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US debt Kleptocracy - Visualization of US Debt

Chris has examples of what money looks like physically...100, million, billion, trillion... and it has helped with my internal "picture" Here's new visualization showing what it looks like on shipping pallets all the way to ...

Forum topic - mainebob - Aug 4 2011 - 9:57am - 0 comments

A Golden Tipping Point: University of Texas Takes Delivery Of $1 Billion In Physical Gold

This was posted on Zero Hedge last night.  Along with the last week's rise in the PM's could this be the start of mainstream demand... Per Bloomberg: " The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. ...

Forum topic - CurtU - Apr 17 2011 - 8:50am - 2 comments

German Inflation Money...with a bit of humor

I though you all would get a kick out of this.  A few years ago when I lived in Germany, a friend gave me this note.  It's a five billion Mark note printed in 1923 at the height of Germany's hyper-inflation.  It has a few interesting ...

Forum topic - Mr. Fri - Mar 17 2009 - 12:49am - 1 comment