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FIAT – What is it Really!

QUESTION: Governments create their own sovereign fiat currency, to facilitate trade, among other reasons. So counterfeit is punishable, in some countries, by death,...

PRIVATE BLOG – The Crisis in Dollar/Euro

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PRIVATE BLOG – Perpetual Forecast for the Dollar Demise

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PRIVATE BLOG – Euro’s Fall Wars of Ukraine’s Disaster

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The Fallacy of the Petrodollar

COMMENT: Hi Marty, Great post on oil and gold. I never owned gold until about 20 years ago. I read about the gold bull of the 70’s and tales of gold mining...

Gold v Dollar

QUESTION #1:  Marty, Thanks for your interesting post about gold and China. Which do you think will perform better this year, gold or the dollar? Thank you. DM...

What’s Going on with Gold?

The goldbugs are cheering that there has been a central bank buying of gold. They think somehow that this is because they are bullish on gold. What seems to be...

PRIVATE BLOG – Year-End Book Squaring

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The British Pound & the FX Crisis

COMMENT #1: Well done on the GBP PP COMMENT #2: Marty; Nobody agreed with you. Socrates is amazing! HJ COMMENT #3: You can buy your place back in Cornwall Gardens....

Late Queen Elizabeth II to be Removed from Currencies

As in late times, as rulers come and go, the currency changes to reflect the change of power. In ancient Rome, for example, they would announce the coming of a new...