What is Money?
Historically many things throughout time have been used as money. Which include beads, shells, stones, tobacco, wheat, livestock, gold, silver and currency. But what makes money? Not everything is money, some is currency.


What is Currency?
It is a unit of monetary exchange that can be used in trade for all goods and services. It is made up of the following important key elements. It acts as a circulating medium of exchange – which is an intermediary used in trade to avoid the inconvenience of a peer barter system. It’s a unit of account – which is a standard monetary unit of measurement of value and costs on all goods, services and assets…

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Central banks & governments have clearly made the choice to paper-over their debts instead of facing their fiscal problems head-on. This action will guarantee printing presses world-wide, to run non-stop. Global debt is already at $1.5 quadrillion dollars. Gold and silver are poised to shoot to the moon.

Globally, politicians and central bankers are taking the path of least resistance, choosing to paper-over national debts thus assuring the creation of a world-wide debt bubble of biblical proportions. The world is simply drowning in its own debt. Spain’s bond rates went back above 7.5 percent. Currently global debt totals about $150 trillion, however once you add the dependencies from governments such as various liabilities, both funded and unfunded along with pension funds you can crank this figure upwards to $500 trillion.

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Over the past five years gold has succeeded to outperform the S&P by a long shot. The biggest reason for S&P's decline in value, measured by it's worth in currency or dollars is because the green back itself is not real money.

It's important to note, smart people have been collecting gold. Regardless if these people have collected gold for the long-term or are just now starting. These investors all have the same philosophy. Hang on to your gold, keep collecting it and do not sell an ounce. Because at some point gold's value will exceed rising inflation and save you. What the government has done of course in its attempts to shore up falling home prices within American is actually destroying the dollar and increasing gold's value…

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All of the gold held by central banks throughout the west, originally, was owned by the people. Slowly this gold has been siphoned away from the people by the central bankers through inflation. However now, even these giant banks in the west are losing their gold as it slowly is being transferred to the east.

The gold stored in these central banks was at one time used to back all western currencies. However the sole purpose for gold being held in western banks today is for repayment of debt. History shows us that approximately every 30 to 40 years the world creates a new monetary system. Previous monetary systems continually have failed due to poor fiscal policy, planning and manipulations. Before WWI most countries kept a specific amount of gold in their treasuries. The treasuries would then issue out currency notes into circulation in amounts that equaled the equivalent value of…

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