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The Truth About Silver: Must Watch Videos

I have complied a list of the best informative silver-related videos available on the net. Many of the truths, myths, and frauds regarding silver are exposed in these videos. If after watching these videos you are still not convinced that physical silver should be in your investment portfolio, you may want to consider seeing a doctor! Gold […]

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Top 5 Inflation Hedges To Store Your Wealth

Since 1971, thanks to President Richard Nixon’s decoupling of gold from the Dollar, money has been transformed into worthless “Monopoly” paper. All of today’s paper currency is not backed up by anything but confidence. As long as there is confidence in this paper to serve as a medium of exchange, it will serve as money. As […]

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QE To Infinity

As I pointed out in late 2011 (see here) that the economy needed another round of QE in 2012 to sustain the current trend of mal-investments or risk collapsing. Well we got it. For the complete FED video press conference of September 13, 2012 please see video below.   Highlights from Video: The FED pledges […]

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George Soros, SDR, US Dollar and Gold: Time For A New Reserve Currency

George Soros describes in the following video how we need a “New Financial World Order,” on the pretext that the current system is “broke” and creating huge trade imbalances. Although he is correct about that the massive trade imbalances being incurred worldwide, he nevertheless chooses to ignore the reasoning behind the trade imbalance in the […]

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Why Does a Trade Deficit Weaken the Currency and Make the Country Poor?

Currently, the US economy consists of approximately 77% services, which contributes to major imbalances to their economic system and not to mention a massif trade deficit (imports exceeds exports ). The picture below depicts dark countries with trade deficits and greener countries with trade surpluses. The US trade deficit was over 550 Billion in 2011, […]

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Central Banks Are Buying Gold, Are you?

The World Gold Council have recently published their second quarter 2012 report. The report indicates that the demand for gold reached 990 tons for the second quarter of this year. This figure is down 7% from the same quarter in 2011, and down 10% below the previous quarter. Although weaker demand was mainly contributed by […]

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Bank Bailouts Favour Malinvestments

In our modern economic age of fractional reserve banking, bank bailouts are occurring at a global level, albeit with predominant frequency in Europe and the Unites States. The ideology that a bank can be bailed out and suffer little to no consequences is a fallacy which only undermines the general economy as a whole. There […]

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How The Reserve Currency Remains Powerful

  The single most important item that the US government must protect is the US Dollar from losing its fate and confidence as the reserve currency. This reserve currency was founded on the basis that it was “as good as gold” and constituted as real money; however, this ideology is quickly being deteriorated as today’s […]

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Effects of Low Interest Rates – Part 2

As mentioned in my previous post, “Effects of Low Interest Rates Part 1,” the easy monetary policies created by central banks and governments is what fuels economic booms and their consequent busts. Keynesian government intervention skews the business cycle: the creation of credit expansion undoubtedly provides growth, but this growth is now part of an […]

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The Flow of Money into Gold

The first thing I learned in my Thermodynamics class as a young engineering student was that energy can neither created nor destroyed, only transferred. During the course of my research, I have seen how this concept applies equally to wealth: Wealth is neither created nor destroyed, it is only transferred. Depending on the current environment, […]

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