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People are Dismissing a Potential BRICS Currency too Quickly

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This is an excerpt from the DKI July letter:   There’s a big argument happening in the financial community right now regarding the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are expanding their coalition which now includes more than half the population of … Read more

The Reserve Currency Status is Going to Be a Problem

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This post originally appeared on April 24, 2023. Introduction: DKI has been writing about the danger to the dollar as the world’s reserve currency for over a year and on more than a dozen occasions. From a piece we published earlier this month: Most notably, I gave an hour-long lecture at the Institute for World … Read more

DKI Interviewed at the Institute for World Politics on Anti-Russia Sanctions

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Gary Brode, Founder of Deep Knowledge Investing, discusses “The Strategic and Economic Implications of Anti-Russian Sanctions,” as well as how U.S. policy is failing to protect the dollar’s reserve currency status and its effect on American consumers. This event took place on June 29, 2022 as a part of The Institute of World Politics’ lecture … Read more

Invested.dk Interviews DKI on Oil, Gold, Fx, and Portfolio Hedging

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My Ravn of Invested.dk interviews Gary Brode of Deep Knowledge Investing on oil, gold, currency, and portfolio hedging.  We’d like to thank My, the Invested.dk community, and our Norwegian friends who joined us for this interesting webinar on current market issues.

More Ineffective Russian Sanctions

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Back in April, we wrote that, “our wish for the Ukrainian people is for peace, prosperity, and self-determination.”  We also wrote that the existing anti-Russian sanctions were ineffective, were reducing the value of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and are hurting American citizens.  Today, Barron’s reported the G-7 was adding to the sanctions … Read more

Special Guest Post – How the Petrodollar System Restored, Then Ruined, America’s Economy

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Tree of Woe does the kind of deep-dive analysis that gets our attention here at Deep Knowledge Investing, and also has the funniest subscription page I’ve ever seen actually offering “moments of true woe and deep despair”.  The recent “Running on Empty” series exploring the origins and effect of the petrodollar system is the best … Read more

The Depth Report – A Basic Guide to Hedging for the Amateur/Intermediate Investor

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Overview: We’ve been getting a lot of important questions recently from amateur investors regarding some of the more advanced topics we discuss at Deep Knowledge Investing.  Many people have been taught about things like diversification and dollar cost averaging, but don’t really understand things like hedging, offsetting different kinds of risk, or shorting stocks.  That’s … Read more