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Gold: A use case for the modern era, Part One

4th May 2022 Going Postal 3278 Comments

For decades, physical gold investors have had to contend with superficial, naive and wholly ahistorical “arguments” from the mainstream financial press, from economists and experts of all stripes, claiming that gold is nothing but a [more…]

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Moving house

3rd May 2022 rattuscatchus 3222 Comments

It has been some time since we have moved home so when we decided that we were going to up sticks and move somewhere a little more remote, I thought I knew the game and [more…]

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Is Switzerland still a safe jurisdiction for precious metals investors?

25th April 2022 Going Postal 1845 Comments

Over the last two years, we’ve all witnessed state abuses of power and extreme overreaches the likes of which many average citizens had never imagined they’d see in their own lifetimes. This caused a great [more…]

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Russia’s “gold peg”: Lessons for Western investors

20th April 2022 Going Postal 3037 Comments

It is undeniable that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has polarized Western societies to an extent unseen in decades in any other foreign conflict. For over a month, we have been bombarded unceasingly by all [more…]

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Is gold too expensive?

23rd March 2022 Going Postal 3934 Comments

Over the last couple of years we witnessed quite an extraordinary ride in gold prices. An impressive ascent until the last quarter of 2020 was followed by a pullback that scared many speculators away, which [more…]

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A liberal makeover for Minsk

15th February 2022 Zombie Ramboz 3952 Comments

It is often said by “our guys” that the Eastern Europeans are resistant to many of the problems Western Europe and other US vassal states currently experience because of their history of communism, the suggestion [more…]

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Eliminating Legal Tender Laws: A First Step to Sound Money and Financial Truth

10th January 2022 Patrick Barron 4456 Comments

Mention the term “legal tender” in polite company and most people will resemble a deer in the headlights. In simple terms legal tender laws grant monopoly status to money, usually fiat, produced by government; i.e., [more…]

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Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 3721 Comments

I have written on the subject of currency debasement many times, but it is now reaching crunch-time – even for the pound, dollar, yen and euro.  Most respected economists persist in defining inflation as a [more…]

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Going for Gold – Part 10

7th December 2021 Going Postal 3939 Comments

Eagerly anticipated by coin collectors across the world, the 2022 Proof Sovereign range was launched by the Royal Mint on 15th November and sold out within the first hour. Dropping the usual Pistrucci designed George [more…]

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