Currencies

How to Open a Bank Account that Pays 16%

Jul 9th, 2012 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Currencies, Featured, International, Personal Investing

I just opened a bank account that pays me 16.2% annually. All I had to do was deposit a minimum of $180. I got the one-year time deposit, which means I have to leave the money alone for a year. But if I decide I want my money back sooner, I ...read more

Tags: China, Mongolian bank interest rates, resource economies, tugriks
Posted in Currencies, Featured, International, Personal Investing | 4 comments

The Market That Really Matters

Apr 6th, 2012 | By Jeffrey Tucker | Category: Commodities, Currencies, Featured

Would You Like a Beer With That Haircut? What if we had the following economic system? This system would shower the globe with free goods day and night, asking nothing and giving nearly everything. Most of what it generated would be free goods, and every living person would have access. Anyone who amassed ...read more

Tags: barbershop, beer, capitalism, free market, information, Innovation, pingpong
Posted in Commodities, Currencies, Featured | 6 comments

The Monetary Metal That Won’t Die

Jan 6th, 2012 | By Jeffrey Tucker | Category: Currencies, Economics, Featured, Gold, Politics

For more than one hundred years, governments have been trying to kill gold's role in the monetary system. They've dreamed of a day when the cursed metal would vanish completely except as jewelry and luxurious adornment. And yet its monetary properties won't go away. Central banks still hold it, and ...read more

Tags: central bank holding gold, George Selgin, Gold, history of money, monetary role of gold
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Featured, Gold, Politics | 1 Comment »

The China Bust: Tic Toc Part I

Oct 10th, 2011 | By Kel Kelly | Category: Currencies, Featured, International

China is in the process of allowing its currency to rise. The reason for this is to address the worsening inflation rates in the country. Allowing the yuan to rise will indeed stop, or slow, inflation, but the way this fix works is not the way that is usually assumed. ...read more

Tags: China, chinese currency, currency manipulation, inflation
Posted in Currencies, Featured, International | 3 comments

China: American Financial Colony or Mercantilist Predator?

Aug 26th, 2011 | By Lewis Lehrman | Category: Currencies, Economics, Gold

China is an important trading partner of America. But it may also be a mortal threat. And not for the conventional reasons usually cited in the press. Ironically, it is a threat because China is in fact a financial colony of the United States, a colony subsidized and sustained by ...read more

Tags: China, gold standard, U.S. dollar standard
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Gold | 5 comments

Currency Controls and the War on Money

Apr 11th, 2011 | By Jeff Berwick | Category: Currencies, Featured, Gold

If you keep your money or savings in US dollars inside of the United States, you are a risk taker of epic proportions. Have you not been paying attention to what is going on? To begin with, the U.S. Government now employs cash-sniffing dogs at most international airports. If you are ...read more

Tags: capital and currency controls, Federal Reserve, Gold, silver, U.S. dollar
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Gold | 7 comments

Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel and the Slow Death of Money

Feb 16th, 2011 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold

A huge opportunity to hedge against both inflation and deflation is lying out there in the open. There are no transaction costs and right now there’s even a built-in discount. But most people will never realize any of this. In 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, which made ...read more

Tags: copper, debasement, Executive Order 6102, Gold, Gold Reserve Act, inflation, nickel, silver
Posted in Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold | 16 comments

Euro Gold and the Euro Zone

Apr 27th, 2010 | By Trace Mayer | Category: Currencies, Featured, Gold

I had a conference to attend in Southern California last week but the true capstone was a Sunday evening dinner with several readers. Although ‘gold bugs’ may be perceived in their writing as cranky I have found them to be among the most considerate and cultured company. Perhaps it stems ...read more

Tags: euro, fiat currency, Gold
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Gold | 8 comments

Is China Going Boom Or Bust?

Mar 22nd, 2010 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Currencies, Featured, International

First let me confess that I have not been to China. Some folks think that handicaps me. They are woefully mistaken. I make it a pretty steadfast rule not to go to Washington, either, but I can give you a good idea of what’s going on there. Since I have no ...read more

Tags: China, Chinese government, inflation, stimulus
Posted in Currencies, Featured, International | 2 comments

Will California Be Removed from the United States?

Feb 19th, 2010 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Currencies, Featured

Ever since the War Between the States (circa 1860), there hasn’t been a serious (or at least widespread) move for succession from the United States. However, there is a call by some for the State of California to be removed. Have you heard about this? As you may know, California is ...read more

Tags: california, dollar, euro, Greece
Posted in Currencies, Featured | 20 comments