Keith Weiner
PhD in Economics, CEO of Monetary Metals
Dr. Keith Weiner is the CEO of Monetary Metals and the president of the Gold Standard Institute USA. Keith is a leading authority in the areas of gold, money, and credit and has made important contributions to the development of trading techniques founded upon the analysis of bid-ask spreads. Keith is a sought after speaker and regularly writes on economics. He is an Objectivist, and has his PhD from the New Austrian School of Economics. His website is www.monetary-metals.com.
Keith Weiner Articles
Medieval thinkers were tempted to believe that if you throw a rock it flies straight until it runs out of force, and then it falls straight down. Economists are tempted to think of prices as a linear function of the “money supply”, and...
In this Part VI, we look at The End. At the beginning of Part I, I noted in passing that we now have a positive feedback loop that is causing us to spiral into the black hole of zero interest. In astrophysics, the theory says that a black...
In this report, we look at supply and demand fundamentals in the gold and silver markets. In brief, the basis and cobasis are spreads between the spot and futures market. A rising basis and falling cobasis indicate increasing abundance. A...
There is a tradable approach to analyzing the fundamentals of supply and demand in the monetary metals markets. This article is a brief summary of the approach we take at Monetary Metals (and we also released a video that presents some of...
It is well known that in 1933, President Roosevelt confiscated the gold of U.S. citizens and made possession of gold illegal. He gave gold owners about $20 an ounce and when he was done, he raised the gold price to $35. The common telling...
In Part I ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/theory-interest-and-prices-paper-curre... ), we looked at the concepts of nonlinearity, dynamics, multivariate, state, and contiguity. We showed that whatever the relationship may be between...
In Part I ( http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/theory-interest-and-prices-paper-curre... ) , I made several points. First, that in the last gold bear market, miners capitulated after prices were low and falling for a long time. Then they...
I coined the term temporary backwardation in March of last year. This is what I said:
But in the “new normal”, post 2008, the expiring gold or silver future often flirts with or even slips into backwardation for a period before expiry. ...
In Part I, we looked at the concepts of nonlinearity, dynamics, multivariate, state, and contiguity. We showed that whatever the relationship may be between prices and the money supply in irredeemable paper currency, it is not a simple...
Selling Low And Buying High: Hedging By The Gold Miners
Hedging is a controversial topic, probably as controversial as any I have written about. Nevertheless, I want to share my thoughts and hopefully add something new to the topic.
