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If I ask you what is different today than a year ago one of your first answers would undoubtedly be the economy. A year ago, while I was watching stock prices give hints that there was some sort of trouble ahead and telling me to back my investments out into more conservative safe havens, most [...]

Since 1971, U.S. citizens have been able to utilize Federal Reserve Notes as the only form of money and for the first time had no currency with any gold or silver backing.
This is where you get the saying that U.S. dollars are backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. Government. In other [...]