroleum.

Central banks are notorious for breaking their promises to keep a fixed rate between the local currency and gold, or between the local currency and some external currency.

They consider a range of arguments for owning gold, such as: (1) gold hedges inflation; (2) gold hedges currency decline; (3) gold is attractive when other assets are not; (4) gold is a safe haven in times of crisis; (5) gold is a de facto world currency; and, (6) central banks and investors in aggregate are still underweighting gold.

Investors turn to gold for safety when they perceive that risks are rising including financial, economic and currency risks as well as political risks affecting ownership rights such as expropriation, a capital controls and increased taxation.

Unlike in the past, when you could exchange your dollars or any other currency for physical gold, fiat currency is not backed up by anything else than a number printed on a piece of paper.

There is no clear - cut evidence that the growth in the crypto - currency market has led to stagnation in the prices of precious metals, but looking at the investments pouring into cryptos, especially the heavyweights, one can assume that digital currencies have billed themselves as a safe haven for investors to park their funds, thereby replacing gold, which for decades has been the go - to asset class.

I would expect the currency banks issue to be redeemable for gold, or dollars, or Swiss francs, or something else, depending on historical context.

Advocates of bitcoin often compare the digital currency to gold for its finite supply and store - of - value characteristics.

Institutional investors rarely invest in the precious metal, let alone crypto - currencies for that matter, and according to them, investments in gold are generally carried out by retail investors in countries such as India and China, with central banks contributing to the rest of the global demand.

by The banking - government industrial complex has been pulling the wool over investors» eyes for years when it comes to getting the masses to keep their savings tied up in ever rapidly devaluing fiat currencies instead of intelligently converting them into the only real money out there — physical gold and physical silver — that has -LSB-...]

This factor has continued to be supportive for the currency more recently, as has the sharp rise in the price of gold (see Box B in the previous chapter).

Such a hypothesis, in our opinion, does much to explain the incongruity of a declining gold price while fundamentals for paper currency, and the US dollar in particular, obviously deteriorate; while demand for physical gold has exceeded new mine supply for several years running; and while above - ground 400 - ounce.999 gold bars located in London, New York, and other financial capitals (in cohabitation with speculative trading activity in paper markets) have steadily dwindled and disappeared into Asian financial centers reformulated as.9999 kilo bars.

But when new discoveries of gold are made, market participants do not begin to hoard paper or to set up printing presses for the issue of unbacked currency.

This pullback in the currency is a welcome sight for gold.

When the fiat Federal Reserve «dollar» finally loses its status as the world's reserve currency, gold and silver will have then begun to make an upward price adjustment or will begin to make the upward adjustment, and all who paid much higher prices for gold and silver will stop whining about price.

The market's largest producers, including Newcrest Mining, Evolution Mining and Northern Star Resources, have also benefited from recognition that the recent rise in the US - dollar gold price, a weak local currency and lower costs across the sector have created significant positive tailwinds for Australian gold miners.

Selling gold short has therefore been an alternative to the «yen - carry» trade which saw market participants fund investments in various markets by borrowing yen (at almost zero cost due to the low interest rates in Japan) and selling it for other currencies, mostly US dollars.

by Yesterday the Bank of England cut its main interest rate from 0.5 % to 0.25 % for the first time, marking its first interest rate change since March 2009, and provided all of us with more reasons to keep converting fiat currencies into physical gold and physical silver.

In a future, hard anchor monetary system, the Federal Reserve could issue and redeem its currency for U.S. treasury bills rather than gold or other anchor goods and services.

In fact, for some markets, including gold, silver, copper and the major currencies, the COT reports are by far the best indicators of sentiment.

We believe that the stage has been set for a significant repricing of gold in all currencies, including the US dollar.

This research led him to discover the inherent value of gold and silver, and their lasting superiority over currency and paper assets — sparking a passion for precious metals.

SDR's were started in 1969 and are already used for international transactions would be backed by gold in the Sino - Soviet plan and used as a reserve currency.

But we see the long - term pressures on the dollar remain firmly in place, which should bode well for gold and non-US dollar hard currencies.

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A stronger dollar is negative for gold demand as it makes the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies.

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