The US dollar being the world’s reserve currency where other central banks have taken comfort for decades, now is fundamentally broke. The world’s reserve currency is now broke because of the accumulated American debt that can no longer be controlled.

These days the politicians elected into government and tasked with responsible policy making, don't have the political will do right thing. They refuse to turn things around, to stop the slow train wreck that's approaching. Some believe this slow train wreck will arrive sometime around 2015. This train has been built upon the tracks of circumstance, with decisions that were created re-actively, thus now it's running out of control…

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How much longer is it going to take before the debt factor inside the euro crisis has reached its limit? Is this whole house of cards about to burn down? Will it be the Germans who ultimately have to pay for the fiscal mistakes that other euro nations made before the fires begin?

The Spanish bonds most surely will hit levels that could exceed seven percent very soon. Greece could possibly still keep the euro, knowing all well that austerity measures will not be able to last into the foreseeable future. Cyprus keeps getting dragged down under enormous amounts of debt now equal to that of Iceland, which is another foreseen hot spot…

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Has anyone ever wondered how come the United States keeps such a firm hold on its gold bullion? Why is it that America keeps its citizens in the dark regarding the benefits of accumulating gold and silver? Yet the US government is in the business of minting and distributing silver and gold coins. Did you know China publically educates its populace as to the long-term benefits of owning these precious metals?

After France wanted all of its debts redeemed in gold, President Nixon was forced to close the gold window to the world back in 1971. Effectively stopping any further gold redemptions on American debt from abroad and ending the Bretton Woods Agreement. Currently America holds about 8,133 tons of gold bullion. That is around 2.4 times more gold…

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The majority of the world is in dire financial straits; economies cannot get a grip on their expanding debt and are using deficit spending to no end. The entire system is un-sustainable and economies are going to collapse. At this point in time surely before the end of this decade if not sooner, the greatest wealth transfer in history will take place. That also means the greatest time for opportunity, is to react now.

Obtaining physical gold and silver and keeping it outside of the banking systems, becomes the greatest form of wealth protection for your assets. Assuring you against either a deflationary collapse or hyperinflationary destruction of paper currency. These precious metals are absolutely vital to your financial survival. Below are several facts necessary to understand first, so you will know why precious metals are still very much undervalued…

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Defining inflation is the slow and on-going price increase of commodities, goods and services observed over a long period of time that reflects rising annual costs for manufactures and consumers. Inflation can be created using two different scenarios. On one hand we can use the quality theory of inflation to determine how inflation is created. On the other hand we can use the quantity theory of inflation to explain it.

To explain the quality theory of inflation we see it as founded upon the belief that a currency being used is acceptable and capable of being traded for goods and services, but also is beneficial to the buyer. However explaining how the quantity theory of inflation works is associated to the aspect of currency. This theory actually takes into account the currency’s supply and demand aspects as well as its nominal value of exchange.

Inflation will create many effects upon an economy both good and bad…

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It’s all over the news these days the American Debt Crisis. Will the Democrats, Republicans & Obama ever agree to raise the debt ceiling in time before the US goes into default on paying its own debt? What will happen?

Currently many Americans now have to actually use their credit cards just to buy food for their families and fuel for their cars. Their incomes are not enough anymore to cover these most basic monthly expenses due to ever growing costs through inflation. America’s Debt to GDP ratio is now over 100% with an official $15.3 trillion overall national debt. However in truth you’re not really seeing the bigger picture. ...

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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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Of all the various indexes out there the one were looking at here is referred to as the "Misery" index. Yes this is its actual name. The sum of the unemployment rate plus the rate of consumer price inflation equals the misery index. This index is now close to its all-time high. There are several major factors that are affecting its increase.

First off the ECB steadily giving into monetizing the majority of Europe’s debt. Next, The Bank of England recently passed a measure to monetize an additional 75 billion British pounds. They expect this will help ease their problems and of course will only make matters worse. The newest, we have comments coming from Helicopter Ben’s own minions Fed Governor Dan Tarullo that recently gave this statement. “I believe we should move back up toward the top of the list of options the large scale purchase of additional MBS” (Mortgage Backed Securities)...

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A sound monetary system is one in which a currency is backed by gold, at least a percentage or fixed weight of gold. This is different from the monetary system currently used in the United States and many other countries. Today, all national currencies are fiat currencies. Fiat currency is currency that has value only because of government regulation or law of which carries no intrinsic value of any kind.

At the time of the Great Depression, numerous countries went away from the gold standard since they had to pump money into their economies to stimulate growth. Having a gold standard would not allow them adequate economic flexibility. It is also true that there can actually be too much economic flexibility...

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A lot of people put the blame in several directions while looking for answers in our latest financial crisis. For the most part all evidence has been focused towards the Federal Reserve. Accused of creating this crisis by severe lack of oversight.
The Fed jumped on the bandwagon with their own list of people who created this George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC, and John Paulson of Paulson & Co. trying to take the attention away from themselves. Back in 2007 Paulson & Co. bet against sub primes and cashed in on 15 Billon in profits when the crash hit. Paulson commented that greater oversight should have been done on the home loans, which very well could have avoided the crisis.

However at the time sub primes were in their heyday the Federal Reserve decided to take a hands off approach. Meanwhile Soros blamed the Federal Reserve saying they should have stepped in and saved Lehman Brothers in 2008 from their collapse. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) had interviews both Soros & Paulson during their investigations for making their official report...

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