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Going For Gold – Part 5

15th April 2021 Going Postal 1737 Comments

Previous articles in this series have focused heavily on British coins produced by the Royal Mint. I thought it would be interesting to do some articles on precious metal coins from other countries around the [more…]

Economics

Going for Gold – Part 4

1st April 2021 Going Postal 2074 Comments

In this article I discuss the different quality standards a coin can be made to. History of Coin Making I thought it would be useful to start with a comparison of how coins in Britain [more…]

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Going for Gold – Part 3

25th March 2021 Going Postal 2386 Comments

Britannia has a long and established presence on our nation’s coins; first appearing on coins from the Roman era.  In AD119 Emperor Hadrian introduced a number of coins that depicted a female figure who personified [more…]

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Going for Gold – Part 2

18th March 2021 Going Postal 4106 Comments

Sovereigns have a long and interesting history; first produced during the reign of King Henry VII on 28th October 1489 by the Royal Mint on his instruction to create “A new money of Gold”.  Prior [more…]

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Going for Gold – Part 1

11th March 2021 Going Postal 2468 Comments

Over the last 6 months I’ve taken an interest in buying gold and silver, for reasons which I will deal with in a separate article. Much research has been undertaken and I have gained some basic [more…]

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Bitcoin Complacency Understandable but Dangerous

9th February 2021 Godfrey Bloom 3939 Comments

Let me make something clear at the outset of this article. I am a bitcoin supporter, I own bitcoin & the concept is brilliant & I have supported & observed it for years. Glad I [more…]

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The Economic Chasm Confronting Us – A Layman’s Assessment

18th January 2021 Emile Woolf 2370 Comments

The huge economic harm caused by Covid-19 is seen and experienced clearly and directly on a daily basis. Less obvious is the damage wrought in every welfare-driven democracy whose government finds itself in the dual-role [more…]

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My Crypto Currency Journey, Part one

20th October 2020 Godfrey Bloom 4190 Comments

As a a professional research economist my first contact with crypto currency came with my ever increasing commitment to Austrian School economics over a decade ago. Always a free marketeer in the traditional classical liberal mode [more…]

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Where we are – and where we might have been

13th October 2020 Emile Woolf 3858 Comments

More than six months have elapsed since the devastating lockdown measures were first imposed on the nation, since when we have been shrouded in a fog of confusion and ineptitude. The authorities may have been [more…]

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