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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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It is highly anticipated that China will become the world’s largest net buyer of gold this year surpassing that of India, who has been the largest gold consumer until now. China’s gold purchases for 2012 have already risen ten percent according to ICBC a leading Chinese bank. Why are they so eager to buy?

China has held the world's largest amount of US debt, larger than any other nation. However things are drastically changing. China has changed its investment strategies, including moving out of a majority stake in dollar dominated assets and converting those assets into gold. It clearly doesn't take a financial genius to figure out the logic behind China's dollar exit strategy.

While the American dollar may still be king over an uncertain euro today, what will happen once the US is reminded that its debts levels in comparison exceed that of Greece? While still the largest owner of foreign dollar reserves China is clearly conscious about how over exposed their holding are, putting their nations reserves into a slump. Currently US Treasuries are inside the largest market bubble in history.

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The latest analysis involving of central bank reserve managers shows a major modification within their “official” reserve holdings. It appears this major modification extends well into the next decade. The change is a deliberate increase of gold accumulation within the holdings of central banks.

Currently were already seeing central banks acquiring larger amounts of gold bullion. Gold bullion reserves that were reported have surpassed 439.7 tons last year. This is seen as the largest annual increase in nearly 50 years, which does not include any major un-reported purchases during this time. It is well-known that many central banks have snapped up tonnage when market prices are at near bottoms on market corrections...

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Every day that passes were seeing nothing but lies coming from the central banks. Three years running, we have been seeing interest rates close to zero; in a bid to pump up and force the life back into a dying economy. With the exception of Japan’s failure, to drop interest rates at near zero for over two decades, no other country in recent times has attempted such an uncontrolled careless monetary policy.

Throughout economic history zero percent interest rates have never been used, for an especially good reason. To use a zero interest rate policy upon a nation should be a condition of last resort, a last-ditch effort to shock an economy back to life. Any interest rate that is below inflation is never good for an economy. This rate policy actually rips-off savers. In a society that has been accustom to saving, savers do not get any real returns on their accounts. By leaving rates on savings ultra low, it's tantamount to "savings account rape"…

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The current monetary system that’s in place is corruptly managed by the greed, power and deception of the world banks and those who run them. Weekly news comes out of illegal bank practices and fraud, its mainstream news anymore. A quick example would be the latest scandal involving LIBOR. It is apparent today that the more reliable an institution is, the bigger the fraud. Libor was the benchmark for loans into the trillions of dollars, for decades.

Libor’s assets are believed to have been connected to transactions globally in the forms of personal, small business and mortgage loans in excess of $500 trillion dollars. Libor was key in the setting of global interest rates. To date the Libor scandal could be the biggest of its kind in history...

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There has been a huge cover-up in the price of gold. This price suppression has been going on for years. Central banks have been at the center of this manipulation and the evidence can be found in the commodities and future trading commission reports. Mr. Theodore Butler with due diligence is the main person responsible for following the long chain of events that finally led to the discovery of these price manipulations and cover-ups by central bankers for years.

Legal Practice of Leasing Out Precious Metals

Before the central banks entered into this leasing game, the leasing or swapping of precious metals from one mine to another was used when production for whatever reason was stopped. Because mines sell future contracts during production, during a shutdown they would be on the hook for…

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Currently every country in Europe with little exception is burning. Don’t be mistaken, the United States is not far off from this internal flame either. It is going to take some type of large scale Central Banking coordinated event to trigger the large scale money-printing that will ultimately need to happen.

Money printing from the world’s central banks will all need to come together as one, to prevent the major economies of the world from imploding. Events such as high unemployment world-wide could be a trigger to set off the printing presses…

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The world is currently in the middle of this century’s biggest bull market to date. Unlike the last great bull market for gold and silver in the 1970’s, this time, investors from the four corners of the world will have a chance to take part in the investment opportunity of a lifetime.

During the last great gold rush in the late 1970’s, only investors from the United States and the better part of Western Europe were able to participate. That was because back then, most other nations did not allow physical ownership of gold as it was either illegal to own, not available for investment or not in public demand. Many of the world’s countries including Russia, Eastern Europe, China and India, as well as all other Asian nations, South America and Mexico were incapable of …

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Would the world be a better place if it were able to share the same currency? Would it benefit the masses? Honestly, that answer has to be no. The chances of the entire world using the same currency will never have a chance to exist, let’s understand why.

