I think Iran is more the exception than the rule when it comes to trade, but yes, this qualifies.
Even a lot of homeowners who are underwater are not in bad shape as long as they can make the payments. The house payment may be as high as a...
I don't disagree. If you go back several decades, almost every investment advisor recommended a 5% to 10% allocation to precious metals. One can...
It is serious, not devastating. But as you indicate above, a lot of that 25% has already been recovered.
When is the last time gold was used to settle a trade balance?
Well, a lot of people bought houses in the middle of the past decade who never should have, and couldn't have even qualified until about 2005. So...
It's a pledge and seems to work as far as it goes. Obviously petitions can't make law.
But to be fair, the stock market has largely recovered, bond are probably a bit higher in price, and most of the drop is in residential real...
I agree that the current situation is not unprecedented. But the debt will not be paid off. I also don't think there would be hyperinflation...
I think the new "rule" is that the White House will respond to any petition with more than 100k signatures. But the answer could be no, or...
Has there ever been a petition about anything that ever resulted in action by the Federal Government?
While this is true, I would estimate that the dollar is still losing about 5% annually from my personal observations about what things cost around...
If we are entering an unprecedented era of financial chaos, I'd rather do it without debt.
I think the silver bull market is still in place inspite of the drop from the all-time high. I base this on the long term chart and lack of...
If this is for investment, you're complicating things. When you go to sell the bars, you may have to take a pretty large haircut from spot...
I've never been comfortable with the idea that debt is good - under almost any circumstances. It is sometimes necessary to buy houses and cars...
The path of least resistance is UP!
I would add a corollary: Don't believe you are diversified because you own several metals. I saw many people in the 1990s who believed they were...
I think it's a safer bet to conclude that people with tremendous power will continue to act to maintain that power than to trust Rickards call...
I read this occasionally about China, but China has a very authoritarian government that isn't likely to unleash the type of economic freedom that...
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