Showing posts with label FED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FED. Show all posts

The Nexus

It’s time to delve into the murky waters of the nexus between money, central banks, governments, banks, and humankind. Most of my thoughts are focused on the present and the future, rather than the past, so that means there will be a certain amount of informed speculation. It’s much more interesting to look forward and consider where we are going (using current/recent events as a guide) rather than be constantly looking backwards for a guide to the future. Everything is subject to change at all times, so it’s best not to have a fixed view, but to treat matters on the balance of probabilities having considered all available evidence. So, some readers may need to cast aside any existing biases and prejudices they may have around this rather meaty subject, as the future is likely to make those biases irrelevant.

Where to begin? I’ll start by stating that I have seen plenty of evidence that money is and always has been debt, and that it simply evolved that way. The best anthropological evidence of this evolution is contained in the early sections of David Graeber’s book ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’.

Screwtales: Fed Gold and German Tanks

Satisfied that GM Jenkins has the skinny on gold price movements, I've been busy in the other cellar trying to finish a new database article. A few readers asked me to look at the National Geographic documentary titled 'Inside Americas Money Vault' (link link), specifically regarding bars shown in the first section of the clip - Bron Suchecki added a few more observations which made a small article worthwhile so here it is, for anyone interested.

With the new clip, we attempted the same as the recent 'Bob Pisani Revisited' article - to see if the database can tell a story about the gold bars we see on the camera. This is normally cut and dried - there is either a match in the data or there is not. There are plenty of great visuals in the clip, at high resolution.