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Guest Post by Nick Giambruno via internationalman.com “You have the watches, but we have the time.” The Taliban often referred to this old Afghan saying when discussing their fight against the Americans. Ultimately, they were proven correct. After almost two decades of conflict, an insurgent army from one of the world’s poorest nations inflicted a …
Guest Post by Nick Giambruno via internationalman.com In the age of fiat currency, the distinct concepts of saving and investing have become conflated and confused. Saving is producing more than you consume and then setting it the difference aside. Investing is allocating capital to a productive business to create more wealth. Investing has more risk—and …
Guest Post from Nick Giambruno via internationalman.com International Man: For over 2,500 years, gold has been mankind’s most enduring money. However, with the emergence of Bitcoin there is a new hard money option. How do you see the two as governments worldwide continue to engage in rampant currency debasement and are rolling out central bank digital …