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Sound Money Required for Real Budget Discipline

1st June 2023 Patrick Barron 2706 Comments

News here in the US has been full of the latest farce known as raising or not raising the debt ceiling. Today (Thursday, May25, 2023) the Wall Street Journal’s headline story reassures us that progress [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Six

20th February 2023 Going Postal 3092 Comments

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…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Five

13th February 2023 Going Postal 1780 Comments

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…]

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Going for Gold – Part 11, 2023 Update

19th January 2023 Going Postal 3072 Comments

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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Inflation Explained

29th November 2022 Godfrey Bloom 3573 Comments

Many people are confused about inflation, unsurprisingly because politicians & Central Banks want you to be confused. Let me give a few pointers, a quick glossary if you will. Monetary Inflation This is base camp [more…]

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Sound Money Can Prevent What Representative Democracy Does Not

17th August 2022 Patrick Barron 3293 Comments

One of the arrogances of “Western” nations is that our way of life and our liberties are protected by periodic elections as required by constitutions, written (America) or not (Great Britain), containing bills of rights, [more…]

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

10th May 2022 Going Postal 3288 Comments

The big picture here is clear and it is essential to understand that it represents a very significant paradigm shift. Whether it is online or offline, whether it is through a mobile app, an exchange [more…]

Economics

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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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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