Last week, I had an exclusive talk with legendary investor Jim Rogers. Not only did Jim Rogers predict several recessions and stock market crashes correctly, he also recommended everyone to invest in gold in 1999, just before embarking upon one of his trips around the world that eventually got him into the Guinness Book of World Records. Later, he would repeat his advice in his book “Hot Commodities: How The Next Bull Market in Commodities Can”, which was published in 2004, when the gold

“Helicopter money” once started as a scientific aid. It was part of a thought experiment, for monetary economists to understand the consequences of changes in the supply of money. Assume, as the experiment would say, that central banks instead of buying bonds (with which they increase the monetary base), would throw money out of helicopters, giving every citizen instantly an x amount of additional money? What would that do to prices? In contrast, today we are discussing helicopter money as

0.25 percent. That is where the official rate stood before the April-meeting and that is exactly where it stands now, two weeks after the meeting. When you carefully read the Fed’s press release of the April-meeting, you can almost see the Fed struggle. What do I mean?