The dramatic rise in Bitcoin is the best reminder for all those buying and holding physical gold and silver, for whatever length of time and at whatever price, better days are assured. It is just a matter of time.

It's that time of the year again where we examine how gold and silver have performed against 75 fiat currencies around the globe.

Paper money was first used by the Chinese during the Tang Dynasty in 806 AD–500 years before Europe began printing money in the 17th century. It would be another 100 years before America started circulating a national paper currency.... How familiar are you with banknotes from around the world?

Hundreds of articles are posted every week but their content is almost never challeged. Campbell does just that. He conveys his comments, concerns and criticisms in a concise conversation, concluding his critiques with either his concurrence or contrary point of view. He invariably ends each critique with a question or two for you to mull over until his next insightful and thought-provoking commentaries. Put your thinking cap on and give them a read. Words: 1722

This time is far worse than any other modern recession. What we are seeing now is a depression, despite what the NBER would have you believe. If you are still looking for the “Big One” to happen, you are too late. It happened here and it is still happening here and in Europe. They, like us, have tried to paper over most of the effects of the boom-bust business cycle malinvestment, and they have failed and the piper is at their door [as it is here in the U.S.]. The current economic “good news”, this supposed "recovery", is largely based on fiat money steroids and will not last without continuous injections of new fiat money into the economy. [Let me explain.] Words: 2300

Considering the fact that you can fool some of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, is it any wonder millions are protesting the abysmal scourge that fiat currency has brought upon us as a result of that fateful day back on July 25th, 1965. To appreciate the significance of that historic day we must fully understand what fiat currency is and why such a concept is about to implode and this article does just that. Words: 1372

Earlier today Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made the surprising announcement of the return to the gold standard saying, “The safest way for the economy to proceed is through a new system that holds more accountability for the U.S. dollar and its value in the global markets.”

The world’s best kept investment secret is GOLD: Gold has gone up 7.5X this century; Gold's compound annual return since 2000 is 9.2% compared to a 7.7% (incl. reinvested dividends) for the Dow Jones so why are only 0.6% of global financial assets in gold? The simple answer is that most investors don’t understand gold because governments suppress the virtues of gold.

Many analysts are projecting that gold will be going at least as high as $3,000/ozt over the next few years. One analyst even claimed that gold will spike at $87,500/ozt.! Below is an updated list of their names and forecasts.

Gold investors are becoming ‘roadkill’ as our current economic structure completes its metamorphosis from a capitalist system within a democratic government into an ‘idiotocracy’.