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Retirees are choosing walkable climate-resilient cities
“Yahoo Finance is reporting that more retirees are seeking to settle down in, wait for it, New York City because it checks off a lot of boxes. It's a sociable city. It's walkable. And this is really important and increasingly becoming important. It's climate change resistant for now.”
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Airlines often comp items during major delays
“US airlines aren't required to give you anything if you're stuck at the airport. But behind the scenes, crews often have the power to comp things. We got lucky because we didn't even ask and the crew was so nice to just comp us in the future, you should just ask. And I think in general, they'll be accommodating.”
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Gold functions as a hedge not growth
“And that's how gold behaves. It reacts to uncertainty, to geopolitical stress, to fears about inflation and global stability. One headline about peace talks, prices move. Another about conflict or supply disruption. Price of gold moves again. And so it's not a steady price point. And that's why I say gold is not a growth strategy.”
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Social media scholarship advice is frequently fraudulent
“Students are looking for college scholarships on social media sites. They're trusting their friends' advice more than financial advisors, that's according to a new survey. And that gets a little tricky, right? Because there are a lot of scams out there. Money deals on TikTok and Instagram, I don't have to tell you, usually, scams.”
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Local organizations provide legitimate college scholarship opportunities
“Some sites where you can find scholarships directly, Scholarships360, scholarships.com, FastWeb, also your local bank, Rotary Clubs, Community Foundations, your high school, your college financial aid office, employers, local businesses, these are all legit places to find and apply for scholarships.”
HEDGE WITH GOLD
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“But copper is inconvenient for large value or significant value transactions. Copper is not a very, it's abundant, it's not very valuable. People had to carry around large numbers of copper coins on a necklace around their neck or in their pockets. They needed something of higher value. And silver was convenient for regular commercial transactions in China.”
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Central banks are shifting reserves from dollars to gold
“I think we are seeing the beginnings of the decline of the dollar as a global currency, as central banks are trying to hedge their bets, moving out of dollar, US treasury securities into gold and other non-traditional reserve currencies.”
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Spanish pieces of eight were the first global currency
“Spanish silver got everywhere. And as you say, it was, in a sense, the first true global currency in that earlier international currencies like the Dutch gilder, they got to Asia via the Dutch East India Company... but they never got to Latin America. Spanish silver got everywhere.”
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Currency decline accelerates like an iceberg melting and calving
“The analogy I sometimes use is like an iceberg, which melts very slowly until a whole chunk, big chunks, calve off all at once. So that's kind of the scenario I imagine.”
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China adopted silver for higher value transaction convenience
“But copper is inconvenient for large value or significant value transactions. Copper is not a very, it's abundant, it's not very valuable. People had to carry around large numbers of copper coins on a necklace around their neck or in their pockets. They needed something of higher value. And silver was convenient for regular commercial transactions in China.”
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Maintaining coin purity ensured Spanish silver's long-term dominance
“By and large, this process worked well, just like the comptroller of the currency keeps careful watch on the quality of the banknotes that are printed in the United States today. The Spanish crown had a mechanism... the quality of the coin was maintained for three centuries and more. And that's what made for its wide acceptance.”
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