Hard asset stocks are a convenient way to get exposure to the underlying asset and can be either defensive or a great speculation. What you are looking for are equities that own a lot of tangible assets and whose valuation is primarily composed of that hard asset exposure. This is significantly different from something like […]
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A financial crisis caused the French Revolution when the debt laden state, in political gridlock, abandoned sound money for one of the world’s most destructive paper money experiments. This act triggered a chain of events that unleashed revolutionary forces that led to the downfall of the monarchy and a complete restructuring of French society and
In 1992, hyperinflation in Russia peaked at 2,318%. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the successor state of Russia was in an economic shambles. In 1985 the Soviet Union had been a global superpower, second only to the United States. Since 1917 she had embarked on a unique path, with a command economy based
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The Weimar hyperinflation of 1923 has become the poster child for hyperinflation horror stories. It was one of the world’s worst periods of hyperinflation and unleashed financial, political and social chaos on the German nation. It resulted in the initial crash and subsequent speculative bubble in the stock market, the destruction of the currency and
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