Past Newsletters
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01 Jan 2017
How Currencies Depreciate and Gold Appreciates Over Time
Over the last century, gold’s return showed an average 3.9% to 4.5% return in USD terms while the USD had an average 3.2% loss in real terms.
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15 Nov 2016
Debt Monetisation - an Economic Powder keg
At a time when global debts are 20% of world GDP higher than during the 2008 crisis these negative interest rates are a big warning sign that something is terribly amiss with our financial system. There is simply too much debt which has been artificially made too cheap for too long and it is routinely financed by printing new currency (debt monetization).
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31 May 2016
The Resurgence of Silver's Monetary Role
Our article this month is a review of the global silver market which was prompted by new data from the World Silver Survey 2016 report produced by Thomson Reuters and the Silver Institute. The report essentially shows that silver demand was 130 million oz larger than supply in 2015 (a 68% deficit increase over 2014) and that mining output is due to fall in 2016.
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29 Mar 2016
The Advent of Powerful Personal Bullion Testing Tools
The Precious Metal Verifier (PMV) will be launched in Singapore on April 1st by The Safe House, our subsidiary, at the upcoming Singapore International Coin Fair.
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28 Feb 2016
The Gold to Silver Ratio Rule, Buy Low, Sell High
As we write this, an ounce of gold will buy you about 82 ounces of silver, however just 5 years ago the same ounce of gold would only have bought 40 ounces and yet, 3 years prior in 2008, an ounce of gold would have bought you 80 ounces of silver, just as it is today.
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15 Jan 2016
Chinese new year specials, credit cards and peer to peer lending
Our article this month is on our Secured Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending, the people who designed it, and how parcelized bullion collateral is ideal to virtually eliminate the possibility of defaults while benefiting both lenders and borrowers.
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21 Dec 2015
Protect your Wealth from Escheatings, Nationalizations and Confiscations
We focus on why bullion nationalization happened in the past, why we might see a repeat during a systemic crisis and, most importantly, how you can reliably protect yourself.
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06 Nov 2015
Bullion Supply is Recovering, New Infographics and Storage Reports Released
This month we are announcing a new set of greatly enhanced reports for S.T.A.R. Storage customers, we are writing on the importance of counterparty risk and we are publishing a high-quality infographic on Sovereign Debts and how governments kept on borrowing over the last seven years.
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29 Sep 2015
Bullion Supplies, Shortages and Three of the Most Common Bullion Storage Misunderstandings
In the industry most customers are only creditors, not owners, and fabricated security and "all risk insurance" claims are often used to derail or mislead legitimate customer enquiries. We detail three of the most common storage misunderstandings and why it is imporant to know about them.
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27 Aug 2015
Why Physical Silver Demand has little Effect on Silver Prices
I am sharing with you our company order chart (in tonnes per month) over the last five years vs. the price of silver. The graphs show two clear trends that help to explain why the market has recurring silver shortages and falling prices. Details are at a later section below.
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