The question that keeps popping up is will the government come after my gold? The short answer is yes, the government can take your gold as long as they give you “just compensation.” I’ll go into detail on the history of gold confiscation first but make sure you don’t miss the section below that dives into what the government could …
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8
2024
Weighing a Silver Investment Versus Stocks
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: 1964, 1965, 888, balance sheet, debt, Dollar, Donald Trump, Federal Reserve, Gold, Kamala Harris, low, politics, Purchasing Power, quarter, rate cut, silver, SOMA, stock market crash, UVIX, volatility
We are starting to see some real volatility enter the market and the chances of a Fed rate cut of .50 basis points at their next meeting in September rise to 55.5%. On Monday with that mini market crash that odds were at 85.5% of a .50 rate cut. Since that Monday, what has happened? The answer might be a …
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26
2024
Is America Headed for Bankruptcy?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: backs, bankruptcy, congress, consumer, debt, Dollar, Elon Musk, Federal Reserve, full faith and credit, Gold, government, Income tax, Money, note, pre-1965 quarter, Profit In Up and Down Markets, Purchasing Power, silver, spending, Stock Market, Unemployment, Wilson
Elon Musk posted on X today in reply to a Heritage Foundation economist, saying that “America is headed for bankruptcy fyi.” The economist asked the question “How did we get here?” To which he answered the following: Two men: FDR and Richard Nixon. Together, they broke the dollar. And put the American people into debt slavery. I tweeted back to …
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13
2024
If you wanted to destroy the currency of a nation, there is no better way to do it than collectively have other nations band together and create their own monetary system and shun the dollar. That’s exactly what BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are doing. But it doesn’t stop there. Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, …
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10
2024
Will the Dollar Crash?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Federal Reserve, Gold, Government Spending, IMF, U.S. Dollar
Tags: crash, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Gold, Purchasing Power, silver
This article will dive into the question on whether the dollar will crash as so many have predicted over the years. What it will point out is what I wrote about in my book Illusions of Wealth, that all fiat currencies eventually go to zero. Why? Because governments screw them up. But for now, the dollar is still king of …
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3
2018
Will There Be Enough Physical Gold And Silver?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: congress, Federal Reserve, Howard Buffett, Human Freedom Rests on Gold Redeemable Money, insurance, metals, Purchasing Power, spending, Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett Incorrect Observations On Gold. When we finally do get the spike up in metals, will supply be an issue? The psychology of your average buyer of metals. Why it makes sense to have some insurance now in physical metals. When it comes to the gold supply, you must remember the old saying, and I think this saying has …
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16
2016
Is Gold Going To Move Higher Or Lower From Here?
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: commodities, contraction, credit, Deflation, Federal Reserve, helicopter, higher, Illusions of Wealth, Interest rates, lower, MB Advisors, Milton Berg
You’ll notice that gold and silver are a bit more volatile of late. This is what happens when you have buyers and sellers in conflict with each other. It should also precede the next move in the metals. The question remains, will that move be a bit higher or are we topping? Let’s look at each scenario and see …
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17
2015
Data is Dead; All Hail the Fed!
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: buy, Canadian Dollar, data, Dollar, economic, ETF, EURO, fed, Federal Reserve, Gold, Interest rates, mining stocks, Pound, silver, trading, YEN
What Does this Data Tell Us? Does the Market Care? All the market cares about is what a few words from the Fed meeting say tomorrow, not what the data tells us. That’s what we’ll find out tomorrow with the results of a two day Fed meeting culminating in an announcement about the future of interest rates. Traders and markets …
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11
2014
It is easy to convince people of all the problems with the U.S. economy. We do have over $17.7 Trillion of national debt and a Federal Reserve with a suspect balance sheet compared to its pre-2008 financial crisis balance sheet. We also have budget deficits for the next decade to deal with and unfunded liabilities in the 10’s of trillions. …
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16
2013
The Federal Reserve – Lender and Buyer of Last Resort
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: BOE, Buyer of Last Resort, Central Bank, Dodd, ECB, Federal Reserve, Frank, Gold, Lender of Last Resort, QE
Can the Federal Reserve save the U.S. economy from failure? Is this their mandate? When you research “lender of last resort (LLR),” which is what the Fed is supposed to be, you mostly find the source to be Walter Bagehot’s Lender of Last Resort Doctrine. This doctrine came about from Bagehot’s book, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. Hartley Withers, in …
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