After two decades of socialism and two years of hyperinflation, the Venezuelan economy is in a shambles. The Venezuelan national currency is so worthless that the government doesn’t even have enough money to pay the printers who print its money. And since oil production has plummeted through years of socialist mismanagement, oil revenues have declined […]
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With the prospect of sound fiscal policies at the federal level becoming increasingly unlikely, state-level proposals in the United States are where fiscally-minded conservatives are beginning to focus more and more of their efforts. Increasingly those efforts are taking the form of pushing state government to secure their assets by investing in gold and silver. […]
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The fear of theft and hacking remains one of the issues keeping many people from trying to invest in cryptocurrencies. And recent research indicates that those people have every reason to remain fearful. Lat year an estimated $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies were stolen from their owners, mostly from cryptocurrency exchanges. Total market capitalization of […]
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Last week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting made it clear that the Federal Reserve has caved to pressure to bring its gradual tightening of monetary policy to an early and unplanned halt. Between pressure from President Trump and pressure from markets who want to see the stock market bull run continue for several more […]
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With Alzheimer’s disease becoming more and more prevalent in society, more and more research is going into discovering why it occurs, how it develops, and what can prevent it. Unfortunately we’re still a long ways away from figuring out everything there is to know about why Alzheimer’s occurs, which obviously makes it difficult to figure […]
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The political establishment in Virginia was rocked late last week by the publication of old photos allegedly showing Governor Ralph Northam in blackface. Given the current sensitivity over the subject of blackface there were immediate calls for Northam, a Democrat, to resign. But from there the story just continued to get weirder and weirder. That […]
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Hopefully you’re one of those people who understand that in the event of a natural disaster or SHTF scenario you’re going to be responsible for your own food, housing, and safety. If you’ve taken the steps to stockpile food, water, and other vital necessities you may think that you’ve done everything you need to. But […]
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Gold’s ability to act as a safe haven asset is unparalleled. Experienced investors have known about that for centuries, which is why gold has always performed so well during times of economic crisis. During the 2007-2009 stock market crash stock markets lost over 50% of their value, while gold gained 25% and continued to rise. […]
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Did you know that the Chinese government runs a space observation station in rural Argentina? Probably not, not many people do. It supposedly was instrumental in helping the Chinese land a probe on the dark side of the moon. But its very existence, and the fact that the Argentine government has virtually no oversight over […]
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To many in the cryptocurrency world the announcements surrounding the Venezuelan government’s petro cryptocurrency token were almost taken as a joke. With few details ever published about the cryptocurrency’s basis, how it would work, or how sales would be made, no one expected the petro to ever get off the ground. That didn’t dissuade the […]
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