If you like a chart or two, here’s a few interesting ones showing foreigners have been reducing their holdings of US Treasuries.  Could this be the start of the inevitable loss of faith in government debt?  We shall have to wait and see… By Bud Conrad, Chief Economist, Casey Research Foreign central banks buy US Treasury and Agency debt through...

An eye-opening interview with renowned speculator Doug Casey, conducted by Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report. Doug explains why fiat currencies around the world are destined for collapse… and what investors can, and should, do to protect themselves.  He also touches on a possible return to a gold standard and what price level gold may have to reach...

We’ll warn you from the outset this is a lengthy interview.  However we’ve long appreciated the insight of the founding fathers of the USA.  In drafting the US constitution they aimed to protect the people from much that has come to pass.  Dr Vieira comments on what the individual US states could do to restore a “free-market-oriented and...

The following article is written from the perspective of the US dollar.  But as New Zealanders we can use the same logic to consider our exposure to a single currency so it’s worth reading and substituting the NZD for the USD and asking yourself the same questions… By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD Have you considered what will happen to your portfolio―and...

The End of America The founder and namesake of Stansberry Associates, Porter Stansberry, shocked the audience at the Casey Research Spring Summit with his ‘End of America’ speech. “Our country racked up an enormous amount of debt over the last 40 years – an unprecedented amount of debt. We went from being the world’s largest creditor, to being the...