Wealth Building Course

Sometimes when you look at the government and the way that it handles important financial policy, you could almost be led to believe that their goal is actually to try to destroy the American economy. Believe it or not, there are three activities of the government that actually do wreck the financial health of this capitalist system. Between aggressive and frequent government intervention, their penchant to print new money, and the existence and activities of the Federal Reserve, it is…[Continue Reading]

The old saying that you can not believe everything that you hear or see on television is so true. When you turn on the financial news, the talking heads and financial pundits have the audacity to tell you that the economy is growing and recovering, even though your own observations and gut feelings tell you that this is far from the truth. In fact, there is an illusion of economic growth that the government aggressively perpetuates. They do this with…[Continue Reading]

For years there have been whispers that you may have heard about possible government manipulation of the gold market. No one has ever been able to conclusively prove the allegations that central banks, the Federal Reserve, the London Bullion Association, and the so called giant bullion banks all collude together to keep the price of gold artificially low. There is an organization that has made great strides in their efforts to expose these immoral and unethical acts that are performed…[Continue Reading]

Student loans are an educational help tool that the government created back in the 1970′s to help finance the high and rising cost of education for the baby boomers and subsequent generations that followed them. What originally began as a benevolent aid to help put you through college has morphed into a monster that has only grown astronomically with time. Today, the sum total of all student loan debt in the United States is more than a trillion dollars. Even…[Continue Reading]

There is no shortage of books that you have seen publishers and authors release on the financial crisis, Great Recession, and Sovereign Debt Collapse that continue to haunt much of the world in 2011. Michael Lewis is an author who is no stranger to these topics. In the paragraphs that follow, you will learn why “Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World” is a book that you should read in order to understand how the various sovereign nations blew themselves…[Continue Reading]

You have probably heard comparisons made before to as safe as Fort Knox, or as sure as gold in Fort Knox. You may have wondered what the story is on the gold that the U.S. government keeps in the American Depository at Fort Knox. The official government line is that this United States Bullion Depository contains an incredible 5,046 tons, or 147.2 million troy ounces, of gold bullion. This figure represents about 2.5% of the total gold ever mined and…[Continue Reading]

In the next ten years, you are going to look back and realize that the Great Recession actually marked the beginning of the end of the present financial system and dollar hegemony that has existed in the world since the Second World War. This will be brought about by the sudden loss of confidence in the U.S. led world economy. When the government debt bubble finally pops, the stage will be fully set for the dollar to drop rapidly and…[Continue Reading]

When you look at the Western world today, it is easy to lose confidence in what you see. The United States government’s credit has been downgraded for the first time in its over two hundred year history. Japan is mired in the aftermath of the Tsunami, nuclear disaster, and attempted recovery. Europe struggles with its own sovereign government debt problems and possible banking crisis that began in Greece, Portugal, and Ireland and threatens to overtake even Spain and Italy. You…[Continue Reading]

Now that the debt ceiling has been raised once again, it is a good time to consider the past and present story of the United States debt. You might be surprised to learn that at no time in the two hundred and thirty five year history of this nation has the government ever held a greater literal amount of debt or a higher debt to GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, than it does today. In the paragraphs that follow, you…[Continue Reading]

News of the imminent government shut down has even reached reached the status of water cooler conversation at the office. The effects on the average American’s psyche are devastating already. According to recent shocking polls taken, nearly one in two Americans now believes that the country will enter a second Great Depression next year or in 2013. Half of Americans believe that the greatest days of the nation economically are behind us, while forty percent believe that their children’s future…[Continue Reading]