Monetary history

Some people know the story of the Gold Rush from the Charlie Chaplin film, others from TV shows or books of all kinds. At the very least, historians consider this period to be one of the most significant of the 19th century. Both fascinating and structuring, it is particularly revealing of American...

One major phenomenon is often overlooked: the role of debt in the birth of the Revolution of 1789 and the bloody decade that followed. This period marked the end of a long economic cycle. Today's world has many similarities with the French situation at the end of the 18th century.

This article focuses on a complex property of the gold market: timing. The price of gold can sometimes stagnate for more than a decade, while at other times it can rise dramatically. Even so, gold remains an asset that is more difficult to determine by precise financial cycles.

For the past 3 years, we have been faced with the largest monetary injections in history. These liquidity injections are not without consequences for your long-term purchasing power. In this article, we'll look at the reasons for long-term currency devaluation, and at ways of protecting yourself aga...

As the constraints of rationing, loss of purchasing power and taxation of wealth loom large, this situation is reminiscent of the 1930s and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's confiscation of gold.

The history of money is several thousand years old. But do we know its evolution? How was it created? How does it work? Its influence? The questions that revolve around this social link are of little interest to the average person. Yet money structures our economic and political models.