The yield on the 10-year bond recently fell below the rate paid by the Fed on bank reserves. That is, a bank gets paid more to lend to the Fed for a day than to lend to the Treasury for ten years. There is not merely an inversion between the 2-year and the 10-year bonds. Nor even the 3-month and 10-year. Now the overnight and 10-year bond are inverted. We explain why this is absolutely crazy.
Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, the minimum wage, betting, and much more! Is nature or nurture more important? Why should a Keynesian be against the minimum wage? What is the trillion dollar tab waiting for us to pick up? Watch this whirlwind episode, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Is the dollar heading to new heights or new lows? Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital joins the Gold Exchange Podcast LIVE in New Orleans! Listen to Brent discuss the historic rise of the DXY, the effects on (d)emerging markets, and how he sees a currency and sovereign debt crisis playing out. Will Powell be able to solve Triffin's Dilemma? Can foreign central banks escape the zugzwang position? Will the financial justice warriors finally be vindicated? Watch the full episode to find out!
Fix the money, fix the world. Larry Lepard, Managing Partner at Equity Management Associates and vocal sound money advocate, joins the Gold Exchange Podcast LIVE in New Orleans! Listen to Ben and Larry discuss the Fed's doom loop, the dollar parabola problem, and what investors might consider as their monetary escape hatch.
Bitcoin has an intractable problem, and it is intrinsic to bitcoin itself.
Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group Peter Boockvar joins the Gold Exchange Podcast LIVE at the 2022 New Orleans Investment Conference to discuss market dynamics, the Fed pivot, unemployment and more! What's in store for the DXY, Yen and precious metals? Is the Fed pivot a question of when and why, not if? Can unemployment numbers remain low?
Last week the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which was recently valued at $32 billion, imploded. While the tragedy continues to play out, let’s summarize what has happened so far and what we can understand about the underlying economics.
Lobo Tiggre joins Ben and Keith LIVE in New Orleans for a special edition of the Gold Exchange podcast. Lobo is the founder and CEO of Louis James LLC, and the principal analyst and editor of IndependentSpeculator.com. Lobo breaks down why the tech sector will be hit hard by the "banana", why the inevitable does not mean the imminent, and what a changing dollar price will do to commodities. This episode is jam packed with thought provoking discussion, breaking news, and expert predictions, so do...
In the last installment of our Zombie Month series, we welcome James Dow and Glen Whitman onto the Gold Exchange Podcast. James and Glen are professors of finance and economics at CSUN. James and Glen discuss the Economics of the Undead. What should you pack for the zombie apocalypse? Are vampires the best immortal investors? What would be money in a zombie pandemic? Listen to Ben, Keith, James, and Glen get into everything from zombie insurance to undead investing.
In this latest installment of our Zombie Month series, we welcome Daniel Lacalle onto the Gold Exchange Podcast. Daniel is an economist, fund manager and professor of Global Economics. Daniel discusses the recent fallout in the UK, the pressures building up in the global economy, and the central banks' creation of zombie firms. Listen to Ben, Keith and Daniel get into everything from quantitative easing to zombie slaying.
Comedian, commentator, and author Dominic Frisby joins Ben and Keith LIVE in New Orleans for a special edition of the Gold Exchange podcast. Dominic untangles the mess that's happening in the UK including the movements in the pound and gilt markets as well as their latest tax and energy policies. With Liz Truss stepping down today as the UK's Prime Minister, you'll want to listen in to what Dominic has to say.
In our latest Zombie Month episode, we welcome Jim Brown, a Monetary Metals Board Member, onto the Gold Exchange Podcast. "Hard Money" Jim dissects the increasing zombification of the economy, financial repression, and the unprecedented moves taken by Central Banks around the world. This episode was filmed LIVE at the New Orleans Investment Conference! Listen to Ben, Keith and Jim break it all down from the latest interest rate hikes, how they will impact the zombie hoards, and everything in bet...
Zombie researcher Maximilian Göbel joins Keith and Ben on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the scariest creatures the Fed has created, ZOMBIES! Will hordes of zombie corporations take over our economy? How serious of a threat are zombies? Are zombies increasing or decreasing? What IS a zombie corporation? Find out the answers to all of these questions and more for the first installment of Monetary Metals Zombie Month, all this October!
Brien Lundin joins Keith and Dickson on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the storied history of the New Orleans Investment Conference, the inside scoop on past and future speakers, and how investors should think about gold in today's Fed-controlled credit environment.
Dan Oliver of Myrmikan Capital joins Keith and Dickson on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the history of credit bubbles, the inevitability of central bank failings, and what history can tell us about the current Fed's trajectory.
Tavi Costa of Crescat Capital joins Keith and Dickson on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the current state of the market, investing in good times and bad, and what future indicators to watch.
