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18 Nov 2015
Inflation, and Why You Should Care About It
When I speak to friends or family members about inflation, they seem to think of it as something that naturally happens. They shrug it off, recalling their first class during Economics 101 and they accept it as if it should surely happen like how the sun rises, or how we have to file our tax returns. Is that really the case, do we accept it as fact of life, one that has been happening since man started transacting with money instead of bartering?
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09 Nov 2015
Why Europe is setting itself up for the next sub-prime crisis
"No one wants to lend to a country when that country would use the loan to pay the interest on previous loans - that's throwing good money after bad."
This comment made by a BBC business analyst in November 2011 made a lot of sense – investment-wise. Why would anyone lend to someone who is drowning in debt and is struggling to pay off the interest on previous loans?
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06 Nov 2015
Why it all boils down to Counterparty Risk
Large banks had become "too big to fail" because they owed too much money and governments could not afford their failure. But how expensive were these bailouts and what will happen when the next crisis requires even larger bailouts?
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06 Nov 2015
Sovereign Debt Infographic
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this infographic was money well spent as it gives a vision
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and feeling to our debt problems by stacking US (and other countries) debt into huge stacks made
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26 Oct 2015
Can your wealth be defined beyond paper and digits?
“The word ‘dollar,’ quite literally, is legally meaningless, and it has been meaningless for the past decade. Federal Reserve notes are not 'dollars'; they are notes denominated in 'dollars.' But what a 'dollar' is, no one knows.”
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12 Oct 2015
Did You Read That Right? – The U.S Debt Limit Show
Come November 5th, the theatre of the United States Congress will once again stage the annual U.S Debt Limit show. However, unlike many award-winning shows on Broadway, this show is seeing dwindling interest from the audience.
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01 Oct 2015
Unlike slumping commodities, silver demand is soaring
It is no longer news that global commodity prices are in a slump due to cooling demand from China. Just about every commodity from soybeans, coffee to base metals have seen declining prices month after month since 2012. While commodity investors rue their decimated portfolio, no one is questioning the reason for the slump in prices - it comes across as a straightforward case of supply and demand.
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29 Sep 2015
Three Common Bullion Storage Misunderstandings
In the industry most customers are only creditors, not owners, and fabricated security and "all risk insurance" claims are often used to derail or mislead legitimate customer enquiries. We detail three of the most common storage misunderstandings and why it is important to know about them.
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28 Sep 2015
BEWARE: What If This Retail Silver Investment Shortage Doesn’t End?
Not only has the present retail silver bullion product shortage continued for several months now, what happens if it never ends? This may seem like a play on hype, but if the U.S. or World experiences another Black Swan event like the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, physical silver demand will likely explode to levels much higher than today.
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22 Sep 2015
Silver Shortages Explained - How Physical Demand has Little Effect on Prices
Physical demand spikes when prices fall but physical demand seldom affects prices themselves as physical trades represents only a tiny proportion of the highly leveraged future exchanges where prices are set. When physical bullon demand increases and prices fall shortages occur.
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