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By Miguel Perez-Santalla |
April 26, 2013
Arizona is moving to allow gold and silver coin to be used to pay debts, and – effectively – go shopping.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
April 25, 2013
The recent slide in the gold price has generated substantial demand for bullion that will likely bring forward a financial and systemic disaster for both central and bullion banks that has been brewing for a long time.
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By Nick Barisheff |
April 16, 2013
After gold lost $84 an ounce last Friday, we can conclude the beneficiaries were not gold investors who panicked and sold, but rather those who are fighting to preserve the reputation of the U.S. dollar and the fiat currency model that underpins the global economy.
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By Frank Holmes |
April 9, 2013
Just as every coin has two sides, every data point that doesn’t meet expectations usually has an upside somewhere. For instance, although the gold price has fallen with the strengthening U.S. dollar, the yellow metal is appreciating in Japanese yen.
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By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis |
April 8, 2013
The illusion of deposit safety continues to prevail among the population living in the United States, but does the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC offer a true guarantee for bank deposits?
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By Przemyslaw Radomski |
April 5, 2013
Given this weeks’ performance in the precious metals, people have forgotten that only two weeks ago Cyprus was on the brink of unraveling not only the European union, but the sacrosanct foundations of fractional banking, with the crisis highlighting the fundamental fault lines of both.
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By Karen Roche |
April 3, 2013
In his new book, David Stockman, former Republican U.S. Congressman and a founding partner of Heartland Industrial Partners, levies blame for the dire straits of the global financial system on central bankers, economists and politicians of both parties.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
April 2, 2013
It has been obvious for some time that banks in many jurisdictions are insolvent and that they are simply too big for governments to rescue. It should come as no surprise that central bankers have been considering how to deal with this problem and that they have resolved a solution.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 25, 2013
Gold is slightly lower in most major currencies this morning but remains near four-week highs, underpinned by safe haven demand. Gold is flat in yen terms with the Japanese currency falling again today.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 22, 2013
Gold is slightly lower in all major currencies this morning but remains near a 4 week high, underpinned by safe haven demand due to concern of a financial meltdown in Cyprus and the risk of contagion in other European countries.