Bullion Market Tools & Resources

Weimar Gold & Silver Prices 1919-1923

March 31, 2010

Weimar Germany hyperinflation prices of gold and silver in Marks from 1919 - 1923 by month. Charts are also presented to visually depict the speed and magnitude of the change. Consider the human story behind the numbers. How did people survive?

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Hyperinflation in history

January 18, 2010

All FIAT currency is eventually worth its intrinsic value....exactly zero! The average life of a paper currency is less than 40 years. This article highlights recent episodes of hyperinflation and some of the social and political consequences.

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Shoebox in Sydney or a chateau in France

May 10, 2009

Professor Steve Keen of the University of Western Sydney said he expected the Australian housing market to crash spectacularly. "We are going to see huge levels of unemployment, people will be forced to sell their houses and this will bring prices crashing down. "I'm expecting a depression out of this economic crisis and house prices will simply not hold up when a depression is occurring."

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Inflation and the French revolution

March 03, 2009

As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime (1789-94) was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West. It is also reminder that mass democracy and inflation go together, as surely as thunder and lightning. Let us revisit the Revolution, from a free-market, hard-money perspective.

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Ounces to acres

November 03, 2008

Gold and silver purchased in 2008 will protect your wealth and family, it may even make you very rich in the longer term. However life is to be lived and enjoyed. Bullionmark subscribes to a philosophy or strategy called "ounces to acres". When the ounces have done their job its time to convert the profit into acres. Buy a farm and enjoy life driving a tractor. Your dream may be different but the point is that gold and silver are not something to hold for ever. At some price, economic, social, political condition or personal lifestage it will be time to harvest and enjoy the benefits.

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