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 | Thorsten Polleit |
 The Fiasco of Fiat Money  |
| I. Today's worldwide paper-, or "fiat-," money regime is an economically and socially destructive scheme — with far-reaching and seriously harmful economic and societal consequences, effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine.
Fiat money is inflationary; it benefits a few at the expense of many others; it causes boom-and-bust cycles; it leads tooverindebtedness; it corrupts society's morals; and it will ultimately end in a depression on a grand scale.Wednesday, July 25, 2018 |
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 | Alan Leishman |
| Mineral Specimen Collecting: Silver and Gold |
| It is anticipated that those readers interested in the Precious Metals, Gold and Silver, and the PM share market, may find interest in these anecdotal tales of mines and minerals, and enjoy the beauty of one of nature's hidden treasures; --- mineral specimens. ---
Note: Gold and Silver are metallic elements. They are also minerals when they occur in pure form in nature, and are then described as native gold and native silver.Thursday, July 19, 2018 |
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 | Perth Mint Blog |
 12 astonishing things about gold |
| As gold coin makers, we get to work with one of the most amazing materials in the Universe.
Here are 12 astonishing features we’ve found cited about precious gold:
· Gold is made in supernovas – massive cosmic explosions that hurl out materials which gather together to form planets.
· Most of Earth’s gold is buried too deep to be recoverable.Thursday, July 19, 2018 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Blame Gold |
| We have been talking about The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
July 23, 2017: The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
As you probably guessed from the three-word title, the book can be summarized in two words, which are: “blame gold.”
This, as we have seen, is actually a relatively new notion, even if it enjoys some popularity today. The general consensus, which later (after 1950) became the Keynesian consensus, did not blame gold, or indeed, monetary policy in general, for the Great DTuesday, July 17, 2018 |
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| Gold - Perth Mint Blog |
12 astonishing things about gold  |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Second Front In The Gold World |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| A banker for all seasons: the life and times of John Exter – champion of sound money |
| The following is an introduction to a series of essays GoldMoney will be publishing, written by John Butler and Barry Downs, looking at the life and times of John Exter – leader in the fight against Richard Nixon, Alan Greenspan and the debasement of the US dollar. The source material for these essays includes John Exter's collected papers and works; the personal experiences, diary entries and recollections of the author; and interviews with former colleagues, friends and family of John Exter's.Thursday, July 12, 2018 |
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| Jan Skoyles Real Asset Co. - The Real Asset Co |
 The London Gold Market: What’s behind the smoke and mirrors |
| In our last two major research pieces we have been looking at the working parts of the gold market and where the heart of it lies. We’re trying to help investors understand where gold prices are really set.
Today we take a look at the London gold market, an older and arguably larger market than COMEX.
A couple of weeks ago we explained how we had ‘found that the COMEX was still the beating heart of the gold market.’ Since this research piece, Bron Sucheki, whose work featured in our last piece,Wednesday, July 4, 2018 |
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| History of Gold |
| (-1780) Gold and Silver in the Code of Hammurabi |
| When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.Sunday, July 1, 2018 |
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
Fiat 33  |
| "Sir, I would say, "Old World Order" to return.
To understand/explain better: A very easy way
to view this "order", would be to simply say that
the American Experience is reaching the end! As we know,
world war two left Europe and the world economy destroyed.
Many thinkers of that period thought that the world was about
to enter a decades long depression as it worked to rebuild real
assets lost in the conflict. It was this war that so impacted the
idea of looking positively toward the fuFriday, June 29, 2018 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| How the Nazis Came to Power: The People Thought They Were Free |
| History repeats because human nature remains the same...CV
recommended reading by Ron Paul...
An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer, 1955
But Then It Was Too Late
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it becamFriday, June 29, 2018 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The View From 2011 |
| Today, we will continue our discussion of the “gold sterilization” of 1937.
June 18, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937
June 25, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 #2: Fumbling and Bumbling
We will look at an influential 2011 paper by Douglas Irwin, available here:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17595.pdf
All in all, I think the paper is pretty good, at least in its basic descriptions. It meanders into the usual channels of pointless Monetarism, with some equally pointless math, but it doesMonday, June 25, 2018 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Nonexistent 'Social Costs' of a Gold Standard System |
| One of the odd notions that has come down through the years is that a
gold standard system has “social costs.” It does not. It creates a
profit.
Of course, it does take effort to dig gold out of the ground. However,
gold production never ceased after the end of the world gold standard
in 1971. Roughly half of all the gold ever mined, in all of history,
has been mined after 1971. Annual production today is the highest in
history, and about double what it was in 1970. People seem happy to
continuThursday, June 21, 2018 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Copernicus, Galileo and Gold. Part I |
| We are deceived when we consent to think about the “price of gold”. At the very outset of our thoughts regarding gold, we are wrong, just as astronomers prior to Copernicus were wrong in thinking about the solar system as geo-centric, with the Sun, Moon and planets describing perfect circles around Earth. Gold is - to follow the astronomical simile - the center of the monetary universe, and the planets - the currencies - circle the Sun, which represents gold.
The correct starting point isSunday, June 17, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Understanding money and prices |
| This article explains the money side of prices, and why government currencies, unbacked by gold, are doomed to collapse. And why gold, which is the sound money chosen by markets throughout history, will retain or increase its purchasing power measured in the goods it buys over the coming years.Very few people have a full understanding of the relationship between money and goods. This is the relationship that sets prices. Yet, without that understanding, central banks will almost certainly fail iSunday, June 17, 2018 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| WILL POVERTY, DISEASE AND WAR LEAD TO 3 BILLION FEWER PEOPLE |
| There are 51 million American households that cannot make ends meet. This means that 43% of American households can’t afford a basic middle class life. Of these, 35 million are dubbed ALICE which stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed with a further 16 million households living in poverty.
It is absolutely remarkable that in the world’s biggest and “richest”country, just under 50% of the households are struggling to afford a basic middle class life and that 50 million people liveThursday, May 24, 2018 |
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| Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| The ultimate guide to silver |
| Thinking about investing in silver? Here's your essential guide to the history, culture and science of one of the most remarkable metals known to man.
. The Periodic Table lists elements in order of atomic weight. At 47 on the table, silver is represented by 'Ag' from argentum, the Latin description for white, shiny metal.
. Silver is one of the seven so-called 'metals of antiquity' which mankind identified and found uses for thousands of years ago.
. First mined around 3,000 BC iTuesday, May 22, 2018 |
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| Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Silver and the Great Future of Mexico |
| Lecture of the author at the solemn ceremony of his appointment as Honorary Professor of Northwest Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy.
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Mexico City
June 27, 2017.
Your Excellency, Ambassador Edward Malayan; Doctor Vladimir Shamakhov, Director of the Northwest Institute of Management of Russian Presidential Academy,members of the Honorable Diplomatic Corps here present, and esteemed audience:
I am greatly privileged to be with all ofSaturday, May 19, 2018 |
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 | Steve Saville - Speculative Investor |
| Why bad economic theories remain popular |
| Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, the most prominent “Austrian” economists of the time, anticipated the 1929 stock market crash and correctly predicted the dire consequences of government attempts to artificially stimulate economic growth in the aftermath of the crash. John Maynard Keynes, on the other hand, was totally blindsided by the stock market crash and the economic disaster of the early 1930s. And yet, Keynes’s theories gained enormous popularity during the 1930s whereas the work of Saturday, May 12, 2018 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Economic Aspects of the Pension Problem: Part Two |
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