Have you thought
of gold paper or paint on the inside bak of the Ikea shelves?
Not exact matches
What's more, the Citi strategists doubt whether the world even needs a new version
of gold, when governments long ago stopped pegging the value
of paper currency to the metal: «Is a fixed supply
of money, a digital
gold standard, really superior to a flexible money supply?»
While most
of his proposals — «to abandon the
gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus
of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique
of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds
of conventional wisdom» although a recent
paper by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
While silver, platinum, and palladium are slightly more correlated to stocks due to their role in the industry (more on that later), they still offer many
of the same protections as
gold: namely that they won't evaporate in an instant the way
paper assets can.
That is the essence
of today's «
paper gold,» and there is little Europe or Asia can do about the situation except reject the dollar and create their own alternative financial system.
However much
of the world wants this plain
paper in their pocket or in their bank account and as such this cumulative full faith in the dollar makes it a new»
gold standard» that central banks the world over crave.
Like
gold, cryptos are favored by those who have a deep distrust
of fiat currency, or
paper money.
When economies take a severe downturn and
paper money gets devalued, a stash
of gold can save you from losing your shirt.
Detractors
of paper money have always been fixated by the absence
of gold to back it up, but they fail to recognize what really makes a currency accepted and secure — the government guarantee and the good sense
of the sovereign not to abuse its franchise.
Citizens were then given
paper dollars for their
gold, at a price
of $ 20.67 per ounce.
To defend itself, the IMF is proposing to act as a «central bank» creating what was called «
paper gold» in the late 1960s — artificial credit in the form
of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
I don't know if Ralph Benko is one
of them, but he has written on this subject before and very recently wrote two articles (here and here) in Forbes, which has traditionally been sympathetic to the
gold cause, in which he too cites Austin's
paper and adds to the chorus:
In his January 2012
paper entitled «The Seasonality
of Gold — Jewelery Demand and Investor Behavior», Dirk Baur examines calendar month seasonality of the price of g
Gold — Jewelery Demand and Investor Behavior», Dirk Baur examines calendar month seasonality
of the price
of goldgold.
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.
In their September 2011
paper entitled «A Comparative Analysis
of the Investment Characteristics
of Alternative
Gold Assets», Tim Pullen, Karen Benson and Robert Faff examine the diversification, hedging and safe haven properties of gold bullion, ten gold stocks, 11 gold mutual funds and two gold exchange traded funds (ET
Gold Assets», Tim Pullen, Karen Benson and Robert Faff examine the diversification, hedging and safe haven properties
of gold bullion, ten gold stocks, 11 gold mutual funds and two gold exchange traded funds (ET
gold bullion, ten
gold stocks, 11 gold mutual funds and two gold exchange traded funds (ET
gold stocks, 11
gold mutual funds and two gold exchange traded funds (ET
gold mutual funds and two
gold exchange traded funds (ET
gold exchange traded funds (ETFs).
In the October 2012 draft
of their
paper entitled «A
Gold Bubble?»
In their September 2010
paper entitled «Hedges and Safe Havens — An Examination
of Stocks, Bonds, Oil,
Gold and the Dollar», Cetin Ciner, Constantin Gurdgiev and Brian Lucey investigate pairwise hedging and safe haven relationships among these five major assets / asset classes.
In their February 2017
paper entitled «Bayesian Model Averaging, Ordinary Least Squares and the Price
of Gold», Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey analyze a large set of factors that potentially influence the price of gold via two methods: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS, scatter plot) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA, accounting for model uncertain
Gold», Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey analyze a large set
of factors that potentially influence the price
of gold via two methods: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS, scatter plot) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA, accounting for model uncertain
gold via two methods: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS, scatter plot) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA, accounting for model uncertainty).
In fact, the pricing mechanisms that rule futures contracts, which in turn, establish real - world asset pricing, can be entirely disconnected from physical supply and demand determinants, especially in the
paper gold and
paper silver worlds
of London and New York.
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.
In addition to the possible reasons we have suggested in this report, we know that history is on the side
of gold versus
paper currency.
Indeed, as Roger Garrison notes, «a
paper standard administered by an irresponsible monetary authority may drive the monetary value
of gold so high that more resource costs are incurred under the
paper standard than would have been incurred under a
gold standard.»
Signs
of stress that reflect a growing shortage
of physical
gold to support the
paper market include the prolonged backwardation
of the co-basis which has existed now for 3 1/2 years and now approaching extremes last seen at the bottom
of the
gold market at year end 2008:
It explains how the supply
of paper gold can depress the price
of physical
gold despite the fact that synthetic sellers do not possess any
gold to sell.
Knowing that their extensive silver was worth little, what better way to cash in on it than get a piece
of paper that says the silver can be exchanged for
gold, government - guaranteed?
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.
