The tipping point is upon us!

A “tipping point” in sociological theory is defined as “the level at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.” An idea or a movement has reached “critical mass.”

I believe the global economy has reached that point.

After publishing my book Rich Dad’s Guide to investing in Gold and Silver in 2008, I have spent the last few years touring the world and educating people on investing in cycles, and why, this time, the cycle benefits gold and silver. Understanding these cycles and investing on the right side of them can make you very wealthy.

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During my travels, one of the most remarkable phenomena I have observed is the extent to which the people of the world have been transformed, in the course of a generation or two, into investors. This tipping point corresponds to the beginning of the second phase of the current bull market in gold and silver. In almost any bull market throughout history, the second phase of the cycle, when the public really becomes aware a bull market is occurring, is the longest phase in duration and also the phase when the greatest gains are made.
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Over the past year I have had the privilege to take part in various speaking tours in numerous countries throughout Latin America and Asia-Pacific. During my recent partaking in the first Silver Summit in Singapore I had a strong sense that the second phase of the greatest gold and silver bull market in history is beginning. Here’s why:

Never before in history have all the world’s currencies been fiat currencies at the same time. Remember fiat currencies are established by government decree and have no intrinsic value.

Because every currency in the world is a fiat currency, there is no place to run to protect your wealth against government confiscation by continuing to print more and more currency—nowhere to run, except to gold and silver.

The same phenomenon exists, everywhere in the world. The number of Australian dollars in existence has multiplied 180 times since 1960. There are 389 times more Taiwanese dollars in existence today than there were in 1962. Every government in the world is pursuing the same policy of currency debasement—and as a result—there is more than 10 times the currency circulating world-wide than there was in the 1970’s.

Here’s another big change between then and now: In the 1970s, during the last great gold and silver boom, 90 percent of the global population had no way of participating in the bull market. That’s because in the Communist Soviet Union and in Mao’s China, no markets existed, and there was not a single individual investor among those enormous populations. It was only America and Western Europe that drove gold and silver prices to their stunning heights.

This time around, the world is very different: there are billionaires in Russia, China, India, South America—every continent (except Antarctica) has its billionaires. The richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, lives in Mexico City.

Today, there are 10 times more people on the planet who have the freedom and the means to chase the next big thing, driving up market prices in the process.

Not only are there 10 times more people with the ability to participate in the market, there are somewhere between 10 and 100 times more people today who have an investment mentality than in the 1970s. Back in those days, before Nixon took us off the gold standard, people were savers. You could go to work in your teens or early 20s, save 10 percent of your income each month, and by the time you were in your 60s, you could retire and live the rest of your life off the interest on your savings.

That saver mindset evaporated the second Nixon ended the gold standard. From that day on, if you planned to enjoy your retirement, you were forced to become an investor or a speculator. The NASDAQ tech bubble of 1999 turned everyone into a day trader. The real estate bubble turned everyone into a flipper. Today, I hardly know anyone who doesn’t have an investment mentality.

This philosophical shift didn’t just occur in the United States; it happened everywhere. In modern China, investing is a sport, and Shanghai has its own riotous stock exchange.

And with the explosion of deficit spending and fiat currency creation, all over the planet, the next great bubble is destined to be precious metals.

As people rush back to gold and silver to protect their wealth, they are going to drive precious metals into a bull market the likes of which the world has never seen. Those on the right side of the bubble will profit immensely.

The 2010s will be an exciting decade. For years I have been saying we have been presented with the greatest opportunity in the history of humankind, because global economic conditions are setting up the greatest transfer of wealth in history.

So, in a nutshell, in the gold and silver bull market of the 2000s compared to the metals bull market of the 70s, you have 10 times more people able to invest, of whom 10 to 100 times more possess an investment mentality and ready to pile onto the next big thing, and there’s 10 times the money (currency) in existence.

A critical mass of world investor’s are recognizing the unsustainable nature of the fiat system. And the second phase of this bull market is beginning right now.

The tipping point has been reached!

