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As a computer security researcher, Steve Manzuik says he's "a little more paranoid" than the average person when it comes to his credit and debit cards. He's familiar enough with ATM skimmers — devices that mimic an ATM's card reader to swipe card data — to say he could probably make one, if he desired.
Would you pay a 23% fee to access your own money? That’s how much, on average, Americans are forking over when they withdraw $20 from an ATM that doesn’t belong to their bank.
As the world collectively lost its bearings this year (more than usual, anyway), a bizarre notion began to seep into the mainstream’s awareness — that inflation is a bad thing for gold.
Jim Rickards first noticed it in September: “Here’s the logic,” he told us, “as best I can make sense of it. Any hint of inflation might give the Fed a green light to raise rates.
