Frank Holmes: Last week was a challenging one for gold investors. Gold prices have been on the downside. Although the yellow metal has been on a spectacular 11-year bull run, recent strength in the economy has some thinking gold’s heyday is over.  Read more…

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Michael Snyder:  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about.  If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy.  Read more…

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