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		<title>New Austrian School of Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/05/new-austrian-school-of-economics-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 01:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Austrian School of Economics Munich, Germany August 2012 (exact dates will be announced soon) Title of the course: CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Marginalism; Marketability; The Real Bills Doctrine vs. the Quantity Theory of Money; Interest versus Discount; The True Role of the Gold Standard This course is a seven-day, twenty-lecture session. Its topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Footnote to the Wolfson Economics Prize Contest</title>
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		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/05/a-footnote-to-the-wolfson-economics-prize-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 01:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Antal Fekete Last year Lord Wolfson announced the Economics Prize Contest of 2012. At stake was the £250,000 Wolfson Economics Prize the richest economic award after the Nobel Prize. The essays were to address the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, in particular, the problem how to ensure the stability of the new European currencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Steve Keen</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/open-letter-to-steve-keen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Open letter to Steve Keen Keith Weiner Dear Professor Keen, I am a monetary scientist and a fan of some of your work.  I admire the courage it took for you to call the Australian housing crisis as early as you did, and to make a bet that you would be right.  But I came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Presence</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/usa-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 15th April 2012 is a big day for The Gold Standard Institute.  As announced in our monthly journal The Gold Standard, it is the day that we announced a President of the Institute in the USA. The great significance to the Institute is not just a presence in such an important market, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irredeemable Paper Money, Feature #451</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/irredeemable-paper-money-feature-451/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/irredeemable-paper-money-feature-451/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[© April 13, 2012 by Keith Weiner I am writing this, having just returned from the fourth course at the New Austrian School of Economics, in Munich.  The single biggest theme was the rate of interest and its linkage to prices.  Kondratieff, among several others, observed that rising prices lead to rising interest rates and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gold Problem Revisited*</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/the-gold-problem-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete The article The Gold Problem of Ludwig von Mises, published 47 years ago in 1965, just six years before he died (the gold standard died with him in the same year) has some breath-taking thoughts, for example, “the gold standard alone can make the determination of money’s purchasing power independent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Ben Bernanke&#8217;s Speech on The Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/04/response-to-ben-bernankes-speech-on-the-gold-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Weiner (weiner (..dot..) keith (..at..) gmail (..dot..) com) New Austrian School of Economics Gold Standard Institute Benjamin Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mar 25, 2012 Re: Open Letter to Discuss Your Misunderstandings About Gold Dear Ben: You have publicly gone on record with some off-the-wall assertions about the gold standard.  What made you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia&#8217;s Golden Future</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/asias-golden-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article has been posted at GoldMoney, here &#60;http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/alasdair-macleod/asias-golden-future.html&#62; .       2012-MAR-24 For most of the last century the default currency for international settlements has been the US dollar. This has given America ultimate power over international trade. In recent months, the US wielded this power against Iran, making life extremely difficult for all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monetary Gibberish</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/monetary-gibberish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/monetary-gibberish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business Insider headlined their report of Ben Bernanke’s speech on the gold standard with “Ben Bernanke Just Murdered The Gold Standard”.  This really must be some sort of a peak in bad journalism. Bernanke’s uninformed gibberish should inspire nothing but mockery.  It is a disgrace that the head of the Federal Reserve Bank should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary Backwardation: The Path Forward from 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/temporary-backwardation-the-path-forward-from-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/temporary-backwardation-the-path-forward-from-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Keith Weiner &#8211; Keithweiner&#8217;s Posterous  The March silver futures contract first entered backwardation on Mar 9 and with a few zigs and zags has not only remained there but has gone deeper and deeper in.  The April gold future just entered backwardation today.  See the graph (backwardation is when (Spot(bid) &#8211; Future(offer) &#62; 0). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antal Fekete Responds to Ben Bernanke</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/antal-fekete-responds-to-ben-bernanke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/03/antal-fekete-responds-to-ben-bernanke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE GOLD PROBLEM REVISITED (pdf) Antal E. Fekete The article The Gold Problem of Ludwig von Mises, published 47 years ago in 1965, just six years before he died (the gold standard died with him in the same year) has some breath-taking thoughts, for example, “the gold standard alone can make the determination of money’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Failure of Mechanistic Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/the-failure-of-mechanistic-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/the-failure-of-mechanistic-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From: http://www.plata.com.mx/Mplata/articulos/articlesFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=181 20/February/2012 Hugo Salinas Price The first requirement for successful action upon the physical world is correct information about the facts upon which we are to act. The Wright brothers understood this requirement when they began their work to build a flying machine, because they began by a rudimentary but quite effective study of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Gold Backwardation</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/permanent-gold-backwardation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/permanent-gold-backwardation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Keith Weiner The Root of the Problem Is Debt Worldwide, an incredible tower of debt has been under construction since President Nixon&#8217;s 1971 default on the gold obligations of the US government. His decree severed the redeemability of the dollar for gold and thus eliminated the extinguisher of debt. Debt has been growing exponentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/a-tale-of-two-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/a-tale-of-two-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent article from Professor Fekete.  