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Either due to a growing lack of funding, recent commitments to help prop up the failed banking system, or new introduced regulations to freeze accounts in case of future bank runs… these three funds have had major news stories with far reaching repercussions:

THE BOTTOM LINE?

Physical Gold and Silver savings can’t go in the red as they have no counterparty or funding risks.

Whether in your hand or in a 3rd party segregated vault, saving physical precious metals for you and those you love is the antithesis to further propping up this bankrupt banking system.

The safety and liquidity of precious metals is unparalleled. Don’t allow yourself to be on the end of frozen funds.

Physical Gold and Silver is our answer to the frozen red siphon that threatens further devaluation of these savings funds that in many cases are proving to be insolvent.

Isn’t it time to ensure that your savings answer to you and to you alone?

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In terms of value, we believe the real estate market still has further to fall.

Although we are through the first wave of “sub-prime” mortgage onslaughts one glance at the chart below demonstrates the oncoming second wave of mortgage resets around the corner:

Another huge amount of resets are on the way, but this time the majority of the mortgage resets are “option arms”:

What are Option Arms? Here is the definition from The Mortgage Professor:

It is an ARM [Adjustable rate Mortgage} on which the interest rate adjusts monthly and the payment adjusts annually, with borrowers offered options on how large a payment they will make. The options include interest-only, and a “minimum” payment that is usually less than the interest-only payment. The minimum payment option results in a growing loan balance, termed “negative amortization”.

Not only do we believe real estate will fall further in value here in the United States but in other real estate markets around the world, as many markets have been propped up by government stimulus projects and have yet to crash:

For those interested in real estate investing, as we certainly are, we believe the current name of the game is to buy and hold precious metals. We patiently await the ongoing over to undervalued swing in real estate market values and visa versa for precious metal values. It’s a steady game of stockpiling physical Gold and Silver and keeping a finger on the economic pulse of our communities, country, and the world.

The following excerpts are from Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver:

Today we find ourselves in a similar situation, only better. Real estate has become much more overvalued and silver has become extremely undervalued. Measured against silver, the median price, single-family home in the U.S. hit it’s peak in 2002, at a price of 38,123 ounces of silver, some two and half times higher than at the beginning of the last precious market in 1971.

When silver hit its peak of $52.80 in 1980, it was not rare. Today as we’ve already discussed in detail, identifiable above-ground silver stockpiles have been drawn down to a tiny fraction of their size in 1980.

Remember, in 1980 it only took 814 ounces of silver to purchase one home, and silver wasn’t rare then.

*If you believe Silver ETF’s actually hold the purported Silver inventories they claim.

When the gold and silver bull market explodes, the financial news will react just as it did in 1980, and the only thing you will hear about is gold and silver. At that time there will be market analysts all over the Internet, radio, and TV, proclaiming to everyone the greatest investment of all time – gold and silver! The rarity of silver will go from something that a small fraction of the world’s population knows about to something everyone is now an expert on.

After studying things like the tulip mania of 1637, the NASDAQ bubble of the 1990s, the history and the current fundamentals of gold and silver, and the history of financial cycles, it would not surprise me in the least to see less than 500 ounces of silver buy a median-priced, single family home sometime in the future.

The biggest mean reversion in history is knocking on our door. I can’t stress this enough. The good news is that everything always reverts to the mean. Whether the news is good or bad will depend on if you are invested in the correct asset class for the cycle you are currently in. Investors who are aware of this will have wealth knocking on their doors, whereas investors who are caught unaware may end up with collection agents knocking on theirs.

The point of all this is that with real estate so overvalued, and silver so undervalued, chances are that they will both overshoot to the opposite extreme, before reverting to the mean. What that means for you is that you now have a very rare chance to become very wealthy very quickly by simply taking advantage of economic cycles and the wealth transfer they create.

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The following transcript is from a recent interview with legendary investor, Jim Rogers:

King World News – 3/13/2010

Eric King: Is a day of more of a social breakdown rapidly approaching would you say?