The utmost important factor in argument against sharing a world-wide common monetary unit regardless what that monetary unit might be called, hinges upon one common and certain fact. The loss of each country’s ability to wage war. To begin, all countries would have to be losing their economies at the same time. And from this point forward if a common currency were put into place, each country would lose the ability to create war upon another nation…

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Inflation is a serious problem that will affect any society overtime. Serious monetary stresses are created that will affect the most basic of needs such as food for your family to eat, fuel for your car or medicine to keep you alive. Inflation makes the prices you pay increase on the exact same products or services you were buying or using before. Most people will realize these price increases as they reflect on what these items had cost them only 1-2 years ago. Why?
Inflation is created by directly increasing the money supply in an economy. When this happens it creates a watering down affect on the money supply. If you take newly created dollars and add them to the economies money supply, along with all the other dollars that were already there, we get the total money supply…


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At the end of WWI Weimar Germany was suffering from rising inflation, which was starting to get out of control. During a two year period from 1921 through 1923 Inflation was running away. During the time, nearing the end of 1923 Weimar Germany would forever be remembered as a place where one of the greatest hyperinflationary events in history took place. When hyperinflation finally took hold of Germany during this time, its devastating grasp wiped out the entire Weimar Society.

These are times where iconic photos taken of the time can be seen in history books. Photos such as a man using his German marks as “wall paper” or of people trying to buy a single loaf of bread while pushing a wheel barrel full of cash around just to pay for it. Another iconic photo of a woman burning her German marks in a woodstove just to keep the bitter cold away. At that time the money was worthless, burning money was cheaper than burning wood to use as fuel for heat. The hyperinflation was so terrible that on November 1st in 1923 at the height of the crisis 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion German marks while a glass of beer cost 4 billion and a pound of meat cost an incredible 36 billion marks.

As the Weimar example shows their devastation and suffering, this could become an economic event to reach America soon enough. Can the United States actually fall into a Weimar Style Hyperinflation?

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In the earliest of times trading and bartering were used in the exchange of goods and services. The trading of such items as herd animals, sea shells, salt, tobacco, gold, gemstones and other similar items were commonly used by man before actual currency was invented.

Currency – The Beginning

The first currency ever used, was in coin form and dates back to 600 B.C. by then King Croesus of Lydia in Asia Minor. At that time Lydia was located in what is now present day Turkey. These coins were minted from a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver called electrum. And each coin had a specific weight of 4.7 grams. These coins functioned as a medium of exchange, unit of payment and were capable of preserving value...

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The economic conditions in Europe are becoming worse as the weeks move on. In all, there’s at least a fifty percent stake involving US banks that are exposed to some degree with European debt problems within the Euro-zone. Furthermore, it is the US dollar that still remains the world’s reserve currency. And the Federal Reserve, whose status remains none other than the “lender of last resort” thus, making it very hazardous for the US taxpayers.

The huge US Government bailout program from 2008 only helped the large banks, auto industry and giant institutions such as AIG and several foreign central banks from going under. Because they were all deemed “to big to fail” at the end of the day however, nothing was solved and the bailouts amounted to nothing. These mega banks and companies only lined their own greedy corporate pockets and left the American taxpayers holding the bag...

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The Federal Reserve Act became law on December 23, 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson after the law was voted in by Congress. There were 12 central banks set up by the Federal Reserve situated across America. These banks formed a nationwide system used to enable assistance in the event crises were to develop in the future, within the American financial system.

During the Great Depression the single largest mistake made in recovery efforts was calling in substantial amounts of the currency by the Federal Reserve. The backlash from lack of available funds caused massive business shutdowns which resulted in massive unemployment across America...

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The 2007 financial disaster has adversely changed the lives of countless numbers of Americans. Many asking the question, who is to blame for creating this crisis?

A recent study make known by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) places the blame on government and the banks as the two main criminal’s envolved in the stock market crash and resulting financial chaos. The report shows that the deregulation and self-regulation by the banks are major factors. The report continues saying banks not only overlooked warnings they also failed to properly manage and put into question the risks that their faulty mortgages were giving out...

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