Throughout China’s history the country was a silver standard country through and through. From its own silver coins to Spanish milled dollars to US trade dollars, the country made use of any silver coinage it could get its hands on. Even today collectors look for vintage coins with so-called “chop marks,” assay marks made by […]
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain, vast amounts of Eastern European military materiel was exported to the US by countries desperate for money. Americans got used to cheap surplus firearms and ammunition from the former Soviet Bloc. Among them were Makarov pistols and various other small pistols […]
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One of the key concerns most people have when planning for retirement is making sure that their money is safe. Between stock market crashes, Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi schemes, and hackers targeting financial accounts through phishing, there are numerous threats out there that need to be defended against. But while you can protect yourself against most […]
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If the Federal Reserve ends up cutting its target federal funds rate this week, it would be an admission that the economy is in a pretty precarious state. Many analysts are trying to spin a rate cut as an attempt to keep the economic “expansion” of the past ten years going, but that’s merely wishful […]
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The current stock market bull market has been fueled by the massive amounts of money pumped into world economies by central banks around the world. All that money had to go somewhere, and it has finally ended up in stock markets. To a large extent the continuing bull run is the result of stock buybacks […]
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One of the frustrating things to those who know that a stock market crash is coming has been the recent behavior of stock markets. All signs are pointing to an economic slowdown just around the corner, yet stock markets just recently set new all-time highs. What gives? If there’s one things that markets can be […]
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While we’ve previously profiled the Mexican Gold Libertad coin, its Silver Libertad counterpart is perhaps better known. Mexico’s mining industry has existed for centuries and was long a source of gold and silver for the Spanish Empire. Even today Mexico remains the world’s top producer of silver, besting 2nd-place Peru by nearly 50%, 3rd-place China […]
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2018 was supposed to have been a great year for precious metals, but it ended up being a down year for investment assets across the board, from stocks and bonds to gold and silver. Silver was hit hard, with a 9% drop over the course of the year, slightly worse than the 5.6% drop in […]
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The .30-06 Springfield cartridge wasn’t created out of thin air, just like the rifle for which it was created. The 1903 Springfield rifle was essentially a modified small-ring Mauser, developed in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War after US forces had found themselves incredibly outgunned by Spanish Mauser-armed forces. The .30-06 Springfield cartridge was essentially […]
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To anyone taking a look at the US economy, the fact that the Federal Reserve is contemplating a rate cut, and the fact that markets are expecting a 50 basis point rate cut, is absolutely mind-boggling. Here we are with an economy that is supposedly booming, with employers struggling to find workers, with stock markets […]
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