It is indeed time to close ranks in the gold camp and unite behind ideas, not people; behind reason, not dogma.  Moving on from a wrong idea is far more dignified than loudly protesting how right one is in the face of obvious error.  The dreadful state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to 2012 &#8211; The Financial System and the Real Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/welcome-to-2012-the-financial-system-and-the-real-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/welcome-to-2012-the-financial-system-and-the-real-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Louis Boulanger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;Prosper&#8217;(Issue 44: 31st January 2012), a newsletter put out by Louis Boulanger.  Louis is  an investment adviser and bullion retailer out of Auckland, New Zealand.  Louis has been a supporter of The Gold Standard Institute and a writer for our monthly journal &#8216;The Gold Standard&#8217; from their inceptions. Please excuse the poor formatting.  That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/gold-bonds-averting-financial-armageddon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/gold-bonds-averting-financial-armageddon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is wholeheartedly recommended.  I regard it as the most significant document that I have read in over three decades of being involved with gold. In ‘Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon’ Mr. Weiner, a senior advisor to The Gold Standard Institute, provides a roadmap out of this dreadful mess. The realistic scenario that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premature Obituaries for the U.S. Dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/premature-obituaries-for-the-u-s-dollar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/premature-obituaries-for-the-u-s-dollar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Antal E. Fekete 01/18/2012 It is open season for wild monetary prognostications. More premature obituaries on the dollar have been posted on the Internet. For example, see Jim Willie’s The US Dollar Paper Tiger (Financial Sense, January 11) with epitaphs like “the U.S. dollar rising to the cemetery”, or “dollar death dance”. Or see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/inflation-an-expansion-of-counterfeit-credit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit © Jan 4, 2012 Keith Weiner The common definition of inflation is “an increase in consumer prices”, and deflation is “a decrease in consumer prices.” A corollary is the old myth: “a fine suit costs the same in gold as it did in 1912, one ounce.” Why should that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream Economists’ Monetary Insanity</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/mainstream-economists%e2%80%99-monetary-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/mainstream-economists%e2%80%99-monetary-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete Paul Krugman&#8217;s article in the December 15 issue of The New York Times under the title G.O.P. Monetary Madness takes G.O.P. presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul to task for his &#8216;ideological&#8217; stand on money. For excellent reasons, not all of which had to do with fear of a Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation, the Constitution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspend Habeas Corpus and Enact Martial Law?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/suspend-habeas-corpus-and-enact-martial-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/suspend-habeas-corpus-and-enact-martial-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris Powell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the era of the Gold Standard was a period of ever greater freedom and prosperity, so the dying of paper pseudo-money will be accompanied by ever greater curtailment of that same freedom and prosperity. PB Chris Powell: Suspend habeas corpus and enact martial law? by Chris Powell &#8211; GATA &#8211; December 12th, 2011 Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Gold Symposium Synopsis</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/sydney-gold-symposium-synopsis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/sydney-gold-symposium-synopsis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacq Ludwig, one of the original supporters of the Institute, kindly wrote a synopsis on the Sydney Gold Symposium in Sydney.  For those of you who could not make it, here is as good a summary of the event as you will read anywhere. © Jacq Ludwig 14th &#38; 15th November, 2011 &#8211; Luna Park, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Reason Entirely</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-wrong-reason-entirely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This man is wrong… dangerously so.  His message is one that serves to prolong the problem, not to solve it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5RxhahHK0 He is pointing the finger away from the true cause.  Some, most, do it unwittingly.  I am not at all sure that this is so in this instance. It is NOT the corporate culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Triangle &#8211; Economic Nirvana?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-golden-triangle-economic-nirvana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-golden-triangle-economic-nirvana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rudy Fritsch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The follow up to this article by Rudy Fritsch is entitled &#8216;A Four Legged Stool&#8217; and will be published in The Gold Standard, the journal of the Institute which comes out on the 15th of each month.  PB ____ My last article, Golden Foot in the Door, suggested that if Gold coins and Gold bonds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nouriel Roubini&#8217;s Terrible Lapse In Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/nouriel-roubinis-terrible-lapse-in-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Forbes Magazine by Ralph Benko “It’s not even a theory; it is a theology.”  