Tag Archives: Money

Silver price breaks free? Passes $66/ounce?

Posted on December 22, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent shared that tidbit in the headline with us here at The Price of Liberty. Here are some thoughts, and not necessarily good ones. We’ve often discussed the relative worthlessness of the modern so-called “US dollar.” We have long … Continue reading →

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“Real money” or just more fake money?

Posted on March 21, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Robert Koasawli is famous for his statement, “Silver and gold are God’s money. Everything else is fake.” The folks over at Paradigm put this chart out a couple of days ago: Gold is more than $3000/ounce. Remember that until 1934 … Continue reading →

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It’s only money…

Posted on February 18, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

… and fake money, at that. Right? This chart from nationaldebtclock.com sends shudders of fear through our bodies. The website has recently added the DOGE clock; tracking the money that DOGE has proposed striking from the FedGov budget. Most of … Continue reading →

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“Not worth a dollar”

Posted on October 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Supposedly, annual inflation, August 2021 to August 2022, was a “mere” 8.3% here in the States. Don’t believe it. Ignoring sales prices, food prices in most places have sometimes doubled in the last year: for example, at a Safeway in … Continue reading →

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Politics 2022 – Why governments want inflation

Posted on September 23, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

On Wednesday, as expected and as we were warned dozens if not hundreds of times, the Fed raised interest rates. While we here at TPOL don’t pretend to understand the reasoning – or even why the Fed should have any … Continue reading →

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“Biden bucks” and liberty’s loss

Posted on September 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Our beloved leader-in-chief, dear, dear Uncle Joe, has decided and announced he is forgiving $10,000 or $20,000 (I admit to being confused which) of student loan debt for each individual borrower. I guess it depends on the particular type of … Continue reading →

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Fake money

Posted on August 29, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Not the stuff in the picture (courtesy the folks at Consilience LLC and Addison Wiggins) – that’s play money. No, we are talking about the product of the world’s (and history’s) biggest counterfeiter: the FedGov itself. Well, technically, the Federal … Continue reading →

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Government evils: Inflation

Posted on August 4, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

What a couple of years! Ouch. Even though prices are (slowly) dropping. Even the Rally in the Black Hills is showing signs of a drop in attendance and not just because it isn’t a zero- or five-year. Five-dollar Diesel and … Continue reading →

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Our booming economy – take our poll now!

Posted on April 20, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

(Warning – it is a fake poll, but tell us here at The Price of Liberty anyway!) (Shadow Statistics claim that the REAL rate (as once measured) is three times this amount right now.) Who is to blame for galloping … Continue reading →

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End of the petrodollar? Return of the gold standard?

Posted on April 15, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Many lovers of liberty – anarchists and even minarchists, have long called for a return to a gold standard. Completely gone since Tricky Dick killed it in 1973 on an American and worldwide basis, most people have assumed it would … Continue reading →

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