We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]
Thorsten Polleit’s recent essay, The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency, explains the dangers of the current trend in the West to eliminate cash and create a world fiat currency in the place of [more…]
For many months now Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com has been writing about the efforts of a group of non-Western nations, led by Russian economist Sergey Glazyez, to establish a new settlement system for international trade. [more…]
Transfer of our capacity to manufacture goods and mine energy and resources to developing countries served to endorse our virtual assets as we established and dominated new markets with economic colonialism. Ludwig von Mises noted [more…]
FDR had abolished private ownership of gold money but retained gold as the underlying asset for U.S. currency, exchangeable one for the other. Variations in the price of U.S. currency in ounces of gold served [more…]
One of Say’s Laws holds that “we produce to consume”. This is certainly the underlying theme of the Industrial Revolution with its accompanying exponential growth in production of technology, communication, and energy utilization. While private [more…]
Banking came up with its own methods of inflating the supply of legal tender-fiat money, fractional reserve lending. A bank comes to know (a version of the dispersal of knowledge of the market) how much [more…]
Prior to written documents being exchanged as representations of mutually agreed perceived value, the concept of money arose amongst multiple trading groups. This may have taken place prior to the credit/debit system as a substitute [more…]
Since my last ‘Going for Gold’ article I have been asked, from time to time, for advice about the best type of gold to buy and where I would recommend buying it from. I will [more…]
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