Japanese Investors Flocking To Switzerland To Buy And Store Gold
Investors worldwide are buying gold. No surprise, as portfolios are seriously damaged given the bloodbath created in broad markets in the first months of 2016. Since February of 2016, U.S.-based funds...
View ArticleThe Exceptional Tenth Amendment and Its Exception
by Matt Erickson from www.PatriotCorps.org The last of the Amendments of the Bill of Rights, the Tenth, is as exceptional as the others, declaring: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the...
View ArticleFeatured Video: Thoughts From A Lifetime Hero Of Liberty
This video is a MUST LISTEN. It highlights great thoughts from a great mind: Dr. Ron Paul. “Proclaim Liberty Throughout The Land …” is full of wisdom from a hero of liberty and freedom. Dr. Paul has...
View ArticleHow George Soros Singlehandedly Created the European Refugee Crisis and Why
By David Galland and Stephen McBride, Garret/Galland Research The 85-year-old political activist and philanthropist hit the headlines post-Brexit saying the event had “unleashed” a financial-market...
View ArticleGold Has No Value
Some people object to the gold standard because gold has no intrinsic value. An example of a person expressing this notion is Richard Cook in We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform (Aurora,...
View ArticleUkraine, the EU and Russia
Many years ago I sat through the most fascinating lectures on Soviet studies delivered by RMA Sandhurst professor Chris Donnelly. In those far off days as a subaltern, I used to peer through the wire...
View ArticleCasino World
In my last article ‘Costs of Compliance’, I wrote about the Mengerian concept of ‘Marginalism’ particularly as it applies to the Marginal Productivity of Labor. Specifically, how this margin is...
View ArticleTax Army Larger than U.S. Army
The Office of Management and Budget has released new data on the amount of time Americans spend complying with the federal tax code. Tax Foundation summarizes the data here. Individuals and businesses...
View ArticleCentral Bank Digital Currency: The End Of Monetary Policy As We Know It?
Central banks (CBs) have long issued paper currency. The development of Bitcoin and other private digital currencies has provided them with the technological means to issue their own digital currency....
View ArticleOne In Six Prefer Gold In 2016 As Long Term Investments
According to a recent Bankrate survey, one in six investors prefer gold investments as the best asset to invest their money in 2016 if they would not need for at least 10 years. That is remarkable, as...
View ArticleWar On Cash
When the term first made it into the mainstream media, about 6 years ago, to describe the rise of anti-cash regulations, it was hard to predict the international snowballing effect that would today...
View Article2016 Is The First Year Of Peak Gold
Gold mining and discovery has peaked last year, according to experts. ‘Peak gold’ is the term used to indicate that the ‘golden years’ of gold mining have been reached. Going forward, in 2016 and...
View ArticleBlockchain Can Bring the Unbanked into the Global Economy
Many banks and financial entities envision the blockchain as delivering value to their customers in the form of reduced fees, faster funds transfers and simplified processes. Much less heralded, but...
View ArticleEU Banking Crisis 2016 Set To Send Shockwaves Across The Economy
This article was originally published on Mountain Vision: The banking sector is not in a good shape in 2016, and that is probably a huge understatement. Just seconds ago, we read this excellent quote...
View ArticleWhy The Fed’s Thinking Of Natural Rate Of Interest Is Wrong
There have been some conflicting issues with reference to the actual meaning of natural rate of interest according to some scholars and how our Fed officials are explaining it. This is well documented...
View ArticleDoes The Precious Metal Market Need Another Derivatives Exchange?
Precious metals have significantly outperformed all other asset classes with year to date gains of 44% in Silver, 31% in Platinum, 28% in Palladium, and 26% in Gold. 2016 marks the highest recorded...
View ArticleWill Our System Fail Like The Soviet Union?
THE global financial system has been hijacked by an “unelected dictatorship” of communist central bankers who are steering the world towards a Soviet-style collapse of epic proportions. No, it’s not...
View ArticleMonetary Exhaustion Means Rising Gold Prices
AROUND mid-April, when the price of gold was still about US$1,290, I made a contrarian projection that gold had a bright, though bumpy future. Since then, gold price has climbed to US$1,365. In fact,...
View ArticleTime To Stop The Tail Wagging The Dog
In my last articles we dug into the technicalities of Mengerian ‘Marginalism’. We looked at the marginal productivity of labor, and the marginal productivity of capital; both topics important to an...
View ArticleWho Profited From the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks
August 24, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – This week marks the first anniversary of the 2015 Greek debt crisis, the third in that country’s recent history since 2010. Last Aug. 20-21, 2015, the...
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