Jp Cortez of the Sound Money Defense League joins Keith and Ben on the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about problems with central planning, the morality of sound money, which states are topping the Sound Money Index and why, and what you can do to support grass roots initiatives in the fight for sound money.
Brent Johnson of Santiago Capital joins the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about the Dollar Milkshake Theory, how and why everyone should own gold, and what the perversity of the dollar system means for the rest of the worlds currencies.
Every week Merrill Lynch publishes a Capital Market Outlook Letter. The letters provide market commentary, research and analysis, and the occasional investment idea. Merrill Lynch (together with parent Bank of America) is the third largest brokerage firm, managing over $3 Trillion in client assets. When a firm of that size speaks up, you should listen.
Jim Forsythe of Citizens for Sound Money joins the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about how we can opt-out of dollars and get on the path back to sound money sanity. Keith and Jim discuss the systematic failure of public schooling, Bitcoin, what makes a better monetary system and how to get there, and the different ways to make gold and silver more accessible to more people.
Paul Belanger joins the Gold Exchange Podcast to talk about his gold analysis, why the Random Walk Hypothesis and Monte Carlo analysis are wrong and how much gold is the "right amount" to have in an investment portfolio. Keith and Paul also discuss inflation and the 1970's, the problems with data science, back tested models, and the failures of the mainstream financial consensus.
We welcome Travis Kimmel, AKA the Dollar Fatalist, the Wizard of Web1, the Crusher of Cryptocurrency dreams, and our favorite moniker, the illustrious BearLord, onto the Gold Exchange Podcast! Travis joins Keith to talk about Bitcoin acolytes' underlying Marxist philosophy, interest rate hikes, balance sheets, and so much more. Listen in to hear what the famous BearLord thinks about whether a recession cometh, and why it's insanity to hike rates in this market. This is a must-see episode! Follow...
In this episode, Monetary Metals' CEO Keith Weiner interviews President of United Precious Metals Association (UPMA) Larry Hilton. Larry was instrumental in passing various legal tender laws across the country. Together with UPMA, he is working on getting sound money to become a viable and profitable alternative to continuously debased fiat money.
Welcome to the third installment of our Ask Keith Anything video series. We published the call for questions far and wide to our readership, and the response was overwhelming! We received questions from all over the world. Now we've published the results! Keith answers your questions on Bitcoin, bottlenecks, banking, book recommendations, the gold and silver markets and so much more! Be sure to check out the show notes for a literal goldmine of information: https://monetary-metals.com/ask-keith-...
Welcome to the second installment of our Ask Keith Anything video series. We published the call for questions far and wide to our readership, and the response was overwhelming! We received questions from all over the world. Now we've published the results! Keith answers your questions on the Federal Reserve, Lord of The Rings, gold calculations, steak cuts and a lot more! Be sure to check out the show notes for a literal goldmine of information: https://monetary-metals.com/ask-keith-anything-par...
In the world of trends, history repeats more than it rhymes. Things which were considered “in” decades ago, reemerge as cool again decades later. From mom jeans to vinyl records and even Marxist ideology. The spotlight of today turns to things—both good and bad—once forgotten. Inflation is the latest trend to reemerge.
Welcome to the first installment of our Ask Keith Anything video series. We published the call for questions far and wide to our readership, and the response was overwhelming! We received questions from all over the world. Now we've published the results! Keith answers your questions on gold, inflation, Lord of The Rings, Russia and a lot more! Be sure to check out the show notes for a literal goldmine of information. And stay tuned for Parts II and III coming soon!
In this episode of the Gold Exchange Podcast CEO of Monetary Metals Keith Weiner interview President of Money Metals Exchange Stefan Gleason. Stefan is a seasoned business leader, investor, political strategist, and grassroots activist. Stefan has worked for National Right to Work and is now the Director of the Sound Money Defense League. In the episode Keith and Stefan discuss: -Repealing state and federal gold and silver taxes -Forced unionization and worker's rights -Grassroots activism -The ...
Last week we published our Gold Outlook 2022 Report, our annual analysis of the gold and silver markets from CEO Keith Weiner. In it, Keith explains the market players, dynamics, fallacies, and drivers for gold and silver. The report also includes analysis of Bitcoin and its effect on the gold market as well as inflation, interest rates and other macroeconomic factors. Last but not least, we give our price predictions for gold and silver for the year. In this week’s episode of the podcast, we fo...
CEO of Monetary Metals Keith Weiner interviews Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University Per Bylund on regulation, entrepreneurship and more. Dr. Bylund has published research in top journals on both entrepreneurship and management. He has also published in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Review of Austrian Economics. He has founded four business startups and writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur magazine. Per and Keith discuss: -The definition of entrepre...