Jim Rogers: Well, I certainly don’t want it. Nobody does anywhere, but what I can see is they keep making mistakes, and as you keep making mistakes ultimately the situation is going to be worse.

The economic and geopolitical situation will be worse, and so we as Americans are going to be more and more unhappy and that again is not a radical statement. It has always led to social unrest. We are seeing some now in the US. Other countries in the world have seen governments topple in the last two, three, four years by what’s going on. And I am afraid that the people in Washington are making it worse, and if it does get worse as I anticipate, that has always led to social unrest, throughout history, everywhere in the world.

Eric King: If you had to guess on the social breakdowns in the United States, what kind of a time frame would you give me as a guess?

Jim Rogers: Well, certainly within the next decade, I mean that would be easy to say, perhaps sooner. You know Eric I know people who insist that the US will have to default on it’s government debt in the next couple of years. That’s not my statement, I don’t know because I haven’t done the homework, but I do know people I admire who swear to me it’s going to happen. If that sort of thing starts happening, we have problems at the state level, the city level, and if the US government is in that kind of trouble, whenever it is, whether it’s the next two years or in the next ten years, it’s going to lead to problems.

Again, I don’t like saying it first of all, second, it’s just the way the world has always worked, not a radical statement. But if suddenly people cannot get food or cannot get jobs, especially you know, the America of this decade is not the America of the 1930’s, in the America of the 1930’s people were still disciplined, hard working, much more so than they are now. Now in the US, there is more of a, "you owe it to us mentality" than there was in America a hundred years ago, or eighty years ago. Again that’s not a strange thing, it’s just a historic fact and people with that current attitude are more inclined to be unhappy and do something about it than others.

Our study of past crises show that those who took action beforehand, were the ones that were able to be prepared.

     

"If you needed emergency coinage for any reason, if there was a true currency crisis, this (US Silver Eagle) has all the elements that you need in a currency crisis. It says that it’s one-ounce fine silver. One ounce is what they are hearing on the radio, what’s going to be repeated on MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, it’s gonna be every hour if there was a currency crisis, you’d be hearing the price of gold and the price of silver and they’re quoting one troy ounce is the price. So this is exactly what the guy down at the gas station is hearing." - Mike Maloney

     

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Mike Maloney – Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver:

In the end, I think we are in for a wild roller coaster of a ride, with a few whipsaws thrown in. First the threat of deflation, followed by a helicopter drop, followed by big inflation, followed by real deflation, then followed by a hyperinflation.

This scenario is the one that fulfills predictions made by Robert Kiyosaki, and several other people I have great respect for. I think that our current subprime fiasco will turn into a larger problem than it is now, and as the real estate sector begins to plummet, and the credit currency that was borrowed into existence begins to evaporate, the threat of deflation will loom. Then Ben Bernanke will come to the rescue and bail us out by orchestrating another helicopter drop of currency.

Whatever turn we take next on this financial "roller coaster" ride, GoldSilver.com strives to have contingency plans for all economic scenarios: deflationary depression, stagflation, high price inflation, or even a possible hyperinflation.

There is a looming threat of hyperinflation coming to pass in the United States and we strive to be prepared.

How do we do this?

We study history compared with present circumstances and pay close attention to items that have 100% track records.

Then for our own strategy we examine how others have handled high inflationary climates in the past. Let’s take for example South America in the 1980’s:

• In 1988, after 3 years of consecutively increasing their money supply over 300 percent, Brazil had nearly a 1,000 percent inflation for that year alone.
• In 1985, Argentina suffered an annualized inflation rate of 1,000 percent.
• Bolivia, also in 1985, suffered a record inflation level of 50,000 percent annualized.

Remember that these countries have incredible resources at their disposal such as agriculture, mining, and a large work force. It’s not like they are much different than other economies at their core.

In 1989, Dr. Gerald Swanson, author of The Hyperinflation Survival Guide, visited South America over a two year period to study the development of inflation and it’s impact on businesses, individuals, and governments. He and his research team interviewed 80 leading bankers and industrialists, as well as ordinary citizens from Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina.

