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29 Mar 2016
The Advent of Powerful Personal Testing Tools
New Precious Metal Testing tools make it easy and much more affordable to reliably test for advanced bullion counterfeits.
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09 Mar 2016
The Gold to Silver Ratio Rule, Buy Low, Sell High
A simple strategy of buying gold for silver at the 45 ratio and swapping silver for gold at 80 would have resulted in a 100 ounces of gold to become 562 ounces in 30 years.
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29 Jan 2016
Why Bullion Secured Peer to Peer Lending is Safer than Bank Credit
Secured Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending, the people who designed it, and how parcelized bullion collateral is ideal to virtually eliminate the possibility of defaults and benefit both lenders and borrowers.
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21 Dec 2015
Protect your Wealth from Escheatings, Nationalizations and Confiscations
We focus on why bullion nationalization happened in the past, why we might see a repeat during a systemic crisis and, most importantly, how you can reliably protect yourself.
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08 Dec 2015
Why the Feasibility of a Sustained Fed Rate Hike is Doubtful
Despite the U.S Federal Reserve (Fed) disappointing market analysts by not increasing its benchmark interest rates at its September 2015 meeting, rate hike expectations are rife again as we go into the final week towards the last Fed meeting of the year on December 15.
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06 Nov 2015
Why it all boils down to Counterparty Risk
Large banks had become "too big to fail" because they owed too much money and governments could not afford their failure. But how expensive were these bailouts and what will happen when the next crisis requires even larger bailouts?
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06 Nov 2015
Sovereign Debt Infographic
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this infographic was money well spent as it gives a vision
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and feeling to our debt problems by stacking US (and other countries) debt into huge stacks made
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29 Sep 2015
Three Common Bullion Storage Misunderstandings
In the industry most customers are only creditors, not owners, and fabricated security and "all risk insurance" claims are often used to derail or mislead legitimate customer enquiries. We detail three of the most common storage misunderstandings and why it is important to know about them.
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28 Sep 2015
BEWARE: What If This Retail Silver Investment Shortage Doesn’t End?
Not only has the present retail silver bullion product shortage continued for several months now, what happens if it never ends? This may seem like a play on hype, but if the U.S. or World experiences another Black Swan event like the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008, physical silver demand will likely explode to levels much higher than today.
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22 Sep 2015
Silver Shortages Explained - How Physical Demand has Little Effect on Prices
Physical demand spikes when prices fall but physical demand seldom affects prices themselves as physical trades represents only a tiny proportion of the highly leveraged future exchanges where prices are set. When physical bullon demand increases and prices fall shortages occur.
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