Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Gold in Backwardation
- Trace Mayer submits: There has been quite a bit of chatter about gold going into backwardation instead of being in its regular state of contango. These are adjectives for futures contracts on commodities and not types of dances. Gold has been in backwardation briefly as of late but it will...
- External links 2008-12-09
- The Problem with GLD and SLV ETFs
- Trace Mayer submits: The ’sweat of the sun’ and ‘tears of the moon’ are singularly unique commodities. They function as unencumbered equity and function as a presentation currency. For this singular reason they are largely hoarded, not consumed, and serve to protect against despotic government inroads by preventing confiscation through...
- External links 2008-12-14
- Looking Toward 2009
- Trace Mayer submits: I suppose 2009 will be an interesting year. I think the financial crisis is barely getting started so there should be plenty to write about. There are a lot of interesting developments happening so 2009 will be a year of change. Back in June after...
- External links 2008-12-31
- How the Treasury Bubble Will Burst and Why
- Trace Mayer submits: WINTER INTENSIFIES The deflationary credit contraction, or as some call a Kondratieff Winter, is intensifying. For the time being the worldwide financial and monetary systems have taken a step back from complete oblivion. The usual measurements such as the TED spread, three-month LIBOR and the...
- External links 2009-01-18
- India Has a Voracious Silver Appetite
- Trace Mayer submits: Lately, there have been some strange happenings in the silver market. From Act 4, scene 1, lines 40-41 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes”. My article on Gold In Backwardation objectively explains what happens in the...
- External links 2009-02-04
- Predictably, the Dow Crashed Again
- Trace Mayer submits: The Great Credit Contraction, similar to what some call a Kondratieff Winter, is intensifying. Predictably the DOW and S&P 1,500, representing about 85% of the entire US equity market, are continuing to crash. The 10 February 2009 DOW close was 7,888.88 and the S&P 1,500...
- External links 2009-02-11
- Is the GLD ETF Really Worth Its Metal?
- Trace Mayer submits: In December I published A Problem With GLD and SLV ETFs where I briefly perused the [[GLD]] prospectus. It concluded, “For these reasons including (1) the quality of the gold is at issue, (2) no audit of the physical metal is permitted, (3) counter-party risk impregnates the...
- External links 2009-02-19
- Five Weeks of Silver Backwardation
- Trace Mayer submits: During an interview with Contrary Investors Cafe on 24 February 2009 I discussed both gold backwardation and silver backwardation. After the interview I was asked why more commentators are not discussing this issue. I do not know. Regarding money there are two competing views:...
- External links 2009-02-25
- Digital Entities in a Physical World
- Trace Mayer submits: Technology keeps thrusting forward at an ever increasing rate as the Information Age transforms the world at a rapid pace. Business is happening at the speed of thought as companies are beginning to morph into digital entities in a physical world. Fortunes have already been...
- External links 2009-04-13
- On Gold and Civil Liberties
- Trace Mayer submits: Decades ago Ludwig von Mises wrote in The Theory of Money and Credit, It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against...
- External links 2009-05-20
- Book Review: 'Get the Skinny on Silver Investing'
- Trace Mayer submits: This is a foundation for the new post Silver Slips Out Of Backwardation. I remember an offhand remark someone made about ‘If you think the gold bugs are crazy just wait until you meet a silver bug.’ Well, a few months ago at an...
- External links 2009-06-07
- Silver Backwardation Ends
- Trace Mayer submits: Gold and silver are made for each other like peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies. The ’sweat of the sun’ and ‘tears of the moon’ have served as money and currency for millennia. At all times and in all circumstances they remain money....
- External links 2009-06-07
- Potential COMEX Gold Fail
- Trace Mayer submits: FUTURES AND FORWARD CONTRACTS Many commodities trade via forward or futures contracts. A forward contract is is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specified point of time in the future. A futures contract is a standardized...
- External links 2009-06-19
- On Gold and Silver Coin Shortages
- Trace Mayer submits: What is price? Sure it is the ‘amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something.’ But even that definition is too broad as it begs the question of expected or required by whom? Value, utility and price are all subject to...
- External links 2009-06-23
- Institutional Gold Market's Massive Change
- Trace Mayer submits: There is a massive change in the institutional gold market. The CME Group CME has announced, In response to market needs, CME Group will offer a clearing service for the OTC London gold forward market beginning September 20, 2009 for trade date September 21, 2009. by...
- External links 2009-09-03
- Silver Trending Towards Backwardation Again
- Trace Mayer submits: The silver backwardation has been on-again off-again throughout 2009 and this portends gigantic problems for the worldwide monetary system. Backwardation is a situation where the fiat currency price of a commodity is pregnant with a premium the buyer is willing to pay for immediate delivery. ...
- External links 2009-09-12
- Gold Party Intermission Is Nearly Over
- Trace Mayer submits: The recent gold bull upleg is in the midst of a predictable slight correction and consolidation. When that finishes it is highly probable, based on seasonality and technicals, that the next part of the upleg will commence. The Federal Reserve and Washington are only making...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Gold Bug Feeding Frenzy
- Trace Mayer submits: Edgar Allen Poe’s most widely circulated story was ‘The Gold Bug‘ where William Legrand appears to go insane after being bitten by a bug he thinks is pure gold and embarks on a search for mythical treasure. Paul T. Jones II of Tudor Investment Corporation has...
- External links 2009-11-02
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
