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    World Being Primed for Global Currency?

    Posted on 2010/11/15 | No Comments
    On April 30, 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommended that the world establish a global currency called the “Bancor” (named after a hypothetical world currency once suggested by John Maynard Keynes, who headed the World Banking Commission that created the IMF) and that a...

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    Why The World Cares About A US Financial Crisis

    Posted on 2010/11/04 | 6 Comments
    Many people understand that the American economy is in bad shape, but they’re not sure why they should care if they, themselves, aren’t American. Well, the fact is, that you NEED to care because the American dollar is considered to be the standard unit of...

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    What’s a Fiat Currency?

    Posted on 2010/11/04 | 2 Comments
    Throughout history, man has exchanged goods and services either through barter or through the use of currencies. In the good old days, currencies where things of intrinsic value to the culture that used them. Pieces of bone, sea shells, gold, silver and the like have...

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    Fiat Currencies Don’t Matter to Me… Do They?

    Posted on 2010/11/04 | 2 Comments
    As I wrote in my article about fiat currencies, one of the biggest risks they hold for the average person of the middle-class is hyperinflation. Hyperinflation occurs when a currency’s value becomes so drastically deflated, that it takes extreme amounts of that currency to purchase...

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    The Fall of the Middle-Class. You CAN Get Out of the Way.

    Posted on 2010/11/04 | 1 Comment
    In my last article I presented the image of the middle-class balanced on top of a fence, with the poor on one side and the rich on the other, and I wrote of what’s most likely to happen when the currencies of the world collapse....

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    Wealth Intelligence Community

    Posted on 2010/11/03 | 1 Comment
    Since 2006 I’ve been working to increase my knowledge in the areas of finance and wealth. I have to admit, it was never a topic that I took very seriously before then. Like many, I was raised with a limited understanding of money and finances....

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