"Inflation is when you go to the same restaurant each morning, order the same breakfast, and each time have to ask how much it costs." – Brazilian businessman

The following excerpts are from The Hyperinflation Survival Guide:

Imagine that a customer has just placed the largest order you have ever received, and he is preparing to pay cash for immediate delivery.

Your response? You thank him and explain that you can’t afford to fill the order, in spite of the fact that you have enough inventory.

You explain further that you gave your employees a 10 percent pay hike last week, and they will be demanding another within the month.

The price of your most important raw material went up 12 percent yesterday, and to purchase more you will need a loan, with interest rates currently running at 6 percent monthly.

In spite of your increased wage and supply costs, you can’t raise your own prices because the government refused your latest price increase request.

If you fill you customer’s order, you will actually lose money.

This scenario, in one form or another, is not uncommon in economies with soaring inflation rates, and has become practically routine in countries like Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia.

But I am not asking you to imagine what it would be like to run a business in South America, where the situation is often worse than I have described.

I am asking you to imagine what it might one day be like in the United States.

"Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuance of that habit means the poorhouse." – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

As business and financial leaders throughout Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina pointed out, though, it will not take triple digit inflation to wreak havoc on the United States economy. A sudden acceleration into the teens and twenties would be sufficient to alter personal and corporate lifestyles, and would necessitate changes in the way Americans run their businesses and their lives.

An inflationary surge of this scope is easily possible given current U.S. economic conditions. Indeed, many South American leaders are convinced that rising inflation rates are the logical byproduct of what they see as our ruinous fiscal policies. Again and again, these business and financial leaders expressed dismay that America’s headlong sprint down the classic inflationary path was receiving so little attention in the United States, while it seemed so obvious from their vantage point at the end of that road.

If there is one overriding lesson from South America, it is that governments cannot indefinitely continue to spend beyond their means without suffering terrible economic consequences. There is simply no logical reason to think that the United States can become the first country in world history to successfully manage it’s economy by continuing to rely on the resources of other nations to finance its excesses.

Below is the latest chart from the Federal Reserve showing base money creation:

This money creation is unprecedented in the United States and shows no sign of slowing down. It may be new to us, but people from other countries can tell you from first-hand experience how it will turn out.

How many times do governments have to reprove that the formula of:

Slowing economy + increased currency creation does not equal long term prosperity for the country?

When this has happened in other countries there have been many losers, but the positive part of this equation is that there are also some individuals and families that win big with life changing wealth. Those who understand what is happening and take action, not only protect themselves but massively prosper in the final equation.

The resounding answer we have come up with for ourselves and our families is holding physical precious metals either directly or in storage.

Examples in these other countries show that when this debasement of the currency happens there is a massive wealth transfer from those that hold the depreciating paper assets to those holding items of intrinsic value.

Are you ready?

It is possible to have your IRA in actual physical Gold and Silver but remember the cutoff date for 2009 IRA’s is fast approaching. If you are considering making this move or further contributing to your existing precious metal IRA we suggest you start the process as soon as possible.

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Robert Kiyosaki – Mike Maloney – Robert Duncan

Rich Dad's Prophecy by Robert Kiyosaki

In his book Rich Dad’s Prophecy, Robert Kiyosaki predicted that one of the greatest stock market booms in history was yet to come, and would last at least until 2007. This was amazing considering that the book was written back in 2002. The country was still reeling from 9/11 and financial scandals like Enron, while the DOW was finishing a three-year brutal bear market, and many analysts were predicting a bear market for years to come. But Robert made his ultra-bullish prediction in the midst of all that bearish sentiment based on the fundamentals of the baby boom demographics and their retirement needs. The so-called experts called Robert a lunatic. Current events reveal he’s a genius.

I met Robert Kiyosaki in 2005. He was holding one of his favorite live events: a book study where 100 to 200 people who have all done their homework by reading the assigned book get together to discuss, analyze, and interpret the book, the world, and their lives. It is always a weekend of revelation and inspiration.