Annual world
gold production seems to be about to decline, Clint Siegner
of Money Metals Exchange writes this week, but there's never any shortage
of «
paper gold,» claims to
gold that may not exist.
While geopolitical and economic factors are pushing the price
of gold higher, the extreme dislocation between the western Central Bank short position in
gold via several different forms
of paper gold and the amount
of available physical
gold to deliver into buyers» hands is going to move
gold in a way that will shock and awe everyone except maybe the hardiest
gold «bugs.»
The assertion that the
gold price has been successfully manipulated downward over a great many years via the relentless selling
of «
paper gold» contains more than a few logical and factual holes.
Law believed that much
of the strength
of France was lying unused and that the innovation
of paper money, backed not by
gold but by credit, could re-invigorate France.
It is also worth pointing out that downward pressure on the price
of «
paper»
gold that was not supported by the «physical» market would inevitably result in the price
of «
paper»
gold making a sustained and substantial move below the price
of the physical commodity, which hasn't happened.
The Twilight Zone
of paper promises, politicians, central bankers, and massive, unbelievable, unpayable debt where some investments «pay» negative interest; or
gold and silver?
Holders
of paper claims to
gold will receive polite and apologetic letters from intermediaries offering to settle in cash at prices well below the physical market.
I know it's hard for most
of you to believe that
Gold and Silver will surpass their old January 1980 highs, but that is what a 20 + year generational bear market will do to a whole generation
of investors who have grown up with falling real assets (
Gold, Silver and commodities) and rising
paper assets (stocks and bonds).
A century ago, when the terms were still current, in most industrialized economies «money proper» consisted
of gold coins, while
paper banknotes and demand deposits that were redeemable in
gold were mere money substitutes.
A
Paper Tiger was the label that was applied to the USA as the Oil Sheiks couldn't wait to get out
of Dollars and into
Gold and Swiss Franks (would you believe you had to pay 20 % negative interest if you wanted to keep more than $ 100,000 in SF).
The supply
of gold, unlike
paper money, is limited.
And that is a nightmare scenario because the primary corporate objective
of the typical Vancouver promoter lies not in the realm
of a new
gold discovery or near - term cash flow or added reserves, but rather in the novel concept
of «distribution» and by that I don't refer to the «distribution»
of profits to shareholders by way
of dividends but rather the distribution
of the one - cent
paper they manufactured when they put the shell together.
Because the price - movement
of paper gold relative to the size
of the Comex open interest is running in higher in defiance.
(1) It issues and redeems
paper money — United States and Treasury notes;... (4) it transfers money to move the crops;... (6) it acts as a regulator
of the rate
of discount by contracting and expanding the currency through its operations upon the deposits in banks and in its own vaults; (7) it keeps the
gold reserve
of the country.
Own enough
gold that, in the event
of a crisis, you will feel comfortable that you have enough «real savings»... but don't own so much that you're constantly worrying about the
paper price.
So the notion
of trading a stack
of paper currency for
gold, only to trade the
gold back for a taller stack
of paper currency misses the point entirely.
Based on yesterday's response in the
paper gold market in NYC after the Fed's rate hike announcement, it seems that the western Central Banks / bullion banks are losing control
of the bullion market.
The moral
of this story is that you should continue to exchange some
of what David Morgan has so famously called «
paper promises» for more physical
gold and silver — and if you're still on the fence about getting started, get a move on!
So, with the recent spike in aluminum prices, why is it that a commodity seemingly about to be constrained by tariffs can spike 27 % in eight weeks on «supply fears» while freighters full
of gold are allegedly being off - loaded in Hong Kong with the
paper gold trading volumes exceedingly annual mine output?
In their May 2015
paper entitled «Lumber: Worth Its Weight in
Gold: Offense and Defense in Active Portfolio Management», Charles Bilello and Michael Gayed examine the recent relative performance of lumber (a proxy for economic activity via construction) and gold (a safe haven) as an indicator of future stock market and bond market performa
Gold: Offense and Defense in Active Portfolio Management», Charles Bilello and Michael Gayed examine the recent relative performance
of lumber (a proxy for economic activity via construction) and
gold (a safe haven) as an indicator of future stock market and bond market performa
gold (a safe haven) as an indicator
of future stock market and bond market performance.
Physical
gold that may be suffering from a falling domestic fiat currency price is still exponentially more valuable than devaluing
paper fiat currencies, as anyone living in the Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, and in any number
of dozens
of other emerging markets have unfortunately rapidly learned in the past few years.
by During this banker raid on
paper gold and
paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels
of the mass media
of a
gold collapse to sub-par $ 1000 an ounce prices, we were busy informing our readers about the «Lies
of Nouriel Roubini» (whose sole purpose in life, -LSB-...]
In 1716, Law received the French government's permission to establish a national bank, the Banque Générale, which took in deposits
of gold and silver and issued «
paper» bank notes in return.