Sometimes whenever gold is mentioned around polite company the term ‘gold bug’ gets thrown out. This term was penned by Edgar Allen Poe in his short story ‘The Gold Bug’. Published in the early 1840’s and according to Poe it ‘made great noise’ and was his most widely circulated and read story.

In ‘The Gold Bug’ William Legrand appears to go insane after being bitten by a bug he thinks is pure gold. He confides in his closest friend, the narrator. Legrand asks the narrator to immediately visit him at his home on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. When the narrator arrives Legrand begins searching for lost treasure. The narrator doubts Legrand and thinks he may be insane. Do Legrand and the narrator find the mythical treasure?

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Discussion of the ‘new gold monetarists’ and I suppose I am one.  The CNBC guest throws out $11,000-$50,000 per ounce which could be a little high.  This goes in-depth towards the bottom of the liquidity pyramid.  The more you begin to understand economics and monetary science the more you will realize just how much is packed into that tiny little graphic.

[CORRECTIVE NOTE:  I have been hoarding platinum not palladium.  But if I could find a cost effective way to hoard palladium, like GoldMoney with platinum, then I would also hoard palladium.  I am not a fan of a 6.8% premium.]

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Jay Taylor of MiningStocks.com interviewed Trace Mayer on 10 November 2009.  We discussed HowToVanish.com, the interview on BNN, money versus currency, inflation versus deflation, my book The Great Credit Contraction and even hit on the GLD ETF.  The entire radio show is included and the interview with Trace Mayer starts around 18:00.

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Interview with Ian Gordon of the Long Wave Group where we discuss the Kondratieff Winter.  You can read the transcript or listen.

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