So Nouriel Roubini, with his best Strangelovian inflection, describes the gold standard to Yahoo Finance’s The Daily Ticker, and in doing so displays shocking ignorance of the gold standard and either the work of Ben Bernanke or a presumption that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crude Awakening</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-crude-awakening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article is posted at GoldMoney, here &#60;http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/alasdair-macleod/a-crude-awakening.html&#62; 2011-NOV-26 One of the joys of interviewing some of the best brains in the world of finance and economics is that they alert you to important factors that perhaps you haven’t fully considered. This was my experience with Chris Martenson in Madrid last week (the interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Jewish Opposition to the Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/anti-jewish-opposition-to-the-gold-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Jewish Opposition to the Gold Standard Thomas Allen Some opponents of the gold standard reject it because they see it as part of the Jewish conspiracy to control the world. They cite the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to support their claim. The Protocols mention gold several times. Protocol 2: In the hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Bachheimer Interview &#8211; in German</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/thomas-bachheimer-interview-in-german/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/thomas-bachheimer-interview-in-german/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Bachheimer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.daf.fm/video/goldstandard-institut-europa-praesident-gold-und-silber-echte-waehrung-50149464-EU0009652759.html]]></description>
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		<title>An Austrian Economic View</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/an-austrian-economic-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011-NOV-12 In the last two weeks the headlines have switched from Greece to Italy. Financial and economic commentators who dismissed Greece as a small cog in the Euroland machine are now seriously alarmed and see no solution to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis other than the short-term expedient of getting the European Central Bank to print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Prosperity Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/liberty-prosperity-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Prosperity Peace Oddly enough The Gold Standard Institute is not so much concerned with gold, as it is with the right to reclaim a decent and just society. The edifice known as civilization can only be built upon a foundation of gold.  That is an ageless truth that applied to Egyptian, Roman, Mesoamerican and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Gold Standard Is Big Oil&#8217;s Best Defense Against Political Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Kadlec]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charles Kadlec this article is from Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/10/31/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/ “The process (of debauching the currency) engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” — John Maynard Keynes Major oil companies are fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Money is a Human Right</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/sound-money-is-a-human-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech given to the Committee for Monetary Research and Education Alasdair Macleod At the Fall Meeting, 20th October 2011. Before addressing the consequences of today’s macro-economic policies I want to tell you my philosophy. I support sound money for two very good reasons: 1.      Firstly, it is a basic human right to choose to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisiana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across the following at: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisiana_10192011 The  measures to keep the paper money game going are becoming ever more desperate. &#160;  Thad D. Ackel, Jr. October 19th, 2011 Ackel &#38; Associates This article has been generously contributed by Thad D. Ackel, Jr. Esq., an advocate for private property rights and economic and civil liberty. Visit his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Gold Stock is There Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/how-much-gold-stock-is-there-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prologue This was added after the article below was first published.  I was accused by a few of being speculative, though I had admitted as such throughout the article.  It is possibly best to explain the thought process behind the article… It goes without saying that the best method for establishing a valid story is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irredeemable Paper Money vs Gold-Keith Weiner</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/irredeemable-paper-money-vs-gold-keith-weiner-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/irredeemable-paper-money-vs-gold-keith-weiner-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Audiences today are eager to understand what is really happening in our financial system, and for a way out of the false alternative: (a) Keynes / Friedman / Modern Monetary Theory / Econometrics /obsession with consumer prices vs. (b) a &#8220;pure, 100% backed&#8221; (so called) gold standard without banking or lending I recently presented my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Chinese Unemployment?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/what-chinese-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete “There is gold in them thar hills!” Occasionally we read in various columns of mainstream journalists that the Chinese have shot themselves in the foot when they (in violence of Friedmanite precepts) failed to revalue their currency upwards. The world will retaliate by imposing punitive tariffs, creating horrible unemployment in China and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Streeters Should Be Livid About Losing The Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/occupy-wall-streeters-should-be-livid-about-losing-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/occupy-wall-streeters-should-be-livid-about-losing-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Bonner The debt-slave rebellion! Get ready, it&#8217;s coming, the uprising of the popolo minuto, the revolt of the masses…the Jacquerie! I&#8217;ve read reports on Occupy Wall Street and the worldwide demonstrations in The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. Nowhere was there the slightest hint at the real problem. Nobody&#8217;s interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silver Dollar 1873–1900 – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873%e2%80%931900-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873%e2%80%931900-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bland-Allison Act Thomas Allen [Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.] With the Bland-Allison Act, in 1878, Congress