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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Three

30th January 2023 Going Postal 0

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…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Two

23rd January 2023 Going Postal 0

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…]

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Going for Gold – Part 11, 2023 Update

19th January 2023 Going Postal 0

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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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part One

16th January 2023 Going Postal 0

Having been born into and grown up within the never-ending promise of prosperity guaranteed by Keynes’s gospel that saved us all from the purgatory of the Depression, I like others only began to see a [more…]

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Parity hysterics: What it means and what it doesn’t, Part One

22nd July 2022 Going Postal 0

There’s been a flurry of articles, news stories and headlines lately over the developments in the FOREX market, specifically over the moves of the EUR/USD currency pair. As headwinds on all levels, economic, geopolitical and [more…]

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

20th April 2022 Going Postal 0

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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Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them

3rd January 2022 Emile Woolf 0

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 0

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…]

Collecting

Going for Gold – Part 9

11th October 2021 Going Postal 0

As well as buying precious metals for their intrinsic value there are many people who collect coins, bars and other items and pay far more than their value in weight because of a perceived value [more…]

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