An article by Jeff Thomas, feature writer for Strategic Wealth Preservation, Doug Casey’s International Man and 321gold.com Traditionally, inflation has been defined as “an increase in the amount of currency in circulation.” Such an increase almost always causes an increase in the cost of goods and services, since, more plentiful currency units lowers their rarity,…
Major banks are facing one of the biggest regulatory overhauls since the financial crisis, setting up a clash over the amount of capital that they must set aside to weather the tumult.
In 1260, Kublai Khan created the first unified fiat currency. The jiaochao was made from the inner layer of the bark of the mulberry tree. It’s of interest that the mulberry tree was quite common in Mongolia.
Geopolitical, economic, and environmental uncertainty can be expected to continue in the near term. Astute investors continue to seek out alternative investments for their portfolios to aid in diversifying them away from overexposure to any single asset class.
The Roman denarius pictured above features the profile of the emperor Diocletian, circa 301 AD, at the time when he issued the edict listed above.
Investors are seeking out buying opportunities from temporary price dips to add more physical precious metals into their portfolios.
By Jeff Thomas, featured writer for Strategic Wealth Preservation, Doug Casey’s International Man and 321gold.com Throughout history, there have been periods when people who were otherwise quite settled in their towns and villages pulled up stakes and headed elsewhere. During the decline of Rome, many of those who had been the net producers chose to…
Astute investors continue to seek out alternative investments for their portfolios to aid in diversifying them away from overexposure to any single asset class.
By Jeff Thomas, featured writer for Strategic Wealth Preservation, Doug Casey’s International Man and 321gold.com Since its inception, International Man has offered prognostications about what the future will bring – economically, politically, and socially. The principal writers of the publication have been at this for decades. Each one began by studying world economics and politics…
1. Federal Reserve officials are rethinking their view that wage gains are fueling inflation, a key intellectual shift that bolsters the case for a pause in their tightening campaign this week. Until recently, many top policymakers at the U.S. central bank maintained that the road to lower inflation ran through the job market. The idea…
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