BIS

[Note: Introduced by a commentary, The BIS and Greenspan: Freezing-Out the U.S. Constitution, dated October 27, 2000, this section of The Golden Sextant focuses on the recently announced plan of the Bank for International Settlements to freeze-out its private...

BIS – Gold Price Fixing Case

BIS – Gold Price Fixing Case Howe v. Bank for International Settlements, et al. U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Civil Action No. 00-CV-12485-RCL CONCLUDING COMMENTARIES 11/27/2002 – Arbitration Tribunal Awards Additional Compensation...

Money in Court: Paving the Road to Ruin

MPEG COMMENTARY – Page 21 June 18, 2002. Fork in the Road: Appeal of Right or the Right Appeal A decade ago in my essay The Golden Sextant, I urged the adoption of a modernized gold standard, both to bring the U.S. monetary system back into conformity with the...

Money in Court: Paving the Road to Ruin

[Note: Presentation on Thursday, May 23, 2002, to a seminar at the Grocers Hall, London, organized by the Association of Mining Analysts and sponsored by Durban Roodepoort Deep on Prospects for Gold – A new era or more toil ahead?] As indicated on the program,...

Gold or Dross? Political Derivatives in Campaign 2000

NEW ESSAY – AUGUST 2000More than a century has passed since gold and money played a leading role in the rhetoric of a presidential campaign. At the Democratic convention of 1896, William Jennings Bryan won the presidential nomination with a speech dishonoring...