You need a cold storage wallet once you have enough cryptocurrency to make the expense worth it. Cold storage wallets are often several hundred dollars and you will incur a transaction fee when you move coins from the exchange to the cold wallet. Therefore, if you are holding a small amount of crypto, a cold […]
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There are times in history where the government reluctantly accepts that state money has failed and the market’s money has proven superior. One such example was in the Ming Dynasty and silver. The government had initially banned silver and decreed that the citizens should use devaluing paper currency. Unfortunately for the authorities, the citizens continued
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Sir John Templeton is one of the world’s most successful investors. Although sadly he is not as well known as others such as Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. What John Templeton is most well known for was his September 1939 investment play where he took big positions on undervalued companies just as World War Two
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I first became a gold investor because I learned the history of it. I learned about the thousands of years gold has been money. I learned about the classical gold standard, Bretton Woods, how Nixon’s closed the gold window 1971 and how the U.S. still holds 8000 tonnes of gold. I came to understand that
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There is a lot to learn from the inflation in Rome that ravaged the empire towards the end. It is a cautionary tale and one that we can draw many insights from. It’s quite natural that we might look at the story of the inflation in Rome and draw comparisons to our American dominated world
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The economic disadvantages of fiat currency are well known and well discussed amongst financial commentators who understand the problems in our monetary system. These include: What is not discussed quite so widely is the social harm caused by fiat currency. The steady debasement of our currency is a transfer of wealth from savers and wage
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Benjamin Graham’s value investing principles are timeless. Known as the “father of value investing” Benjamin Graham revolutionised the investing landscape with his simple yet ground breaking ideas such as the margin of safety and Mr. Market. His book The Intelligent Investor is a classic that is still a must read for any value investor today.
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Hard asset stocks are a convenient way to get exposure to the underlying asset and can be either defensive or a great speculation. What you are looking for are equities that own a lot of tangible assets and whose valuation is primarily composed of that hard asset exposure. This is significantly different from something like
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Key Takeaways A financial crisis caused the French Revolution when the debt laden state, in political gridlock, abandoned sound money for one of the world’s most destructive paper money experiments. This act triggered a chain of events that unleashed revolutionary forces that led to the downfall of the monarchy and a complete restructuring of French
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In 1992, hyperinflation in Russia peaked at 2,318%. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the successor state of Russia was in an economic shambles. In 1985 the Soviet Union had been a global superpower, second only to the United States. Since 1917 she had embarked on a unique path, with a command economy based
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