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Investing in physical commodities can help preserve your wealth

Posted on March 18th, 2009, by admin

Most people have an unfailing tendency to put their trust in other people.  Which isn’t always a bad thing…until it comes to your money.
There are just too many variables involved with putting your money into people and companies.  Maybe your investment banker pushes you to put all your money in a hot new company…and that [...]

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Questioning the safety of long-term U.S. treasury bonds

Posted on March 10th, 2009, by admin

In the recent months, foreign and domestic investors alike have been stocking up on long-term U.S. treasury bills in record numbers, causing a 19.9% surge in the prices of the treasury bills in a single month. (If you’re not sure why that percentage is so significant, you can find more information in my article called [...]

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The value of gold in God’s eyes

Posted on March 3rd, 2009, by admin

Many investors still don’t see gold as being a wise investment option, mainly because they just aren’t aware of its true worth. After all, we haven’t used gold as a currency for many years, so people are putting their faith in our current currency of choice: the dollar bill.
There are some that do realize the [...]

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Putting the U.S. government’s mounting debt into perspective (how big is it, really?)

Posted on February 23rd, 2009, by admin

We all know that the U.S. economy is in trouble. But are you aware of the full extent of the current economic crisis? Basically, in recent months the government has loaned, invested or promised $7.8 trillion not only to failing American institutions but to struggling banks outside U.S. borders.
$7.8 trillion is an obscure number for [...]

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US T-bills: a safe bet in troubling times?

Posted on February 17th, 2009, by admin

To say that confidence in global markets is down lately would be a bit of an understatement. These days, investors large and small alike are looking for safer places to hold their capital until the storm clears and things start to settle down a bit.
 Many large institutions are gobbling up USD, but it’s not what [...]

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Surviving the current credit tsunami

Posted on February 11th, 2009, by admin

The economy is a scary thing these days. Alan Greenspan recently referred to America’s current financial crisis as a “once in a century credit tsunami,” and people in power have been pushing packages and programs to help ease the credit crunch.
Our government is swimming in a pile of debt, and we’re not the only ones [...]

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Fiscal cancer is slowly eating away at America’s economy

Posted on February 3rd, 2009, by admin

David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, is worried about our economic future. In fact, he believes that America is suffering from a fiscal cancer that could result in tragedy if left untreated. Ultimately, he says, the United States will barely be able to pay the interest on its mounting debt, making barely [...]

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The effects of creating money out of thin air

Posted on January 31st, 2009, by admin

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you’re well aware that the American economy is struggling, to put it mildly. American families are losing their homes in alarming numbers and the government has dug itself into a hole of debt that it may never be able to climb out of.
Thanks to our unfailing use [...]

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The slow, painful death of the dollar bill

Posted on January 28th, 2009, by admin

According to Larry Edelson, higher taxes are not going to be the largest cost of the $700-billion bailout package that was recently approved and implemented by Uncle Sam.  He believes that your biggest concern should be the “sheer destruction of the purchasing power of your money, an outright devaluation of the dollar that’s going to [...]

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