Inflation Fears: Shades of 1974?
Echoes of 1974
Each year brings investors a fresh list of hopes and fears. Often, mainstream financial firms provide guidance that extrapolates linear thinking into the future. We prefer to take a more cyclical view of the world to glean knowledge from patterns in past cycles that rhyme with today. With that in mind, we set our sights […]
A History of Gold
Almost no debate, short of religion and politics, will solicit as strong of views as the topic of gold.
Scenarios for Owning Gold
Gold serves a unique role in investment portfolios, not only as insurance against extreme events, but as a timeless store of value in a world of multiplying paper currency.
Investment Themes Your Wealth Manager Isn’t Telling You About: Cryptocurrencies
astute investors should take time to understand the technology that computer geeks are enthusiastic about. Today, that is Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
The Long and Short of It
Combined with an extremely uncertain and potentially deteriorating economic situation, current equity valuations suggest this stock market is one of the most overvalued – and therefore potentially dangerous – in history.
Why Economics Should Guide Investment Allocations
Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute, interviews Christopher Casey.
Bitcoin is Only the Beginning: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
A bitcoin investment of $10,000 in early 2013 would be worth nearly $2 million today. Why have cryptocurrencies risen so much in value? It is because they represent more than an evolution in money, for their underlying blockchain technology is a force as potentially powerful and disruptive as the Internet. The Financial Repression Authority interviewed […]
20 Minutes with Doug Casey
Few investment experts have the unique background, opinions, and uncanny timing possessed by Doug Casey.
End the Fed: an Interview with Dr. Ron Paul
Most mainstream financial pundits view the Federal Reserve as a bastion of economic wisdom and a stalwart protector against inflation, recessions, and economic turmoil. Dr. Paul disagrees.