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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| What makes gold good money |
| People say that gold is rare this is why it makes good money. To make an analogy to the porridge in Goldilocks, the temperature could not be too cold or too hot. If gold were too common, or too rare, it would not work as money. Think of sand, which is too common, or blue diamonds which are too rare (and diamonds would not work as money anyway.
Rather than focusing on its rarity, let’s look at extracting it. It has generally held true that the cost to mine an ounce of gold was around one ounce ofTuesday, January 22, 2019 |
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 | John Paul Koning - Bullion Star |
| How California stayed with gold when the rest of the U.S. adopted fiat money |
| We are ten years into the age of bitcoin. But people are still using national currencies like yen, dollars, and pounds to buy things. What does history have to say about switches from one type of monetary system to another? In this post I’ll dig for lessons from California’s successful resistance to a fiat standard that was imposed on it in the 1860s by the rest of the U.Saturday, January 19, 2019 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| 2019: The Beginning Of The End (Free Premium Report) |
| Now that it’s 2019, we’re going to start the new year here at Peak Prosperity by responding to the wishes of our premium subscribers and making our most recent premium report free to everyone.
For those unfamiliar with our work, it’s based on the idea that humanity is hurtling towards a disaster of our own making. Several powerful and unsustainable trends Monday, January 14, 2019 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Defending a Venezuelan Homestead: “Eventually people will come for what you have” |
| If you aren’t aware, a short time before the collapse became evident, the Venezuelan government confiscated all the guns from people. This left the population disarmed and vulnerable. In this article, Jose discusses some of the very real dangers of being at a rural homestead and ways to defend yourself if you do not have a gun.
by J.G. Martinez D.
My cousins there in the open country of Venezuela tMonday, January 14, 2019 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| A Metaphor For America: 700 Pound Man Plans To Eat And Play Video Games While Naked Until He Dies |
| 34-year-old Casey King is so obese that he can’t work, he has to bathe outside in a trough like a pig, and he has to rely on his father to constantly take care of him. He now weighs more than 700 pounds, but he just keeps on eating massive amounts of unhealthy food. Just like America as a whole, he has absolutely no self-discipline and absolutely no desire to turn his life around. On some level he understands that Monday, January 14, 2019 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| “The U.S. Will Go Broke.” The Case For |
| As the end of year rally continues into January, it’s time to look ahead to tax season. But when you make your final retirement contributions for 2018, should you add precious metals to the mix? Eric Sprott breaks down all the gold and silver news you need to protect yourself for the bumpy ride ahead.
In this edition of the Wrap-Up, you’ll hear:
Why banks are capping silver prices.
The “stunning newMonday, January 14, 2019 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 Swamp Thang |
| Chuck and Nancy coming onto the TV audience as “Mommy and Daddy” Tuesday night was a nice gag, putting the “nanny” into the Nanny State, which is getting more and more like the Tranny State — the Deep State in drag. Will the supply of “undocumented” nannies be cut off to the Creative Classniks of Brooklyn and Pacific Heights? That is the question. Not this silly-ass debate over The Wall. Who is going to watch the kids while we’re Friday, January 11, 2019 |
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| John Paul Koning - Bullion Star |
| Should we have to line up for money or not |
| I finally had some time to read George Selgin's excellent Floored! over the Christmas holiday.
Some family members saw me reading the book and asked me what it was about. The subject that George is tackling—two types of central bank operating systems—is quite technical, so I wasn't sure how to break it down for them. But in hindsight, here's how I would go about it. I'm going to explain what the issues are in terms of an instrument we all use and understand: good ol' fashioned banknotes.
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 | Jeff Clark - GoldSilver |
| How and Where to Buy Silver Coins |
| Looking to buy silver coins? You’ve come to the right place!This handy guide outlines everything you need to know, including the advantages of owning silver coins, the different coins available, the best coins to buy for investment, and where to buy them. We also include our “Investor’s Edge” with each section…Advantages of Silver CoinsMany investors don’t realize that silver coins offer benefits far beyond price appreciation.Consider the advantages you gain by buying silver coins. Similar to goSunday, January 6, 2019 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Fielding my grandson’s questions about gold and banking |
| My grandson had quite a day at school.He had learned that the economy had been suffering from things called Panics, capital P, during the 19th century and had another big one in the early 20th century.He had been told that responsible, public-spirited men like J. P. Morgan had organized a central bank to prevent those Panics.He and other bankers finally got the government to go along with their idea and pass it into law in late 1913.And wouldn’t you know it — we’ve had no more Panics since then.Saturday, January 5, 2019 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Rick Rule – The Best People Beat The Best Commodities - Proven and Probable |
| Rick Rule of Sprott Global Resource Investments sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss why investors need to place more
importance and prudence on selecting the best of the best people as they will
outperform the best commodities. Mr. Rule shares his unique, proven perspective
and selection process as he outlines many aspects such as good stewards of
capital, change of control fees, optionalilty, the ability to attract capital,
integrity, marketing, VP, Board of DirectoSaturday, January 5, 2019 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Secret of Wealth Preservation - Jeff Nielson |
| We have a failure to communicate. The vast
majority of the investment public in the Western world has no understanding –
at all – about how to preserve and protect their wealth. Of the minority of the
investment community with some understanding of wealth preservation, almost
invariably it is a flawed understanding.
