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Inflation Explained

29th November 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

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 0

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 0

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…]

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

4th May 2022 Going Postal 0

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 0

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 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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Is gold too expensive?

23rd March 2022 Going Postal 0

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

10th January 2022 Patrick Barron 0

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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All this may be obvious now – but it didn’t start that way!

20th December 2021 Emile Woolf 0

Why do I persist in writing these essays on economic issues? Certainly not to influence government policy – that would indeed be a forlorn hope, despite the strength of support coming from most of my [more…]

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