authorized minting silver dollars. The law ordered the Secretary of the Treasury to buy silver bullion and coin it; it did not open the mint to the free coinage of silver. Silver dollars were declared standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Crisis of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-second-crisis-of-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Crisis of Socialism Detlev Schlichter The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s, &#8220;if not ever,&#8221; the governor of the Bank of England said last week, when he explained to an increasingly sceptical and weary public the bank&#8217;s decision to print yet more fiat money and use it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silver Dollar 1873 &#8211; 1900 Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873-1900-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, September 5, 2011 The Silver Dollar 1873–1900 – Part 1 Introduction and Coinage Act of 1873 Thomas Allen [Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.] Introduction Many people claim that sliver was demonetized in 1873 when Congress enacted the Coinage Act of 1873. This claim is not true. Congress did not demonetize silver. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Honest Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/the-honest-gold-standard1829/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Mr Ralph Benko is a prolific and intelligent contributor to the gold debate and a brother-in-arms in the drive to have gold reinstated into the system.  His contribution to the cause is to be commended.  Whilst at The Gold Standard Institute we strive for an unadulterated Gold Standard, I am more than happy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Destiny of Mankind Hinges Upon Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/the-destiny-of-mankind-hinges-upon-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Salinas Price plata@plata.com.mx I must have read fifty accounts, in the FT and others of that ilk, about what went wrong with the Euro. I have yet to read one that comes out with the plain, unvarnished truth. The whole bloody Establishment of bankers, politicians, economists and journalist whores sings the same song: &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Twist: The Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/operation-twist-the-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Keith Weiner, on September 21st, 2011 For months, even before the end of QE2, analysts and prognosticators have been saying the Fed will have to do another QE and another, endlessly.  These folks were surprised when it didn’t come last month, and predicted confidently that it would come this month especially because Bernanke extended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Dollar Really Worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Is The Dollar Really Worth? By Keith Weiner, on September 19th, 2011 The dollar valued in terms of gold: Behind this pithy graphic is a serious issue. How do we measure value? The paper currencies are (at best) elastic. Using a dollar to measure value is like using a rubber band to measure length. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Price of Gold Fixed Under The Gold Standard?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/is-the-price-of-gold-fixed-under-the-gold-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Allen A common misunderstanding about a commodity standard is that the government fixes the price of the monetary commodity. Many people believe that under the gold standard, the government fixes the price of gold. For example, if an ounce of gold exchanges for $20, the government has fixed the price of gold at $20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash4Gold Means Gold for China?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/cash4gold-means-gold-for-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/cash4gold-means-gold-for-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Publius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Publius &#8211; First published 15th March, 2011 in The Gold Standard &#8211; the journal of The Gold Standard Institute. Inflation is appearing in global food prices, arguably the main cause of recent Mid-East unrest.  Economic shocks from the spreading revolution are further stressing the fiat currency system.  Central banks may need to expand their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hip-Pocket Nerve</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/the-hip-pocket-nerve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The date of issue of the last &#8216;The Gold Standard&#8217;, was the 40th anniversary of the extraordinary day that the US defaulted.  President Nixon &#8211; Tricky Dick &#8211; lived up to his nickname and, with a stroke of his pen and a flourish of his forked tongue, severed the US$ from gold. This is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monetary Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/monetary-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa-Maria Sommer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authored by Thomas Bachheimer (European President of The Gold Standard Institute) and Lisa-Maria Sommer “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” &#8211; John Maynard Keynes This quotation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P Downgrade of Uncle Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/sp-downgrade-of-uncle-sam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/sp-downgrade-of-uncle-sam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Keith Weiner Aug 15, 2011 12:00 pm Government debt paper is debt paper. Money &#8212; gold &#8212; is money. By now, everyone knows that S&#38;P downgraded the debt of the USA from their top rating, AAA, to their second-highest grade, AA+. Most of the commentary has been of the pin-the-blame-on-the-donkey variety. For all most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOO LATE TO JUMP ON THE GOLDWAGON?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/too-late-to-jump-on-the-goldwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/too-late-to-jump-on-the-goldwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egon von Greyerz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excellent summation of the current situation from Egon von Greyerz.  He will be speaking in Sydney, Australia this year at the Symposium Hard Money Conference. &#8220;Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ZERO&#8221; &#8211; Voltaire 1729 TOO LATE TO JUMP ON THE GOLDWAGON? By Egon von Greyerz , August 15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling Interest Rates and Duration Mismatch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright Aug 2011 by Keith Weiner Since 1982, US Treasuries have been in a bull market. This is Exhibit A: the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond (the yield and the market price of the bond are inversely related, like a teeter-totter). This statement should not be controversial. But outside Austrian circles, most people don’t [...]]]></description>
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