It is impossible to understand and appreciate the tremendous appeal of gold and silver without understanding the precise and comprehensive definition of the word "money". This article does just that.

An understanding of the current economic realities and trends suggest that it is imperative that you take steps now to prepare for the economic storm that's coming & identify which safe haven investment alternatives you should invest in to actually prosper in the years ahead. This article does just that.

Instead of gold, people commonly think of paper money as the only medium of exchange and as a store of value; cash is after all their unit of account. They see the gold price rising when they should be seeing the value of paper money falling.

I'd been puzzling over why bankers and economists have rather suddenly become strong advocates of a "cashless society" and I finally have ascertained the REAL (true) answer which I would like to share with you.

The current rally in gold & silver is but one of many steps in a bottoming formation. Each successive step confirms the one that came before. The next step will be to watch the next downward reaction to see how it unfolds in order to assess the significance of the rally over the past two weeks.

Martin Armstrong’s model of predicting economic turning points deserves very serious attention. After all, upon refusing to give his Economic Confidence Model to the CIA, Armstrong was imprisoned for 12 years until his release in 2011.

'Real money' must be a 'store of value, 'precious' or scarce, uniform and be evenly divisible which fiat money is NOT and gold and silver IS.

The present economic expansion is being brought about by massive stimulus policies and, as such, does not constitute genuine economic growth. Such bogus economic growth by way of monetary and fiscal stimulus can go on only until either the collapse of hyperinflation brings an end to the artificial boom or the amount of accumulated debt makes state bankruptcy inevitable.

[As outlined in this article,] there are no reasons to buy paper gold or silver. [That being said,] the reasons for buying and holding physical gold & silver are more compelling than ever, and we expect those reasons to become even more compelling.

The main reason to buy gold and silver any time is as insurance against extreme negative events. The main reason for buying gold in 2016 remains the risk of an international monetary system collapse. Gold is money in extremis.