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It’s time to start thinking about inflation
It’s time to start thinking about inflation In the year 215 AD, the young Roman Emperor Caracalla, then just 27 years of age, decided to ‘fix’ Rome’s perennial inflation problem by minting a brand new coin. Caracalla’s predecessors over the previous several decades had ordered an astonishing debasement of Roman currency; the silver content in […]
Gold vs. the stock market
Gold vs. the stock market More than 3,000 years ago in the early 12th century BC, Greco-Roman legend tells us of a mythical pair of monsters located in the Strait of Messina in southern Italy. The monsters were named Scylla and Charybdis. And both Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid describe the terror of sailors who […]
28 trillion reasons to have a Plan B
28 trillion reasons to have a Plan B At the close of business on Monday March 1st, just a few days ago, the US national debt crossed $28 trillion for the first time in history. To the penny, in fact, the national debt hit $28,004,376,276,999.35. And bear in mind that figure doesn’t include the $1.9 […]
Historical lessons in prosperity vs. poverty
Historical lessons in prosperity vs. poverty As the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan had a lot to prove. So he set his eyes on the biggest prize in the known world at the time: southern China. Kublai Khan completed his conquest of China in 1279, forging a new empire and creating the Yuan dynasty. […]
This is a Financial Revolution
This is a Financial Revolution At precisely 2:32pm Eastern time on May 6, 2010, the US stock market started to drop. The decline was sudden, and vicious. Within minutes, more than $1 trillion of market capitalization had vanished, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing nearly 10% of its value. This event became known as […]
Five ways to loosen Big Tech’s grip on your life
Five ways to loosen Big Tech’s grip on your life I imagine there are countless people right now who feel a wide range of emotions when it comes to Big Tech companies. Anger. Disgust. Confusion. Fear. We’ve watched with exasperation as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. have systematically squashed intellectual dissent; their actions have been […]
Why the price of silver could skyrocket
Why the price of silver could skyrocket By the mid-6th century BC, Darius the Great was ‘King of Kings’, ruling over the vast Achaemenid Empire. By that time, gold and silver had already been in use by earlier civilizations for thousands of years. There are cuneiform tablets that are nearly 4,000 years old from ancient […]
FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks
FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks Yesterday the Chair of the FDIC released an astonishing video asking Americans to keep their money in the bank. Accompanied by soft piano music playing in the background, the official said: “Your money is safe at the banks. The last thing you should be doing […]
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults On November 6, 2000, then US presidential candidate George W. Bush told a crowd of cheering supporters, “they misunderestimated me.” Now, if English is not your native language, allow me to clear the air: ‘misunderestimate’ is not a word. But then again, George W. Bush […]
Start thinking about silver before it becomes popular again
Start thinking about silver before it becomes popular again In 663 BC, King Ashurbanipal of the Assyrian Empire invaded Egypt and sacked the city of Waset (located in modern day Luxor on the Nile River). Ashurbanipal vanquished the city, purportedly seizing more than 75 metric tons of silver for his personal collection. At the time […]
How Anti-Fragile are you?
How Anti-Fragile are you? I arrived back home to Puerto Rico late last night after traveling back from our Total Access event in Las Vegas. It was probably around 11:15 pm when I climbed into bed. And, within minutes, just as the sound of the waves outside was carrying me off to sleep, the whole […]
Here’s a dirty secret few people know about gold
Here’s a dirty secret few people know about gold In 1962 in a picturesque setting in Santa Barbara, California, two local entrepreneurs opened a low-cost, roadside inn where the nightly room rate was just $6. They called it Motel 6. And today the chain has grown to over 1,400 locations. If you want the most […]
Four ways that Uncle Sam will respond to its $75 trillion insolvency
Four ways that Uncle Sam will respond to its $75 trillion insolvency Last week I told you that the US government recently reported a negative net worth of MINUS $75 TRILLION. That’s not a type-o. According to the Treasury Department’s annual financial report for Fiscal Year 2018 (which they just published last week), the US government […]
If Donald Trump is the King of Debt, these guys were the Kings of Inflation
If Donald Trump is the King of Debt, these guys were the Kings of Inflation Maximilian Bern had saved up 100,000 German marks for what should have been a modest, but comfortable retirement. But in 1923, he withdrew every last cent, and spent it all on one purchase: a subway ticket. He rode around his […]