The Dollar Crisis by Richard Duncan

The book we were studying was The Dollar Crisis by Richard Duncan. The book outlines how we came to this cliff’s edge of financial ruin and how years of fiscal malfeasance had built up an energy that would soon visit it’s rage upon us as a monetary monsoon of a magnitude yet unknown.

As we studied the crisis, storm clouds darkened the room, the wind whipped the pages of our books, and the rain began pelting our bodies. But in the middle of the storm, Robert was standing there, alone in the sunlight, unruffled by the wind, untouched by the rain.

"Bring it on!" he yelled. "Real Investors don’t run from crisis. They run toward it! Bring it on!"

It was then that I realized that the sense of panic we felt was wholly unfounded. The reason there was light where Robert was standing, and darkness everywhere else in the room, was because his vision was clearer than ours. His clarity of vision was on a whole other level, a level the rest of the room had not yet attained. He had a clarity of vision that could not be achieved through study and knowledge, but only through a change in context. His context gave him a whole different perspective of things to come. it allowed him to not just see through the darkness but to sweep away the darkness, flooding his world with light. There was no darkness where he stood, because there was no darkness in his world.

That was the moment he gave me a truly great gift: a change of context. The clouds broke, the rain stopped, and the wind died. It was as if I had awakened from a bad dream. The gift Robert bestowed upon me was the revelation that the greatest opportunity in the history of mankind had just been laid at my feet. All I had to do was reach down and pick it up.

Tuesday March 16th, please join Robert Kiyosaki, Michael Maloney, and Robert Duncan for an Exclusive Free Podcast:

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to read this newsletter online   Dear Friend - You have been hearing me say that it is time to be prepared for the Greatest Wealth Transfer in the History of the World. The bad news is, as the economic turbulence continues on a global scale, those playing by the old rules of money will lose everything they have worked for. Savers will be losers. “The year 2013 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the Federal Reserve System. For nearly one hundred years the Fed has pulled off the biggest cash heist in the world. This cash heist is a bank robbery where the robbers do not wear masks, but rather business suits with American flag pins in the jacket lapels. It is a robbery where the rich take from the poor via our our banks and our government.” Robert Kiyosaki – from Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money Join us for a free podcast on March 16, 5pm MST. You are invited to experience this one-time-only live discussion with two leading experts who will give you a better understanding of the money system and global economics. Join me on this exclusive podcast, along with Mike Maloney, Rich Dad Advisor on Precious Metals and the Global Economy, and Richard Duncan, Former Financial Sector Specialist for the World Bank and Consultant to the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Don’t feel intimidated! I promise to make this complex subject simple so that everyone has the opportunity to increase their financial intelligence. And IT WON’T COST YOU ONE THIN DIME. Register Now. Register now to join us on the March 16th, 5pm MST podcast. I am collaborating with two of the brightest minds on the subject of Gold vs. The U.S. Dollar in the world today to offer you this podcast session that will help you make better decisions about your financial future – at no cost to you. Mike Maloney and Richard Duncan are the financial wise men of this era in history.  The future is here.  The wealth transfer is on.  Join us. Read more about my special podcast guests:   Since 2002, Michael Maloney has specialized in education on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. He is widely regarded as an expert on economic cycles. Michael is the owner and founder of GoldSilver.com, an online precious metals dealership. GoldSilver.com provides invaluable research and commentary for its clients, assisting them in their wealth-building endeavors. Since 2005 Michael has been the precious metals investment advisor to Robert Kiyosaki. He is the author of Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver.   Richard Duncan is the author of The Dollar Crisis: Causes , Consequences, Cures – the bestseller that accurately predicted the global economic crisis that began in 2008. His latest book is The Corruption of Capitalism – A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth. Duncan has worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He also worked as a consultant for the IMF in Thailand during the Asian Crisis and is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management. Join us on March 16th 5pm MST for this exclusive podcast. This all-important discussion about money will open your eyes to the Greatest Wealth Transfer in the History of the World. Even if you know very little about this complex subject, listening to this podcast will help you make better decisions about your financial future. Register Now. Remember, it’s free as my commitment to your financial education continues. Robert Kiyosaki Send to a friend To stop receiving these emails please unsubscribe. © 2010 Cashflow Technologies, Inc.  | 4330 North Civic Center Plaza | Scottsdale, AZ 85251

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For those that study history the following recent article might have them sit up and take serious notice.

