The King's Bench Letter

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What can I expect from each issue?


The King's Bench Letter is distributed electronically as a fifteen-to-twenty page PDF file and delivered via e-mail roughly once a month, usually towards the end of the month. The specific content of each letter will naturally vary, but there are several key topics we try to report on in each issue. While the letter itself is never really segmented quite as colorfully (or formally) as we describe below, for our present (somewhat theatrical) purposes it may help you to think of the content we provide as being structured as something like this:

  • The Alchemist's Secret: In the Middle Ages, alchemy was known as the "Royal Art" and rare indeed was the King who did not keep a top-rate alchemist in employ at his Court. Of course, in many ways the challenge that faces us is even more perplexing than what the wizards of the Middle Ages were up against: while they had merely to convert lead into gold using the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone, our task is to take (commercial) paper, along with all the other forms of debt and liability the central banks throw our way, and somehow transmute these into sovereign gold and silver(!) Future generations will marvel indeed at our wizardry; there will be those among them who will openly scoff at our Great Work, alleging that it would have been "scientifically impossible" to extract gold and silver from mere ordinary paper and bank debt. But we shall pay no heed to these court jesters, and instead will devote at least (roughly) one-third of each letter to looking at the gold (and silver) markets, and exploring ways that you can use the two "holy" metals to enhance both your wealth and your sovereignty.

  • The Inner Temple: The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court in England exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar (the other three being the Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn). It is located near the Royal Courts of Justice and is within the City of London. Our use of the term here is (obviously) somewhat tongue-in-cheek, although we do take seriously our role of monitoring central bank policy; and we do take seriously our role of educating you about the Law; and we do see central banking as being a profoundly juristic profession, almost impossible to separate entirely from either the Bar or the Law or the Bench; and we see both of these (the Law and the central banks) as being tied very closely to the City of London itself. So for these reasons, we usually spend at least one-third (or so) of our letter looking at either the Law, or at the central banks, or at the City of London, or at all three.
So with 1/3 of the letter devoted to looking at silver and gold, and 1/3 spent exploring the Law, the last 1/3 is usually a bit more open-ended. We might take this space to address anything from monetary policy to investment strategy to central bank misconduct to muck-rake reporting to history to religion to science to everything in between. The general color and tenor of each issue, however, ultimately reverts back to the four cornerstones of the King's Bench Letter:
  • Always trade and invest so as to maximize your gold/silver holdings.
  • Always trade and invest so as to hold as much land as you can afford.
  • Always watch (and be wary of) the paper-issuing central banks.
  • Always know and use the Law to protect your wealth and assets, and for your own (Sovereign) advantage.
Remember, these cornerstones are the secret of royalty and they are principles that can be put to work for you too!

       

The Alchemist's Laboratory from "Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae" (Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom), by Heinrich Kunrath (1560-1605).

London's Templar Church dates back to the late 12th century and is used today by two of the English Inns of Court: the Inner and the Middle Temple.