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Lesser of two evils

by Henry Becker 03.06.2011
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In my last post I outlined how printing money causes inflation. The other problem, and it is a big one, is that for every new dollar created the dollars in your pocket become less valuable. The question on the large scale becomes how do we get out of this problem (if at all) and in [...]

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Do you understand gold and the dollar?

by Henry Becker 05.13.2010
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Since the onset of the global financial crisis that started in 2008 many of the rules of thumb have gone out the window. This has caused professional and retail investors a great amount of head scratching and headaches. The biggest problem with a breakdown of rules of thumb is that far too many investors rely [...]

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