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  • Is it possible for the government to artificially lower the price of gold/silver?

    My wife and I save on a regular basis. I personally love the idea of owning precious metals, and do purchase them often. We're throwing around the idea of keeping all or at least most of our cash above our emergency savings in precious metals. On one hand, I can see a huge safety net in converting...
    Posted to Newbies by Elijah on Thu, May 2 2013

  • Anti-Gold

    I used to believe in protectionism. Several users here tried to persist me to abandoned it, but they did not take me seriously. But after reading Milton Friedman, I can say that I am absolutely convinced that protectionism is nonsensical > this is because the foreigners don't sell goods for dollars...
    Posted to Economics Questions by Buzz Killington on Thu, Mar 28 2013

  • If gold was money, how would foreign investment work?

    I've gotten into several debates with a Keynesian friend of mine who believes that the reason the gold standard was left was not because the government wanted to go to war or something, but because "the people demanded it". He considers gold as "outdated", and much too heavy to...
    Posted to Economics Questions by The One Freeman on Thu, Oct 18 2012

  • LETS, Local Exchange Trading Systems, local money, the Swiss WIR system, etc.

    Sorry, I couldn't find a topic about this with the search engine. A search for LETS brings you to let's a search for local exchange brings you to stock exchange , etc. So what is the Austrian view or your view of local monies in the current economic climate? Are they valuable? In Germany, 65...
    Posted to Economics Questions by liberation on Mon, Oct 15 2012

  • Steve Forbes: How to Bring Back America

    The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present an incredibly powerful interview with Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. The company’s flagship publication, FORBES , is the leading business magazine. Combined with international and licensee editions, FORBES reaches more...
    Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Jul 6 2012
    Filed under: Gold, silver, Ben Bernanke, U.S. dollar, gold standard, Utah Legal Tender Act, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, fiat money, U.S. economic policy, Ronald Reagan, health insurance, sound money, Lech Walesa, IRS, Heritage Foundation, tax reform, ObamacCare, Internal Revenue Service, Steve Forbes, taxes, free market, Princeton University, deregulation, health care

  • John Embry on Gold, Silver, Currencies and Commodities

    The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present the following insightful interview with John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of Sprott Asset Management LP, where he plays an instrumental role in the corporate and investment policy of the firm. Mr. Embry, who is a world renowned expert on the gold...
    Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
    Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, inflation, Gold, Euro, Hyperinflation, silver, FOMC, Ben Bernanke, U.S. dollar, gold standard, European Central Bank, ECB, People's Bank of China, John Embry, Federal Reserve Open Market Committee, Sprott Asset Management, Eric Sprott, PBoC

  • Value Subjectivism and Monetary Instability

    Subjectivism is the philosophy that reality is what we perceive to be real and that no underlying, true reality exists independent of human perception. In other words, the nature of reality for an individual person is dependent on that individual's own consciousness. It follows that each person experiences...
    Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
    Filed under: Federal reserve, Euro, Alan Greenspan, U.S. dollar, gold standard, John Maynard Keynes, British pound, European Central Bank, Japanese yen, counterparty, Subjectivism. Objectivism, Aynd Rand, moral hazard, price stability, central banking, confidence, economic volatility, economic rent seeking, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, currency debasement, fiat money, Austrian economics, François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

  • States Can Financially Break Away from Federal Government

    As you may know, the state of Utah passed a Legal Tender Act last year authorizing the use of federally minted gold and silver coins as money in the state of Utah. Now, legislators in other states, many of whom attended the Monetary Summit, are evaluating similar legislation. Among other things, this...
    Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
    Filed under: Federal reserve, U.S. dollar, financial fraud, federal deficit, gold standard, federal debt

  • Gold as Money: FAQ

    Some responses to common objections about the use of gold as money: 1. There simply is not enough gold for it to be used as money. This is just like saying “we cannot possibly measure the size of microbes because inches are too large”. An excellent counterpoint to this line of thinking is...
    Posted to Austrian Economics by Mr FixIt on Fri, Jun 10 2011
    Filed under: Deflation, FAQ, Gold, Gold Standard, Investment, Money

  • The Money Problem

    The Money Problem by Alex Merced While people like me definitely see the virtue of a gold standard, even a gold standard in any of it's historical incarnations still have one fundamental problem, they are a monopoly. I can discuss how the gold standard restrains government which promotes peace and...
    Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Fri, Oct 22 2010
    Filed under: Money, Currency, Diversification, Competing Currencies, Monopoly, Gold Standard
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