Approaching 100 Years of the Fed
December 23rd is the 100th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve. The chart below is a measurement of the value of a 1913 dollar today....
China Gold Rush Timeline: Infographic
Great infographic from the Real Asset Co.
Record Gold Demand in China Drives Prices Higher
It turns out that among China’s 1.3 billion people, there are enough gold bugs to move the market. The newly affluent Chinese are driving...
Gold as Good as it Ever Was
It’s hard for many so-called “elite” economists to think about gold as an asset, probably because they’ve devoted so much of their careers to...
How to Lose Money Fast
Don’t waste your money with stop-losses. There’s no promise that you’ll like the bid you’re forced to take like the recent EUR/USD squeeze.
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Covert Global Currency Wars
“The lessons for the present are clear. Today most advanced industrial economies remain, to varying extents, in the grip of slow recoveries from the...
Like a Rolling Stone
Japan’s stock market is up 9.3% this year (chart 1). But in US dollar terms it’s up only 0.6% (chart 2). As you can...
Insanity: The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin
If you haven’t heard of the latest ploy to monetize America’s debt, read onward.
In the last few weeks an obscure idea has come on...
Gold Today, Gold Tomorrow
In the last five years the price of an ounce of gold has increased 93%. Easy monetary policies and the downgrade of many sovereign...
Who is Buying Gold?
In 2012 there were stunning trends in gold buying. Perhaps the most stunning was who was buying gold to lower risk from economic turmoil.
The...