Citigroup Warns Customers It May Refuse To Allow Withdrawals

Business Insider – 2/19/2010

“Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal from all checking accounts. While we do not currently exercise this right and have not exercised it in the past, we are required by law to notify you of this change,” Citigroup said on statements received by customers all over the country.

We suggest an astute person compare what is happening right now with what happened just a few years ago in Argentina:

If you are curious about what a monetary crisis could look like in your country we encourage you to simply look for clues from other countries economic pasts, those that have already been through such a phenomenon.

This article offers a quick glimpse at a modern history example. Here is a brief recount what occurred only a few years ago in Argentina:

In July of 1989 – Argentina’s currency at the time was going through a hyperinflation. The austral (image below), recorded a 200% inflation rate in July alone, topping a 5000% rate of inflation for the year. It was for this reason that during the 1989 and 1990 hyperinflation peaks many Argentines began rejecting the austral as payment, demanding U.S. dollars instead.

To reign in ruinous price inflations, the government in 1991 adapted a new Argentine peso establishing a fixed dollar-pegged exchange rate (one Argentine peso per U.S. dollar). The initial aim of the measure was to ensure the acceptance of the new Argentine peso currency:

This 1991 enactment, the Law of Convertibility (La Ley de Convertibilidad), helped establish the peso and sharply reduce price inflation, restoring stable prices throughout the remainder of the 1990’s. This fact raised the quality of life for many Argentine citizens. As a result, many citizens could more easily afford to travel abroad, buy-imported goods at lower prices, or ask for credits in dollars at very low interest rates.

Meanwhile, Argentina’s government deficit spending remained high and public debts expanded rapidly but the country showed no true signs of being able to pay for their growing debt load. However the IMF (International Monetary Fund) continued to lend funds to the Argentine government while postponing scheduled repayments. The Argentine financial markets became saturated in dollars and foreign debt.

In 1999 Argentina’s GDP dropped 4% and unemployment levels were rising, a recession had begun. The economic downturn continued onward through 2000 and 2001.

In December 2001, the call on Argentina’s debts came forth, the government couldn’t pay their loans and obligations. Argentines becoming aware of the situation began withdrawing from their bank accounts preparing for the worst. Bank Runs had began.

To quell bank runs (citizens withdrawing large sums of paper currency from their bank accounts, and or converting pesos into dollars and sending them abroad) the government enacted a set of measures that effectively froze all bank accounts for 12 months, allowing for only minor sums of cash to be withdrawn. These government banking measures became informally known as the corralito – or crudely translated – an “animal pen“.

The citizens were livid at the rationing of withdrawals and the forced devaluations of their savings. As the country’s economic collapse took hold people took to the streets in mass, violence and vandalism ensued:

The vast majority of the public’s savings were caught in the financial quagmire (the “animal pen“) – they lost roughly 50% to 75% of their purchasing power.

In January 2002, after a full decade, the Law of Convertibility was finally abandoned. The Argentine peso plummeted in value going from a fixed 1 to 1 ratio with the US dollar, to as high as a 4 to 1 ratio. Effectively, this devaluation reduced the purchasing power of the Argentine peso to 25% or 1/4th of its 1990’s purchasing power.

The wealth transfer was vast and swift. The people’s savings were crushed:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_%281999%E2%80%932002%29#Effects_on_wealth_distribution
2. http://www.aaep.org.ar/anales/works/works2004/Amado-Cerro-Meloni-04.pdf

There were some who understood what was happening and took action before the bank freeze occurred. Many of these folks moved their capital offshore before the crisis played out, they were thus able to more than triple their purchasing power over those who strictly held Argentine pesos.

