At The Velvet Rocket we are often struck by the transient nature of life. How, sooner or later, everything you care about will be taken away from you. By how quickly an ordinary day can turn into an extraordinary one… Under no circumstances is this driven home more starkly than when such an event touches … Continue reading
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Gold Standard
This one’s primarily for you, Sienna, but in this week of great turmoil in the financial markets, it bears reading by us all… Today we are switching things up a bit with a guest essay: ******************************** “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There … Continue reading
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