Understanding wealth preservation begins
with having a detailed and correct understanding of
“money”.
Understanding money begins with correctly comprehending the difference betweSaturday, January 5, 2019 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
 Predicting The Next Crisis, Programming Behavior: “The Ability To Track Entire Population” |
| This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at PersonalLiberty.com. His site is Alt-Market.com.
Editor’s Comment: Unless you have gone well out of your way to stay off the grid completely, and out of the regular dealings of society, then you are being tracked, constantly surveilled and monitored – not for misbehavior and criminal activity so much as for behavior, typical activity, mass population movements, and flash points for crisis.
Good predictions require a complete sFriday, January 4, 2019 |
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 | Frank Shostak |
Why Fractional-Reserve Banking Would Be Limited in an Unhampered Market  |
| The so-called multiplier arises as a result of the fact that banks are legally permitted to use money that is placed in demand deposits. Banks treat this type of money as if it was loaned to them, thus loaning it out while simultaneously allowing depositors to spend that money.RELATED: "Austrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier" by Robert BatemarcoFor example, if John places $100 in demand deposit at Bank One he doesn't relinquish his claim over the deposited $100. He has unlimiteFriday, January 4, 2019 |
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| Jeff Clark - Goldsilver |
| Gold Jewelry’s Real Advantage: Wearable, Transportable Wealth |
| I vividly remember the first gold coin I ever bought.A one-ounce American gold Eagle. When I first opened the package, I was instantly struck by its beauty, shine, and refinement. And I loved the weight of it in my hand. I must’ve looked at it a hundred times over the next several days.What I did next, though, is telling: I stuck it in a safe. And there it sat, in the dark and out of sight.It was, well, anticlimactic. I loved the coin, but I couldn’t do much with it… couldn’t show it off, couldnThursday, January 3, 2019 |
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 | Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk - Mises.org |
| Our Passive Trade Balance |
| Editor's Note: Published in January 1914 in Neue Frei Presse,"Our Passive Trade Balance" (“Unsere passive Handelsbilanz”) would prove to be Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's last publication before his death. Ludwig von Mises mentions the article in an essay written after Böhm-Bawerk's death, but to our knowledge, this is the first time the essay has appeared in English. Nathan Keeble located a scan of the article posted by the Austrian National Archives. Translation by Kai Weiss.]As is well known, the tTuesday, January 1, 2019 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Ron Paul: ‘When Our Financial System Crashes…The Elites…Will Suffer The Least’ |
| When the housing bubble popped in 2007, the Federal Reserve went to work to re-inflate the bubble by printing more money – quantitative easing. But the policy has made matters much worse, as now everything is a bubble, and according to Ron Paul, when it bursts, only the elite will come out unscathed.
The Federal Reserve has once again created an artificial and unsustainable economic bubble. Central planning still doesn’t work, and the sooner we move to sound money the better. Ron Paul discusses Sunday, December 30, 2018 |
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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
| America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| "Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes
its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty)
Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used
throughout Europe.
A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank
currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Last Time This Indicator Was At These Levels Gold Surged 485: “At Today’s Prices It Would Take Gold Over $6,000 Per Ounce” |
| After a stellar start in 2016 investors saw their gold holdings get hammered into the end of the year. But the gold bull market may see a resurgence in 2017 after President Trump takes office later this month.
As Future Money Trends highlights in the following video, there are a number of factors that will contribute to its next big move forward, including one particular indicator that has been so accurate in the past it’s impossible to ignore:
The reality is there is only one single indicator tSaturday, December 29, 2018 |
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 | Gordon Long - Market Analytics |
| China Potentially Threatens a Near Term Us Treasury Short Squeeze! |
| Problems in China are looming on top of an already very tenuous and misunderstood
situation in the US Financial Markets. Additionally, Federal Reserve Policy has
made the situation even more combustible!
As a result of a Trump Victory inspired bond market massacre there are now
few places that a yield starved world can presently find better risk-adjusted
yields than in US Treasuries. With China now being forced to sell their FX
Reserves and thereby creating the much needed supply so eSaturday, December 29, 2018 |
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