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

20th April 2022 Going Postal 3058 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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How Bad Is Currency Debasement of the Dollar?

4th April 2022 Patrick Barron 1811 Comments

Well, currency debasement is pretty bad, as a few key statistics will reveal, but first some background. At the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 the US agreed that it would redeem dollars for gold at [more…]

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Sound Money Is a Pre-requisite to Peace, Prosperity, and Freedom

25th October 2021 Patrick Barron 3781 Comments

There are many good recommendations promoted by Austrian school economists for improving the  economy. Although we enjoy successes periodically, most–such as deregulating trucking and airline pricing–involve eliminating previous government interventions. These successes are to be [more…]

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