Well, it appears that purchasing gold right about now would be a sensible investment before things take another dive. We've been playing with this Monopoly money a little too long. Has anyone out there bought gold bullion before? Where did you purchase it? Has anyone heard of bullionvault.com?

I've used the northwest territorial mint a few times for silver. Gold is a bit to much for me.

http://www.nwtmint.com/

Please take a look at the real measures of money supply, M1, M2 and MZM. Currency in circulation is just the paper money. Most of our money is kept in savings and checking accounts. These accounts dwarf the currrency in circulation and the adjusted monetary base. The adjusted monetary base is basically the monetary policy of the federal reserve. When the first $350 billion was released last fall that is the spike in the chart shown by Glenn Beck. Its not a secret or a surprise, but it’s also not alarming once you compare to the size of MZM. As of Jan 2009 MZM is ~$9 Trillion, which dwarfs the $350 billion spike in monetary base.

May I suggest http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com/.

This calculator allows one to begin NOW to trade with others on the basis of current silver and gold prices. Yes, you can use coins and fractions for purchases, provided you both agree.

And if you click on the funny man at the top right of the page, you'll be taken to a site with much more information from a very trusted Constitutionalist.

I'm no economist. Maybe it's not "alarming" to some that the Fed is printing a huge amount of cash backed by nothing - since ALL of it is created that way.

But when they print more for CIRCULATION, this will be vastly multiplied by the banking system (as they loan it all, then add that plus interest to their "assets" from which they can loan yet more). And all of that added to the supply makes each of the dollars I hold worth that much less. As people realize this, prices will rise. And usually our wages and investment income (at least that which is denominated in dollars) does not keep pace. So we lose at both ends.

Going one step further, these policies which will kill the (falsely named) "dollar" mean an even greater devaluation somewhere down the road (i.e., however long extenuated, before my retirement). Okay, an example. Russian rubles were devalued, and a man's life savings bought a pair of sneakers or a bicycle in the 'new rubles' that replaced them.

Less drastic and more recent: German's who held marks had to turn in their currency for Euros, at about two to one nominal value. That cut their holdings in half. But wait! Merchants kept their nominal prices the same, though now valued in Euros, so those holding marks now had 1/4 the purchasing power.

Interesting way to eat up people's capital, no?

Apparently you have trouble reading graphs, the chart Glenn Beck shows, shows a spike of over 600 Billion. The chart that GB is showing by the way is M2.

Before you ridicule next time please research your position.

M1 is a measure of total money supply. The M1 money supply includes only cash in circulation plus checkable demand deposits.

M2 is a measure of total money supply. M2 includes everything in M1 and also savings and other time deposits

M3 is all of m2 + large time deposits, institutional money-market funds, short-term repurchase agreements, along with other larger liquid assets

MZM represents all money in M2 less the time deposits, plus all money market funds

there will be a ten year depression there will be civil war in america
there will be cross border troops to canada
I live in the country
I just want to marry a woman that loves me and lets me love her
grow my own food and chickens and milk a cow
and have eggs
and wait cause the next ten years is going to be HELL
if you believe in the depression
and you want to live in canada
Email me
I am fourty two
Integrity@cyg.net

I also would like to buy gold, but which company do you buy from? Anyone heard of ITM trading? Any tips appreciated.

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