01/April/2009 Consensus and all that rot Hugo Salinas Price It's really fortunate for the journalists at The Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times that there is no consensus on the causes of this crisis, for they will be able to sell a lot of words to their bosses at the papers. However, the cause of the crisis is quite plain... more>>

20/February/2009 The long and the short of it Hugo Salinas Price The enormous increases in cash available at the banks are insignificant in comparison with the prevailing enormous shorts on cash and long positions in debt. The squeeze is implacable. In effect, everyone on God’s green earth is trying to obtain cash – which means going long on cash – and trying to pay down debt – which means shorting debt... more>>

04/February/2009 Gold: the protector and creator of jobs Hugo Salinas Price The fiat dollar – unanchored to gold – was the greatest strategic gift that the US could have made to China. Now, they have a huge industrial base and the US has Oh, so little!... more>>

26/January/2009 Mexico’s central bank contradicts itself Hugo Salinas Price Banco de Mexico´s Central Bank, has expressed the opinion that the monetization of the “Libertad” silver ounce would be inflationary. Its opposition to the monetization of the silver ounce is dogmatic, ideological and lacking in any logical support... more>>

05/November/2008 The strange case of falling international reserves Hugo Salinas Price Suddenly, since August, Reserves have stopped growing. What is the significance of the drastic change in the growth-trend of International Reserves, from explosive growth, to the sudden beginning of a contraction?... more>>

28/October/2008 An exercise in myth-busting Hugo Salinas Price “Financing expenditure” is a myth. All actions in the Present have effects in the Present. If a nation decides to live beyond its means, the result is not delayed into the future by “financing”. That nation becomes poorer in the here and now... more>>

27/October/2008 Banco Azteca: New policy on purchase and sale of silver ‘Libertad’ coins Hugo Salinas Price Banco Azteca, with over 800 branches in Mexico, informs us that it will apply a new policy to the purchase and sale of silver “Libertad” ounces, in response to the restriction on supply of silver “Libertad” coins applied last week by the Bank of Mexico... more>>

19/June/2008 Tribute paid in oil Hugo Salinas Price We can quite correctly say that the US and the Eurozone – and other countries whose currencies are considered “reserve currencies” – are “paying” for their oil imports with nothing at all... more>>

13/August/2007 The meaning of quality in money Hugo Salinas Price The “Libertad” silver ounce coin, once monetized to circulate permanently alongside paper money and banking digits, is a coin of quality and its merit does not reside in the sphere of quantity... more>>

25/May/2007 Where's the gold? Hugo Salinas Price CB and IMF reported share of world gold stocks has fallen from 50.34% in 1966 to 18.2% today; however, careful studies estimate undisclosed Central Bank loans of gold of up to 15,000 tonnes, which the borrowers (“bullion banks”) sold to private individuals... more>>