The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a … Continue reading
With thanks to the Ludvig von Mises Institute Under cover of its multiplicity of fabricated wars on drugs, terror, tax evasion, and organized crime, the US government has long been waging a hidden war on cash. One symptom of the … Continue reading
An in-dept report from ShadowStats.com Little has changed in the basic outlook. The U.S. economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last five years continue to deteriorate. Yet they remain just the precursors to the coming Great Collapse: a hyperinflationary great … Continue reading
By Jim Sinclair The Gold Aficionado’s greatest fear is totally without basis. The price of gold will not fall significantly from its points of true standard valuation and the introduction of a new currency system. Gold is heading back towards … Continue reading
I don’t know what the world will look like in the next five years because we are not dealing any longer with free markets but with markets that are distorted by continuous intervention by the government, the world’s central banks … Continue reading
The politicians will do whatever they find convenient, because there is no longer anything to stop them – not an electorate that is jealous of its liberty and certainly not the Constitution, which is now just a playhouse for judicial … Continue reading
Pay the least premium. Premiums are the differences between the spot (current selling price) of bullion and the purchase price you are paying. It is the markup from the dealer you buy form. In times of great volatility, the premium … Continue reading
This article was originally posted at GoldMoney on Dec 17, 2011 This is the time of year when City pundits produce their forecasts for the forthcoming year. Historically there has been little point to this exercise. Instead, here is the one … Continue reading
With my thanks to Jeff Clark, editor of BIG GOLD A young woman – let’s call her Andrea – inherited some money from her father in late 1997. She was only nineteen at the time. Not knowing the first thing … Continue reading