Is Russia currently on the gold standard? Despite a lot of speculation to the contrary, the answer is no. In early 2022, in an attempt to defend the value of the rouble, the Russian Central Bank said that it would buy gold at 5000 roubles per gram. However all this meant was that the bank […]
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The classical gold standard was the monetary system of the 1870s to 1914. It is one of several different types of gold standard but is what is most commonly associated with the phrase. The world’s industrial powers defined their national currencies as a fixed weight of gold and paper money was freely convertible into gold
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Key Takeaways The history of gold goes back almost 6000 years to the earliest years of some of humanity’s most ancient civilizations. While not formally part of the money system today, central banks still hold gold, giving it a proximate shadow status in the current system. Of all the elements of the periodic table, gold
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Gold is important to the economy and the monetary system because its existence on central bank balance sheets gives fiat currency the credibility that it has. Governments and central banks like to pretend that gold is unimportant and is a relic of the past. This is wrong. While we no longer operate on any type
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Key Takeaways The story of the Weimar hyperinflation is a familiar one. But do you know what the rentenmark was and how it worked? It should be one of the most famous stories in the history of fiat currency. But sadly, barely anyone properly understands it. Read this article and you will have a better
A crypto bear market is brutal and surviving one is not easy. According to Glassnode, they last anywhere between 227 and 435 days with bitcoin drawdowns of between 75% and 84%. In bear markets altcoins tend to fall even more, often up to 95%. In all other markets, a bear market is normally defined as
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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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