The December 2000 rate cut preceded the recession in March 2001 and the July 2007 rate cut preceded the Great Recession beginning in December 2007. July 2019 was the first rate cut since 2008 and occurred 4 months ago as of November.

The phrase, “Not worth a Continental,” will soon be commonly known for the same reasons that it was said in the early Republic: the USA are broke and the paper money is becoming worthless.

“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” -Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Meet the Press, August 7, 2011.

The protests are generally aimed at governments taxing and regulating people out of the middle class.

“Stocks, bonds and other security: everything is at risk... If the whole system collapses, the gold stock offers a collateral to start over. Gold gives confidence in the power of the central bank's balance sheet.”

“The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to ancient Rome.” -President of the USA, Donald Trump.

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

Does a person buying an ETF buy gold? The SPDR GLD Prospectus is researched as an example.

From 1492-1914 the New Eastern Romans and New Western Romans discovered, conquered, and colonized the majority of the world; spreading their common Greco-Roman culture. In 2019, the USA has been bankrupted by foreign wars, debt, and Socialism. The USA, like the Western Romans, have transformed from a Republic to an Empire.

This article seeks to explain how interest rates are set by the Fed. The subject is meant to sound complicated but it is not once one understands that the Fed is trying to keep interest rates low to inflate the stock, housing, and bond bubbles.

Fractional Reserve Banking, also known as fraud, is where a bank only keeps 10% of the cash it claims to deposit and lends out the rest.

Bread and Circus only works so long as the taxpayer can afford the debt.

The attack on Saudi oil production was an attack on the petro-dollar. If the FOMC raises interest rates on September 18, the everything bubble could pop. If they keep interest rates the same or lower interest rates, the gold price could go higher, weakening demand for the dollar.

Excerpts from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s regulations: Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms. Notably, gold is considered to be on par with cash. That probably has something to do with why central banks have been net buyers of gold since 2008 for the first time since 1987

Bring me a denarium, and let me look at it. When they brought it, he asked them, Whose is this likeness? Whose name is inscribed on it? Caesar’s, they said.

Bitcoin is digital gold. Is it better than physical gold?

The longer a loan needs to be, the higher the interest rate will be to reflect the additional period of time that the creditor cannot spend their money. An inverted yield curve is where shorter term loans are yielding higher interest rates than longer term loans. This does not happen in a free market and reflects a distortion in the market.

Civil disobedience must be tolerated by governments whose citizens or subjects are armed. It need not be tolerated if the people are disarmed.

The history of the dollar from the Continental, to gold and silver coin, to the Federal Reserve Note.