Princeton Professor Outrages Establishment
This article originally appeared on LewRockwell.com In Berlin on Christmas Day in 1989, Leonard Bernstein conducted Ode to Freedom Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Official Concert of the Fall of the Berlin...
View ArticleAdopt A Gold-Backed Dollar? This Is What Happened The Last Time The World Tried.
“The dollar and gold are synonymous,” Harry Dexter White, the architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system, told Congress in 1945. “There is no likelihood that . . . the United States...
View ArticleMarx & Markets
Warren Buffet famously said during the 1990s dot-com bubble that he did not invest in technology because he did not understand it. Although he subsequently took a meaningful stake in IBM (which may...
View ArticleWhy the Arabs Don’t Want us In Syria
Written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Originally appeared on Politico.eu. In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and...
View ArticlePrepare For A Liquidity Crisis With New SEC Rules For Money Market
By Steen Jakobsen from Saxo Bank: This is VERY important to know and understand – there are 2.7 trillion US$ in money market fund in the US. In the past these were mainly going to “Prime funds” which...
View ArticleWhen Will Helicopter Money Take Off? Consequences For Markets?
The quarterly Advisory Board organized by Incrementum Liechtenstein took place recently, and, as usual, the discussion was focused on challenging the consensus view. Part of the discussion was centered...
View ArticleThe Eight Marks of Fascist Policy
The most definitive study on fascism written in these years was As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn. Flynn was a journalist and scholar of a liberal spirit who had written a number of best-selling books...
View ArticleDeutsche Boerse Responds To Deutsche Bank’s Failure To Deliver Physical Gold
By Zerohedge: In the latest stunning development involving a documented failure of a bank to deliver physical gold when demanded, yesterday we reported that according to German website...
View ArticleCentral Bank Interest Rate Policies To Benefit Precious Metals Yet Again
45 years ago, almost to the day, Richard Nixon rocked the global financial system by abandoning the fixed exchange convertibility of gold and the United States dollar. The president justified his 1971...
View ArticleThe Time To Hedge Is Now: Pension Crisis In 2016 And Beyond
Spiraling unfunded liabilities and the looming pension crisis have regularly been making headlines for the better part of 2016, and with good reason. The situation is dire both in the US and in Europe,...
View ArticlePrecious Metals: The Place to Be
Claudio Grass from GlobalGold.com joined Bubba today for an awesome discussion on Gold, the FED and the rest of the nonsense going on globally. Bubba immediately asks Claudio about free markets and...
View ArticleThe Rising Cost of Saying Goodbye to the US
A few weeks ago, the IRS published its quarterly “name and shame” list in theFederal Register. That’s the list federal law requires the agency to maintain of individuals who give up their US...
View ArticleA Swiss-eye View on Global Wealth Protection
This is an interview that the Mountain Vision team conducted with Mr. Frank Suess, CEO and Chairman of BFI Capital Group. Over the last couple of years, we have seen extraordinary policies take effect,...
View ArticleEliminating Paper Money? Not That Fast, The Government Earns Money On Money...
Bloomberg Money just released below interview with Harvard University Professor Ken Rogoff, author of “The Cure of Cash.” Mr. Rogoff propagates “less cash”, not necessarily “no cash.” This is a quote...
View ArticleHave Your Children Seen Your Gold?
We all want our children to grow up investing intelligently, protecting and preserving not only what we have passed on to them, but also what they’ve earned. We know how important having gold and...
View ArticleA ‘Values Clarification’ Regarding The So-Called Real Bills Doctrine
I never write about gold standard money without singing the praises of gold bills. At GSI, this ‘preaching to the choir’ has included remarking on bills’ humane origins, their low entropy, and their...
View ArticleClaudio Grass: We See Already So Many Cracks In The System
Last week, Claudio Grass, Managing Director at Global Gold Switzerland, was interviewed by Bubba over at Libertytalk.fm. The topics in this fascinating interview range from central banking monetary...
View ArticlePacked Lunch: Restaurants’ Struggles Sound The Alarm For The Next Recession
This article originally appeared on Mountain Vision. The restaurant business was one of the few economic sectors to remain relatively unscathed by the 2008 recession. When most investors and business...
View ArticleBill Passed By US Congress Allowing 9/11 Victims’ Families To Sue Saudi Arabia
The US Congress has passed a bill that would allow families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia over the assaults that left almost 3,000 people dead. The House approved a bipartisan...
View ArticleThe US National Debt At A Glance – Infographic
It is normal for countries to owe debt, but there is major reason for concern when looking at today’s debt situation. The numbers are outrageous. It’s hard to believe that the US debt is currently at...
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