Nowhere in the world is gold a more significant cultural touchstone than India. Last Sunday, CBS broadcast news magazine 60 Minutes examined India’s deep cultural and religious attachment to gold , a connection that has made India one of the world’s ...
Tag: Monetary History
Feature - February 15th, 2012
All terms: BRICs, buy gold, Current Analysis, fiat currency, financial education, financial history, Gold, India, Monetary History, Money
Feature - June 29th, 2011
As the holders of U.S. dollars—and other fiat currencies—watch their purchasing power diminish, many are inspired to look for better, safer places to store and protect their wealth. Meanwhile, the free market, responding to a need, is busily offering al ...
All terms: currency, Current Analysis, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Government, Monetary History, Money, precious metals, Ron Paul
Blog Post - June 2nd, 2011
There is a article today by the New York Federal Reserve about the mistake of 1937 .
The gist of the blog post states that when FDR took office there was a policy of reflation. The idea was to re-inflate prices to their pre-depre ...
Feature - May 18th, 2011
The faith of some investors is flagging, as silver prices plunged from a peak near $50 to a low of $33.10 on May 6, then spent the next two weeks bouncing around the $34 mark, dipping as low as $32.31 on May 12. The abrupt crash evoked “I-told-you-so’s” ...
Blog Post - May 12th, 2011
One of the precious few things that politicians, historians, and economists can all agree on is that policy makers blew it in the Great Depression. During the singular moment when they should have most allowed free markets to take care of things—the ...
Blog Post - May 9th, 2011
In reading one of Doug Casey’s recent articles, he reminded us of an oft-cited, and unfortunately, oft-forgotten line from the Classic Roman poet Juvenal— quis custodiet ipsos custodes?— who watches the watchmen? The timeless line questions the ultima ...
Blog Post - May 4th, 2011
The Federal Government tells those of us in the United States that our economy is steadily growing and that all of us have grown much more prosperous than our parents and grandparents were—that in fact our standard of living has improved.
The proble ...
All terms: Classic Maloney, CPI, economic cycles, economic future, Free Market, GDP, Government, Monetary History, Risk
Blog Post - April 12th, 2011
As we stated yesterday, WealthCycles is releasing a three part series this week designed to make you think. We will be playing the contrarian by pointing out some of the flawed reasoning for buying gold and silver.
Our goal is to get you to ponder a ...
All terms: Commodities, economic history, Free Market, Gold, History, Monetary History
Feature - March 16th, 2011
The gold/silver ratio is the free market’s signal of how silver’s value is rising or falling in comparison to gold. And right now, the free market is signaling that silver is a really good deal.
The gold/silver ratio is simply an indication of how m ...
All terms: Deflation, Gold, Gold/Silver Ratio, Inflation, Monetary History, Silver, silver prices, U.S. Dollar, Fundamentals
Feature - March 9th, 2011
“The beginning of the end for the United States economy started with the inception of the Federal Reserve.”
--Michael Maloney, Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver
The most nefarious, morally bankrupt and destructive institution in the ...