New Currency The Barackazillion – The Only Currency You’ll Ever Need

Introducing; the Barackazillion – The Only Currency You Will Ever Need – go to http://barackazillion.com/ and watch the video. “Money We Can Believe In” “As Good As Gold” For those who lean left, I would have done the same thing for Bush had I thought of it then – I am neither left nor right in my political views. I will do the same thing for the next...

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Increase In Bank Sub-investment Grade Derivatives Reveal A Need For Gold Insurance

The financial crisis started with banks getting burned in the derivatives market. Then TARP was manipulated to help banks get cash. Next came the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) allowing banks to mark to model (fantasy) their real estate assets (cheat). And now we have come full circle once again as banks own more sub-investment grade derivatives today than at the height of the 2008...

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Does Real Estate Or Gold Have A Bright Future?

  Every once in awhile, I keep tabs on what’s going on with real estate. I have friends and clients who will ask me my thoughts and I try to analyze what’s going on in real estate with a non-biased approach, say as opposed to your typical real estate agent. I approach gold and silver the same way, sometimes giving reasons why short term, the price may fall. There are many more...

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Failed European Bank Stress Tests Offer Even More Reasons To Own Physical Gold and Silver

One by one, country by country, the Eurozone’s PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are succumbing to the excesses of the credit expansion era that saw out of control government spending and banks lending to businesses and consumers who now can’t pay the loans back. At the same time, the traditional way banks make profit has also disappeared as banks are not doing much...

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Why Gold Is a Better Currency Indicator Than the U.S. Dollar Index

NOTE: This is an exclusive article I wrote for Seeking Alpha, a financial website. The rest of the article, which I feel is one of my best articles, can be found at the link below. When commentators on CNBC and elsewhere talk about the U.S. dollar being weak or strong, they reference the U.S. Dollar Index being up or down as their source. But most people I have found don’t really understand...

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