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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 ...
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Tags: capital and currency controls, Federal Reserve, Gold, silver, U.S. dollar
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Gold |
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Mar 30th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Featured, Macro Economics
When my book Economics on Trial (1991) was published, I prepared an advertisement with the headline: “Japan and Germany Win World War III,” followed by these words: “Their formula multiplies wealth so rapidly that they will achieve their goal of world domination by the year 2000.” In the ad, I ...
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Tags: Federal Reserve Note, Gold, Milton Friedman
Posted in Economics, Featured, Macro Economics |
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Mar 21st, 2011 |
By Gary North |
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 ...
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Tags: central bank, fiat money, Gold, gold standard, inflation target, Milton Friedman, taxation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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Mar 18th, 2011 |
By Gary North |
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? ...
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Tags: central planning, Gold, gold standard, government, Milton Friedman
Posted in Economics, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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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 ...
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Tags: copper, debasement, Executive Order 6102, Gold, Gold Reserve Act, inflation, nickel, silver
Posted in Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold |
15 comments
Oct 18th, 2010 |
By Charles Goyette |
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 ...
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Tags: democrats, elections, Gold, republicans
Posted in Featured, Gold, Politics |
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Oct 1st, 2010 |
By Byron King |
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 ...
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Tags: China, dollar, Gold, mining, peak gold
Posted in Featured, Gold |
7 comments
Sep 29th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Economics, Featured, Gold
Since ancient times, gold has been a safe haven for investors worried about market volatility and political uncertainty. Even the rise of paper currencies hasn’t managed to kill the idea of gold in people’s minds. That’s because gold is no one’s liability — currencies come and go, but gold remains ...
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Tags: boom bust cycle, Gold, inflation, spurring economic activity
Posted in Economics, Featured, Gold |
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Sep 27th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
The Gold Report: Doug, at a recent conference you said that the U.S. ought to default on its national debt now. Why that rather than letting it play out?
Doug Casey: Several other things almost equally radical should be done besides defaulting on the debt. I recognize that an outright default ...
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Tags: default on national debt, Gold, Greater Depression, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Investing |
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Aug 16th, 2010 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Gold
If Goldman Sachs is publicly bullish on gold, is that a good thing or bad thing for gold bulls?
Wall Street's notorious trading house published a report on gold last week setting a price target of US$1,300 in the next six months. The report cited several factors. But before we get ...
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Tags: deflation, Gold, gold bubble, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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