HSBC Limits Withdrawals – Are Banks Safe Places to Keep Your Money?

Are Banks Safe? Check out the Smaulgld Gold Buying Guide Check out the Smaulgld Silver Buying Guide Are banks a safe place for money? Is the Concept of Money in the Bank Obsolete? Podcast Summary: 0:00-5:10 Introduction/Review of the Week’s Economic Calendar 5:10-8:48 Discussion of whether the Fed will take stock market levels into account Read More →

Predatory Pricing Should Be Legal

Predatory Pricing Should Predatory Pricing be Legal? Predatory pricing may be deemed illegal under U.S. antitrust laws. But shouldn’t be. It has been argued that predatory pricing should be an illegal strategy. Predatory pricing, however, results in lower prices for consumers. Competitors may be harmed, but the consumer benefits. For anti competitive behavior to be Read More →

How Germany and China Could Mess Up the Fed’s Taper Plans

How Germany and China May Throw off the Fed’s Taper Plans Podcast Summary: 0:00-3:00 Intro Will The Fed Taper?/Germany’s Gold and Manipulation 3:00-6:54 Will the Fed continue to taper next week? Louis notes that even with another taper the current QE represents a massive increase in the amount of money printed. Louis predicts some sort Read More →

How QE Causes Millennials and Senior Citizens to Compete for Jobs

QE Causes Millennials and Senior Citizens to Compete For Jobs Millennials, Senior Citizen and The Federal Reserve See also Millennials: Not Part of the Club Yet Podcast Summary: 0:00-2:45 Intro 2:45-4:25 Review of what the Fed Presidents are saying. 4:25-9:30-How the Fed communicates their position to control interest rates and the dollar; why the Fed Read More →

Millennials: Not Part of The Club Yet

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Millennials: Not Part of the Club Many millennials are saddled with crushing student loan debt,are unemployed or underemployed and are unable to purchases homes of their own. The culprit? Quantitative Easing. Check out the Smaulgld Gold Buying Guide Check out the Smaulgld Silver Buying Guide “You know, a lot of people say, this is just Read More →

The Fed Starts Talking About its Exit From QE

The Fed Talks About Ending QE Here they go again! Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Incoming Fed Chair Janet Yellen, and a few regional Fed Presidents have been making the rounds explaining their recent decision to taper quantitative easing (QE) – the Fed’s $85 billion a month bond buying program. The theme from the Read More →

2014 Predictions For Gold and Silver

2013 Year in Review Gold & Silver Predictions 2014 Podcast Summary 0:00-5:00 Introduction 5:00-11:45 discussion of the housing market, interest rates and the Federal Reserve, new mortgage rules for 2014, adjustable rate mortgages, review of Bernanke’s tenure as Fed chairman. 11:45-18:45 stock market and interest rate predictions for 2014 – the Fed’s taper plans and Read More →

What Happens After the Next Stock Market Crash? Poll

The Federal reserve has come to the rescue many times in the past twenty five years

What Will You Do if The Stock Market Crashes? If the stock market crashes it will take the economy and real estate market down with it. Fractional American Gold Eagles in 1/10, 1/4 and 1/2 oz Sizes for Smaller Budgets “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again” Mother Read More →

Predictions For 2014 – Podcast 12.30.13

2014 Predictions. 2013 Year in Review Predictions for 2014 Podcast Summary 0:00-3:40 Introduction 3:40-10:30 Discussion of GDP and quantitative easing (QE); scarcity in the economy- jobs, wages, doctors, home sales and increases in real estate and stock market prices; intervention and manipulation of markets by the Fed; papering over the structural scarcity of the economy; Read More →

The Year in Review – Top Smauldgld Posts of 2013

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Smaulgld.com was launched on April 28 this year with the blog post “Student Loans and Unemployment are Holding Back the Economy and Real Estate Market” (560 views). Since then we have published over 120 posts and the site has received nearly 50,000 unique visitors and over 75,000 page views. While the bulk of Smaulgld.com’s visitors Read More →