Kelsey Williams
Analyst, Author, and Owner of Kelsey's Gold Facts
Kelsey Williams has more than forty years experience in the financial services industry, including fourteen years as a full-service financial planner. His website, Kelsey's Gold Facts, contains self-authored articles written for the purpose of educating and informing others about gold within a historical context. In addition to gold, he writes about inflation and the Federal Reserve.
Kelsey is the author of two books: INFLATION, WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT ISN'T, AND WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT and ALL HAIL THE FED!
Kelsey Williams is available for private consultations, public speaking, and interviews at [email protected]
Kelsey Williams Articles
At its core, a tariff is a tax levied by a government on goods and services imported into the country. The primary purpose of tariffs is to generate revenue for the government.
IS INFLATION NECESSARY? The straight answer is “no”. The clarity of my emphasis is prompted by a friend’s reaction to my previous article “No Winners When The Inflation Balloon Pops”.
Can you explain the difference between price and value? Most investors can’t. Neither can most analysts. A few years ago, some people were caught up in the NFT (non-fungtable token) craze. Try explaining price and value as it applies to...
“There is more money to be made in gold stocks compared to gold because gold stocks benefit from a leverage factor that potentially produces gains more favorable than holding gold itself.”
As the economy slowly grinds to a standstill, the expectations of worsening inflation continue to rise. “Stagflation”, you say? Possibly; but, there is another risk that is greater than stagflation. And, the prospects are much gloomier...
There are three headline news items which have attracted a significant amount of attention in the gold space lately. They are as follows: 1) gold "shortages" in London, 2) gold reserves at Fort Knox, and 3) revaluation of U.S. gold...
At his press conference earlier this week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the following… “The public should be confident that we will continue to do our work as we always have, focusing on using our tools to achieve our goals, and, really,...
In 1928 and 1929, the Fed raised interest rates for the purpose of curbing rampant speculation in stocks. At that time, investors could borrow as much as 90% of the stock price for their proposed investment. The banks were just as...
Investors keep looking to the Fed for supposed “forward guidance”. They are looking in the wrong place. Since mid-December, bond prices have declined another 5% and are currently at new 52-week lows. Here is an updated chart of U.S....
“I think instinctively – I can’t prove this, we’re going to learn about this empirically – but it seems to me that the neutral rate is probably higher than it was during the intra-crisis period. And so, rates will be higher.” (Jerome...
