Originally Posted by tom3k

its no secret that the banking cartel of the united states and europe has lowered interest rates to an unprecedented level to try and convince citizens not to save but rather spend and borrow to further prop up what is a flawed and clearly over leveraged economic system.

that being said, you probably want to look at countries with higher interest rates.

anz has a AUD based fixed deposit product that earns 4.5% on deposits of 100k AUD and over.

a HKD based product is another viable option.

if your horizon is 2 or more years, just buy bullion. you cannot go wrong.

remember, in inflation adjusted terms, gold is only at 40% of its all time high of the early 80s.

and no matter what the blatantly deceiving reports of inflation spewed out by the lovely folks at the federal reserve say... inflation is not coming........ its already here.

.....you think conversions are low now..... just wait until people have a hard(er?) time paying for bread let alone wasting money on porn ;)