Zero Hedge: Currency Debasement & The Death Of Roman Emperors
byCorrelation does not necessarily imply causation. In other words, just because two sets of data may follow a similar pattern, it does not mean…
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Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot
byZero Hedge published an article on Canadian Bullion Services (CBS) last week. Other sites ran similar articles. The common thread through these articles, and…
Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard
byMatt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist ofThe Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a…
How the Blockchain and Gold Can Work Together
byA look into monetary history shows that people, when given freedom of choice, opted for precious metals as money. This doesn’t come as a…
Ted Cruz Has The Best Idea In The Presidential Debate: A Return To The Gold Standard
byThe LA Times’s Michael Hiltzik recently wrote a column slamming the GOP field in general and one of the two front-runners, Ted Cruz, in…
A Free Market in Interest Rates
byUnless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve…
Paper Money versus the Gold Standard
byWe are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The U.S. Federal Reserve has manipulated key interest rates down to…
Ted Cruz Rockets Up With Gold And A Flat Tax
byTed Cruz rocked in the presidential race during the CNBC debate. His biggest breakthrough, even more important than his crowd-pleasing holding the media to…
What’s Different about Monetary Policy?
byMany people agree that it’s important to move to a free market in money (i.e. the gold standard). They also say that it’s just…
Open Letter to Alexis Tsipras
byDear Prime Minister Tsipras, First, congratulations for mustering the popular support to say “no” to the troika. The euro has long offered Greece a…