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The Gold Standard Cannot Survive Political Logic

Jul 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Publisher Steve Forbes, speaking to Human Events predicted "a return to the gold standard by the United states within the next five years". Why? Because it would "help the nation solve a variety of economic, fiscal, and monetary ills". The article continues: Such a move would help to stabilize the value of ...read more

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Silver Price Collapse Reminds of Risks in Paper Market

May 20th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
Gold and silver are strange things. They have been used for centuries as money and only in the last 40 years have they been shoved aside by the financial communists — yet they still exist as a free market monetary asset despite the force of all the government’s guns. The strange ...read more

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Your Gold Coins vs. the Federal Reserve and the Mainstream Media

Apr 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
If you did what Bill Bonner and I have been recommending for a decade, you own gold. Bonner began promoting the purchase of gold in the year 2000. I strongly promoted this for my subscribers after September 11, 2001, when the Federal Reserve began pumping up the monetary base in ...read more

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Currency Controls and the War on Money

Apr 11th, 2011 | By | 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

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Milton Friedman’s Money Machine

Mar 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Milton Friedman believed in the free market most of the time. The trouble was, whenever he approached the coercive monopoly known as civil government, he came up with logical solutions based on the idea that civil government can be made more efficient by adopting pseudo-market arrangements. He came up with ...read more

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Gold vs. Guns and Badges

Mar 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Do you trust men with guns and badges to provide long-term economic growth? Or do you trust the free market? When push comes to shove — recession — most people trust guns and badges far more than they trust the free market. Do you trust the Federal Reserve System to maintain prosperity? ...read more

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The Coming Rout in Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Gold and Silver

Mar 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Personal Investing
There’s a scenario that could play out between May and September in which commodities (including my beloved silver) and the stock and bond markets could all sell off between 20% and 40%. The trigger will be the cessation of QE II and a multi-month pause before QE III. This is a ...read more

Posted in Commodities, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Personal Investing | 6 comments


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

Feb 16th, 2011 | By | 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

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Posted in Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold | 15 comments


Gold Cares Nothing About U.S. Elections

Oct 18th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Politics
For those of us who recognize the complicity of both Republicans and Democrats in our economic calamity, it has been satisfying to see the party establishments of each pummeled this election season. But as far as averting the currency crisis I describe in The Dollar Meltdown, the gold market says ...read more

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More Reasons Gold Is Going to $2,000

Oct 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
The biggest holder of U.S. Treasuries isn’t happy. And why should they be? They’re sitting on the sidelines holding US treasuries worth $797 billion. That’s quite a chunk of change. Of course I’m talking about China. The Chinese have been the biggest foreign creditor to the United States and in recent statements they’ve ...read more

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