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Dollar’s Reign May Not Last Much Longer (If History Is Any Guide)
Dollar’s Reign May Not Last Much Longer (If History Is Any Guide) Chart of the Week #6 Today’s chart ties into the de-dollarization trend we’ve been talking about a lot lately in these pages. When most people around the world think about money, they’re probably thinking of the U.S. Dollar. That’s because the greenback is the world’s […]
Gold’s return as money
Gold’s return as money The consequences of Russia and her Asian allies embracing gold backing for their currencies are poorly understood in western capital markets. This move could lead to the destruction of the global fiat currency system. According to evidence which is widely ignored in western capital markets, a move by Russia to put […]
History Tells Us to Own Gold When Central Banks Run Out of Control
HISTORY TELLS US TO OWN GOLD WHEN CENTRAL BANKS RUN OUT OF CONTROL “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” happen with regular intervals as Charles Mackay wrote about. It seems that the world experiences more delusions and madness than truth and sanity. The pattern is always the same. The economy is never in […]
Forced Liquidation
Forced Liquidation Historians of the future, pan-roasting fresh-caught June bugs over their campfires, may wonder when, exactly, was the moment when the financial world broke with reality. Was it when Nixon slammed the “gold window” shut? When “maestro” Alan Greenspan first bamboozled a Senate finance committee? When Pets.com face-planted 268 days after its IPO? When […]
Bretton Woods Is Dead: What Next?
Bretton Woods Is Dead: What Next? French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has publicly admitted something normally reserved for backroom discussion in the circles of Europe’s governing elite at an event honoring the 75thanniversary of Bretton Woods (the conference which created the foundations for the post WWII world order). At this event, Le Maire stated ever-so candidly […]
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System The Impending Crisis At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the […]
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis”
Mike Maloney: “One Hell Of A Crisis” Crashing stocks, bonds, real estate & currency all at once? Mike Maloney, monetary historian and founder of GoldSilver.com, has just released two new chapters of his excellent Hidden Secrets Of Money video series. In producing the series, Maloney has reviewed several thousand years of monetary history and has […]
The Global 1% Is Destroying Democracy
The Global 1% Is Destroying Democracy Unraveling a web of dark money “Wherever you live in the world, you’ve been robbed. Not by a hidden bandit, but a global kleptocracy: the super-rich who’ve managed to rob the poor blind in every corner of the globe for the past seven decades.” — Michelle Chen We’re living in a time […]
The Degrading Facts of a Fake Money Hole in the Head
The Degrading Facts of a Fake Money Hole in the Head Squishy Fact Finding Mission Today we begin with the facts. But not just the facts; the facts of the facts. We want to better understand just what it is that is provoking today’s ludicrous world. To clarify, we are not after the cold hard […]
The US Two-Tier Monetary System that Ended in 1971
The US Two-Tier Monetary System that Ended in 1971 QUESTION: You said the US had a two-tier monetary system under Bretton Woods. Can you explain that one, please? DHJ ANSWER: When Roosevelt confiscated gold, he created, in reality, a two-tier monetary system quite frankly as the medieval city of Florence. The Great Financial Panic of 1344 […]
Washington Is Destroying American Power
Washington Is Destroying American Power Readers at home and around the world want to know what to make of the announcement that China henceforth will conduct oil purchases and sales in gold-backed Chinese currency. Is this an attack by Russia and China on the US dollar? Will the dollar weaken and collapse from being […]
Trump Left Saudi Arabia Off His Immigration Ban… Here’s the Shocking Reason Why
Trump Left Saudi Arabia Off His Immigration Ban… Here’s the Shocking Reason Why On August 15, 1971, President Nixon killed the last remnants of the gold standard. It was one of the most significant events in US history—on par with the 1929 stock market crash, JFK’s assassination, or the 9/11 attacks. Yet most people know […]
Opinion Infected by Bias
Opinion Infected by Bias QUESTION: Marty; Why do you say your opinion is not worth much? You have been around for some time and you are the only analyst to have been behind the curtain. If anyone’s opinion carries any weight, it has to be yours. RJ ANSWER:Yes. Experience is everything. You cannot forecast something you […]
Gold is the spectre haunting our monetary system
Gold is the spectre haunting our monetary system A scramble for gold has begun as central banks bet against US dollar inflation CREDIT:ALAMY For a century, elites have worked to eliminate monetary gold, both physically and ideologically. This began in 1914, with the UK’s entry into the First World War. The Bank of England wanted […]