This is what tends to happen during currency crises, there are many on the inside who not only duck debasements and or devaluations, they exploit it to their advantage.

Wealth transfers from average savers to financial insiders.

Those with direct access to foreign currency exchange floors or first hand access to the fiat currency printing press tend to have an advantage over the average worker and saver.

But Here’s the Key… You Don’t Have to be An Insider

Examine what happened to an Argentinean who purchased Gold or Silver when the recession was quickening and the run on the banks was commencing:

In 2002, once the Law of Convertibility was abandoned, Argentines who held physical Gold and Silver not only protected their wealth and their purchasing power, they enhanced it 3 to 4 fold:

Here Is the Secret:

• You don’t have to be an insider to protect your wealth during a currency crisis.
• You don’t have to be stuck in failing banks trapped in a financial “animal pen”.
• You only need to study history and take action so you are not condemned to repeat the mistakes of those before you.

Don’t let history’s rhyme and repetition steal your hard earned wealth.

Physical Gold and Silver are unquestionably the solution for us.

What’s yours? -> Take action while there is still time remaining.

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As author of the international best-selling “Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver”, Mike talks with TheStreet.com’s precious metals reporter Alix Steel, revealing why he thinks Silver prices could skyrocket to $1500 within five years.

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Telegraph – Feb 7, 2010

The Guardian – Feb 7, 2010

Spiegel Online – Feb 1, 2010

What’s this all mean to Gold and Silver?

Free Gold Money Report – James Turk – Feb. 4, 2010

Why is the price dropping?

MineWeb – John Embry – Feb. 3, 2010

Meanwhile there are further reports of a lack of physical supply on the London Bullion Exchange:

GoldenJackass – Jim Willie CB – Feb 3, 2010

Folks, be sure to get physical Gold and Silver!

Mike Maloney recently visited Taiwan for the launch of his book in Mandarin!

Physical Delivery • Stored in a 3rd Party Vault • Precious Metal IRA

U.S. Silver Eagles Canadian Maple Leafs Austrian Philharmonics 1 ounce Rounds 10 ounce Bars 100 ounce Bars

U.S. Gold Eagles Gold Maple Leaf S. African Krugerrands Gold Buffalo 1 ounce Gold Bars 10 ounce Gold Bars 1 Kilo Gold Bars

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Welcome to the Worldwide Fiat Currency Championship:

The Race to Debase

This is the first time in human history this race has occurred on a worldwide scale!!

For the first time in the history of the world all the currencies are fiat!

So who will be crowned champion of the world?

With a 100% win record!

GOLD

AND THE CUSTOMERS GO WILD!!!

You have two choices:

We have chosen which side we are on at Goldsilver.com.

Remember… It’s Fact:

Every currency in the world is fiat or “faith based” meaning it’s worth only the value of the actual paper it is printed on. More people are learning this fact every day, confidence is eroding in the fiat currency system. History proves that for fiat currency… the final value of zero is inevitable!

“The credit boom is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.” – Ludwig Von Mises

The solution to protecting yourself is simple. Secure a Gold and Silver foundation to your wealth. Owning physical Gold and Silver has been very lucrative over the past decade. But don’t take our word for it. The facts below prove that this is a Worldwide Event!

January 1, 2000 -> December 31, 2009

*** If you don’t see your nation’s currency above simply click the following link to perform your calculations -> http://www.xe.com/ict/ ***

Physical Delivery – Stored in a 3rd Party Vault – Precious Metal IRA

U.S. Silver Eagles Canadian Maple Leafs Austrian Philharmonics 1 ounce Rounds 10 ounce Bars 100 ounce Bars

U.S. Gold Eagles Gold Maple Leaf S. African Krugerrands Gold Buffalo 1 ounce Gold Bars 10 ounce Gold Bars 1 Kilo Gold Bars

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