Posts Tagged ‘ U.S. dollar ’

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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Posted in Currencies, Featured, Gold | 7 comments


China’s War Uses U.S. Debt Against U.S. Dollar

Sep 15th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, International
Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department released data showing an 11% decline in official Chinese holdings of U.S. government bonds during the past year. The Chinese government isn’t adding to its U.S. bond position. Nor is it rolling over its previous purchases. Instead, between September 2009–June 2010, Chinese holdings of U.S. bonds ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, International | 10 comments


Two Reasons to Buy China-Based Stocks

Jun 2nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
How do you make a 100% gain in a foreign stock even if the price of the shares go nowhere in their home market? It’s all in the currencies. To have any chance of doing that, you have to start with a cheap currency. For U.S.-based investors, one of the ...read more

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Entropy, or Why the World as We Know It is Dying

Mar 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The concept of entropy is one of the most useful terms for understanding just about everything. While it has its origins in natural law — thermodynamics, specifically — the concept holds true pretty much across all closed systems. In the simplest of terms, every closed system will ultimately degrade toward a ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics | 12 comments


They’re Going to Kill the Fed

Dec 3rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
They're going to kill the Fed. Tentative last safe date to get your Bernankes traded for something of intrinsic value is the end of the first quarter, 2010. Well...you you could just take my word for it and save both of us some valuable time, but you probably want enough details to ...read more

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How the United States Inflated the World

Nov 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
After the United States discarded the gold standard, the  dollar remained the worlds reserve currency. Trade around the world was still  conducted in dollars even though it had depreciated against most currencies.  This created havoc. Exporters to the United States received the depreciated  dollars for their goods. OPEC (the Organization ...read more

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U.S. Dollar Woes Boost China’s Global Muscle

Nov 25th, 2009 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, International
Washington continues to believe that the U.S. dollar is a weapon and most of the G8 is playing along. They simply can’t see – or won’t acknowledge – where the dollar is actually headed, even though the evidence is right before their eyes. On the other side of the world, however, ...read more

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Posted in Commodities, Featured, International | 6 comments