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April 22, 2019 Key Gold Headlines

The Fed’s Winners and Losers – Ultimately, We’re All Losers

When the Federal Reserve artificially manipulates interest rates, it’s messing with our minds by distorting important signals that prices provide in a free market. As investment guru Jim Grant put it in a recent article in Barron’s, central bank interest rates are nothing but crude price controls. Like all price controls, the Fed’s interest rate […]