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Wondering how much you should have saved up by the time you reach 25 or 30? There’s no single clearinghouse for the answer to this question, especially as so many people in this age group have no savings at all—only student loan debt, car loans, and a mortgage. But if you are free and clearRead more

Wondering how long it will take for a bank transfer to go through, or to receive an ACH direct deposit from an employer or other party? Due to the number of intermediaries involved in transferring money from one financial institution to another, it may take several days for the money to arrive in your bankRead more

You may have heard something in the past about the Austrian school of economics, or simply the “Austrian school.” What is this school of economic thought—and why does it relate so closely with gold ownership? According to the Mises Institute, Austrian economics can be defined in the following way: Austrian economists use logical, deductive reasoningRead more

Gold has some of the most unusual physical properties of any element on our planet. And it also happens to be one of the rarest naturally occurring metals on Earth. Is gold unusually durable? Yes, as webelements.com article points out: Gold is both malleable and ductile. Gold is a heavy metal (density 19.3 g cm-3)Read more

                          Throughout recorded history, human societies have gravitated toward Gold and Silver as forms of money due to their persistent global rarity as elements, durability, and desirable physical properties. Silver has many uses. From Jlab: Silver and silver compounds have many uses. PureRead more

Thursday, June 23rd is the day voters in Great Britain will decide whether their country will leave the European Union, an outcome dubbed “Brexit”. The debate leading up to the vote is becoming fierce, and long simmering disagreements within the Conservative Party to “Leave” or “Remain” in the EU are now boiling over. Prime MinisterRead more

Jim Rickards television interview: Is the Federal Reserve Broke? A number of pundits and economic thinkers have pondered whether the U.S. Federal Reserve System is “broke,” or at the very least, not fully revealing all of its liabilities. Then beyond that, there are troubling recent news stories that the Federal Reserve may have been hackedRead more

Here’s a question that might have you pondering: Is gold a commodity? More importantly, are we doing a disservice to the gold industry by calling gold a commodity? These may sound like silly questions, but hear me out. Last month I participated as a keynote speaker at the Asia Mining Conference in Singapore. There wereRead more

No one can predict the future, but charts can provide a useful roadmap to help guide us through uncertainty. Charts do this because they illustrate price trends – whether up, down or sideways – and it is always important to keep your investment portfolio in harmony with the trend. The following weekly chart of Bitcoin’sRead more

Yesterday’s speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen roiled markets across the globe. Any increase in US dollar interest rates has been postponed yet again. As a consequence, it is not surprising that the dollar tanked, and gold jumped higher in a spell of <frenetic short-covering>. While Fed officials often speak in a nuanced way,Read more