    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | tfmetalsreport.com / By TF / Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 3:59 pm I’ve been thinking since yesterday about what I should write today. My first idea was to overwhelm you with information. Charts, data, links…the usual stuff, only more so. Then it dawned on me…that’s probably not what you want to hear right now. [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / April 3, 2013 Developing World: Euro Loses Attraction as Reserve Currency … Countries in the developing world are drastically reducing their euro holdings as economic instability in Europe leads them elsewhere to stock their currency reserves. Euro holdings are at their lowest level in a decade, according to [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / April 1, 2013 Thanks, World Reserve Currency, But No Thanks: Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility … A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia’s unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports [...] dollarcollapse.com / By John Rubino / March 29, 2013 Most of the recent “currency war” talk refers to countries trying to lower the value of their currencies to gain a trade advantage and/or make their debts more manageable. But this war has another theater, where a weaker currency is not the main [...] dailyresourcehunter.com / By Byron King / Mar 20th, 2013 [BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION] Today we’re at the end of another major era. Let’s call it the “Columbian” era — as in the Christopher Columbus era, where white European people can sail across the world and go places, do things and impose their will whether they’re Spanish, [...] sovereignman.com / by TIM STAERMOSE / March 4, 2013 It’s easy to see why people like Costa Rica so much. The country is gorgeous, and the climate can be excellent. There are plenty of cooling breezes to keep it comfortable year-round, despite the tropical location. And during the dry season, the country is bathed [...] blog.milesfranklin.com / By Miles Franklin, Ltd / February 27th, 2013 A little bit of simple logic here. In what world could the issuer of the reserve currency borrow more than double the amount of gold reserves they purport (we know they are lying) to have? In what world could this same “issuer” issue double [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / February 13, 2013 Too Big to Succeed … On December 20, 1994 Mexico’s newly installed president Ernesto Zedillo devalued the currency, the peso, by 15%. As a candidate he had said he would “defend the peso like a dog.” That day the peso went from 3.47, where [...] mineweb.com / By Lawrence Williams / February 11, 2013 According to a Bloomberg report, Russia has been the largest buyer of gold over the past decade, although this assumes that China has not been buying gold for official reserves since it last reported an increase now four years ago – a position [...] silvervigilante.com / By SV / February 10, 2013 The Russian central bank has added 570 metric tons of gold in the past decade, a quarter more than second place China, according to IMF data. “The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the [...] jsmineset.com / By Jim Sinclair / January 22, 2013, at 4:33 pm My Dear Extended Family, Hyperinflation in the US dollar is considered impossible by some. Some of this opinion is motivated by the concepts and implications of the reserve currency facing such a challenge. Others deny that historical experiences of hyperinflation has causes, which [...] zentrader.ca / By Poly / January 20, 2013 One thing is certain, the Dollar is not being sold off aggressively as many have expected. Four rounds of massive quantitative easing and zero interest rates have done little to dampen the appetite for what firmly remains the world’s reserve currency. The Dollar has been putting in [...] forbes.com / By Nathan Lewis / January 18, 2013 Robert Triffin One of the strangest things about “Triffin’s Dilemma” is not that Robert Triffin said something in the mid-1960s, but rather that people still take this stuff seriously a half-century later. It’s basically nonsense. But, it seems that, in fifty years, nobody has appeared [...] mineweb.com / By Dorothy Kosich / Tuesday , 15 Jan 2013 A report by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) suggests that demand for gold will increase as central banks of emerging market economies become increasingly interested in gold in the transition from one global reserve currency system to a greater [...] kingworldnews.com / January 9, 2013 Today 40-year veteran, Robert Fitzwilson, wrote the following piece exclusively for King World News. Fitzwilson, who is founder of The Portola Group, has an absolutely fascinating and incredibly important 45-year chart, which is a spectacular illustration of why gold and silver are in bull markets. Fitzwilson also [...] dailyreckoning.com / By Joel Bowman / December 18, 2012 As the chart below displays, the Federal Reserve has, since 1913, destroyed roughly 97% of the dollar’s value. And that, despite (or perhaps because of) a mandate to maintain the same currency’s integrity and stability. That’s more than just inconvenient, given the dollar’s [...] charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / Wednesday, December 12, 2012 As surpluses dwindle, borrowing money becomes the only way to prop up the Status Quo. Too bad that path inevitably leads to insolvency. Consider the consequences of the efficient subsidizing the inefficient. As long as the surplus generated by the efficient is larger than [...] blog.milesfranklin.com / By Bill Holter / December 10th, 2012 Do you remember all the talk back in 2009 and early 2010 about the Fed’s “exit plan?” How the economy was recovering and the Fed would need to tighten and reduce their balance sheet? Did you laugh when you first heard the words “exit plan” [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 12/10/2012 11:12 -0500 Excessive monetary stimulus and low interest rates create financial bubbles. Seymour Pierce’s Thunder Road report notes that: Central banks are creating the ultimate bubble in money itself, as they fight the downward leg in this Long Wave cycle. This is the biggest debt [...] financialsurvivalnetwork.com / December 4th, 2012 Download: Gordon_Long_12-4-2012.mp3 // Gordon T. Long is an Austrian Economist who is greatly alarmed at the impending demise of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. He quotes Ludwig von Mises extensively when discussing sound money. Mises believed that sound money was one of the pillars of [...] sibileau.com / By Martin Sibileau / December 2, 2012 “…Just like since the beginning of the 17th century almost every serious intellectual advance had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine, I fear that in the 21st century, we too will have to begin attacking anything supporting the belief that [...] news.goldseek.com / By Vin Maru / Wednesday, 28 November 2012 Lately we have seen many articles about China and many other central banks continuing to buy and increase their holdings of gold as part of their effort to continue diversifying out of foreign paper currencies. Who can blame them? Would you want to hold [...] theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael / November 27th, 2012 By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar. The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in [...] financialsense.com / By John Butler / November 27, 2012 Is reserve currency status an economic blessing or a curse? The answer might seem obvious, as reserve currencies have been shown to confer lower borrowing costs on their issuers. But what of the borrower who, enticed by low interest rates, borrows more than they can [...] peakprosperity.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 10:03 AM Understanding the impact of Triffin’s Paradox Whenever I make the case for a stronger U.S. dollar (USD), the feedback can be sorted into three basic reasons why the dollar will continue declining in value: The USD may gain relative to other [...] globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / By Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Monday, November 05, 2012 12:30 AM Once again we are seeing articles and research papers stating the Chinese renminbi (yuan) is about to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency. Here is a working paper by Arvind Subramanian and Martin Kessler at the Peterson [...] bullionbullscanada.com / By Jeff Nielson / Saturday, 03 November 2012 13:40 It is no secret that China is replacing the U.S. dollar with its own currency in more and more of its bilateral trading. It’s apparent to all that the renminbi will soon have (at least) a co-equal status with the [...] |
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