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The government has made it clear that they now want to encourage first time buyers over and above Buy To Let landlords. As a result, we are just a few weeks away from the massive increase in stamp duty on second properties. From April 1st anyone buying a second property will be charged an additional…

For those who believe that gold represents safety from the incompetence of central banks then January has been a good month. Having watched the value of gold fall for several years as fiat money printing replaced financial prudence it was good to see the value of gold rise last month. In fact, Goldcore report that…

Your money’s not safe in a bank – don’t become a target. Not long to go now before the security of the money you keep in your bank account is significantly reduced – five weeks in fact. On January 1st 2016 the banks will reduce the amount of money that is “guaranteed” in your account…

How much money should you have in gold and silver right now? Well, this week we learned that China has decided exactly how much. It has increased its gold holdings by a massive 57% since 2009. That’s an average increase of around 10% a year which is far more than I have increased my gold…

In the last banking crisis the government used tax-payers money to bail out the banks. A lot of people were naturally very angry about that – particularly as million pound bank bonuses continued to flow to the very incompetents that had caused the problem in the first place. Now the situation is even worse because…

How to increase your profits by 20% or more with very little effort. If the profit you’re making from your business has reached a plateau, chances are, it’s not because the business has stopped growing it’s the owner that has stopped growing. That comes a no surprise when you consider the huge amount of mental…

One of the most asked questions I get is “How come inflation is not increasing when Central Governments are printing so much money?” It’s a very good question. In the last seven years the Federal Reserve (the Central Bank of America) has printed four trillion dollars on it’s own. Can you imagine? these are unbelievable numbers.…

Buy-to-let investors face new restrictions on borrowing after the Bank of England’s financial committee warned that the buy-to-let market posed a growing risk to the UK’s financial stability. The buy-to-let market is being blamed for pushing up house prices and stopping first time buyers from getting their first foot on the property ladder. We’ve all…

Do not confuse the state of the stock markets with the state of the global economy. Any idiot can print money – and over the last eight years it would appear every idiot has. Back in 2007 I wrote about the global debt passing $140 trillion. That’s the total global debt which comprises: 1. Household…

At last, China has officially announced it’s gold holdings for the first time since 2009. The statement came out on Friday and shows that “officially” China now holds 1,660 tonnes of gold reserves, that’s an increase of 604 tonnes since the last public disclosure six years ago. Given the huge volumes of gold passing through…

Texas has just announced that it is going to build it’s own gold bullion repository (I guess that’s a big plain old fashioned safe to you and me) in which they plan to store up to one billion dollars of gold. Where will Texas get one billion dollars of gold you may ask? Well, from…

I thought I was doing quite well with my steady acquisition of physical gold and silver (and by the way, if I have to write another email telling people the difference between physical metal and a piece of paper I will go nuts!). Then I read that Russia had bought another 300,000 ounces of gold…

You already know about the major lenders like the IMF, The World bank and the Asian Investment Bank. These lenders are all dominated by the United States of America. Domination of lenders, just like domination of the reserve currency with its vice like grip on the oil business, have given the US an unquestionable competitive…