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MacG - like much economic activity in industrial society, gold mining is very damaging. If I did 'nothing' with my money and left it sitting in a bank account, the bank would use my money to invest in all sorts of damaging activities and give me a derisory rate of interest to thank me for this. So t...

At the moment, democracy is universally seen as a good thing. This has not historically been the case. Given the nature of historical cycles, democracy will certainly become less fashionable again in the future. Many of the ancient Greek cities allied with Athens had stronger democracies than we hav...

I've bought and sold gold a couple of times using an online company which stores it in a vault. I don't anticipate a total collapse of civilisation as oil runs out. Painful adaption but we managed without oil for most of history and we will manage again. Therefore, I reckon that gold stored via a co...

For god sake do not buy anything now, we are the top of the market!! Chris (CLV101) sent me a link to UKhousingmarketcrash.com (or something like that) and it had a graph which summed it up perfectly. Here it is: http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/ Thanks for the link. It's certainly enough to put me...

I'll soon be a position where I can start looking to getting on the housing ladder.

If peak oil is imminent, how is this likely to affect both the value of property, and interest rates?

Am I better off sticking with rental, or taking the plunge?

I've been aware of the peak oil issue for about a year now and I want to become more active spreading the word about it. I'm planning to organise a meeting locally and would appreciate ideas on the types of places to publicise this. I'm from a green background, but wondered about the backgrounds of ...

I'm in York and wondered how many others are nearby?