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KeithGram: The LIBOR Scandal
By now, most readers are aware that Barclays and probably many other banks have been caught red-handed gaming the London Inter-Bank Offer Rate (LIBOR). No, I am not going to analyze the “cause”, call...
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Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital
I have written other pieces on the topic of fractional reserve banking duration mismatch, which is when someone borrows short-term money to lend long-term and how falling interest rates actually...
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Open Letter To Ted Butler Of Butler Research
Keith WeinerPresident, Gold Standard Institute USA Oct 2, 2012 Dear Mr. Butler: I read your article about silver manipulation at 24hgold.com. I am responding as someone who wants free markets. I...
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KeithGram: Search and Replace
“Tax the rich, because blah blah blah and it will help the economy by yada yada yada…” We should do a global search and replace on “tax” and replace with “punishment”. And replace all instances of...
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Book Review: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government
In Free Market Revolution, co-authors Yaron Brook and Don Watkins, colleagues at the Ayn Rand Institute, undertook a difficult task. Since Ayn Rand made the case for egoism as the morality of...
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KeithGram: Gold — Pieces Of 50
As we move forwards towards a gold standard, we will need many new innovations (as well as a rediscovery of old things that have long been forgotten). At the Gold Symposium in Sydney Australia, I saw...
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Open Letter to Hugo Salinas Price
Keith WeinerPresident, Gold Standard Institute USAWeiner (dot) Keith (at) Gmail (dot) Com Nov 7, 2012 Re: Open Letter to Hugo Salinas Price Dear Mr. Price: I read your piece: “On the Use of Gold Coins...
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The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part I*
*It turns out that we did not publish Part 1 of Keith’s article on “The Unadulterated Gold Standard”. So apologies to readers who read Part II before Part I. Here it is. — JH The choice of the word...
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The Trillion Dollar Coin
There has been much buzz in the past few days about a truly horrible idea. Instead of having to negotiate with Congress to raise the debt ceiling so the Treasury Department can sell more bonds to pay...
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The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part IV (Intro to Real Bills)
In Part I (http://keithweiner.posterous.com/unadulterated-gold-standard-part-i), we looked at the period prior to and during the time of what we now call the Classical Gold Standard. It should be...
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