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Forget Retirement And Retirement Savings

May 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Retirement is a marketing construct. You've been sold a bill of goods for the last few decades of your life. You've been told that nation-states, democracy and socialism are good. You've been told our monetary system prevents instability. And -- while the government and central banks put your unborn children or ...read more

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Bernanke’s Pet Peeve: The Gold Standard

May 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
Ben Bernanke journeyed across town to give a 4-part seminar to 30 undergraduates at George Washington University. This was clearly a public relations stunt. Why would the head of the world's most powerful central bank lecture to 30 undergraduates? This was not quite the equivalent of George W. Bush reading "My ...read more

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Why Gold Is Still My Favorite Asset

Apr 24th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
I hate to give personal investment advice. So please do me a favour and do not treat the following as investment advice. I am expressing my personal opinion here. I do so with honesty and conviction, without a personal agenda – I am not trying to sell you anything. Nobody knows ...read more

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Is a Mortgage a Better Inflation Hedge Than Gold and Silver?

Mar 13th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Sell Your Gold. Buy a House. Put Nickels in It. Normally we would not look upon buying a single family house for personal use as an investment. But these are strange times we live in. Why don’t we consider a single-family house for personal use an investment? In a completely free market (and ...read more

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The Fed’s Newest Trick

Mar 8th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Gary Gibson, Introduction... Does the Fed's latest colorfully named plan amount to anything more than money printing and legerdemain? Will it not punish savers and interfere with oh so vital capital accumulation? Jeffrey Tucker is on hand to take a look in today's feature article. And then we get real in today's Parting ...read more

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The Fall of the Roman Denarius

Mar 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Precious Metals
Gary Gibson, Introduction... Inflation is a tax. It's just a very sneaky one. The fine folks over at Economic Collapse Blog explained it so well that we thought we'd share it with you... "It is a continual tax on every single dollar that you own. As your money sits in the bank, it ...read more

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Infinite Stupidity

Nov 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured
"The unlimited resources" of the European Central Bank (ECB) are quickly becoming the new magic mantra in political commentary and financial market analysis, now that the bigger euro-dominos are beginning to wobble, and everybody realizes that nobody has the firepower to bail out Italy or to "recapitalize" (i.e., bail out ...read more

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Why You Should Remember the Fifth of November

Nov 1st, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
As soon as the noose settled around his neck, Guy Fawkes broke free from the hangman and jumped off the scaffolding -- guaranteeing a quick drop with a stop sharp enough to break his neck cleanly... It seems like an odd result for a man to be in such a hurry ...read more

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Europe’s Future Comes Into Focus: Hyperinflation

Oct 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
What struck me most when reading the first responses to the EU summit was this: Most of what you get from the mainstream media pundits or from the financial economists on Wall Street or in the city of London not only misses the relevant points, it usually gets things completely ...read more

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The Real Reason for the Uprisings

Oct 20th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
What to make of Occupy Wall Street... We found the following in our inbox today from the National Inflation Association: "The Occupy Wall Street movement is gaining tons of momentum and is likely to continue picking up steam in the weeks and months ahead. Americans are angry, but they aren't exactly sure ...read more

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