The Optimum Quality of Money, or Could Negative Nominal Rates Falsify the...
A short note on the monetary experiment-in-progress. In 1969, perhaps anticipating the era of irredeemable currency, Milton Friedman published “The Optimal Quantity of Money“, a collection of his...
View ArticleGold’s Secular Bull Market Continues – 50 Amazing Charts
Gold has been the most effective financial instrument to hedge against the pressures of inflation and market fluctuations. Many investors consider gold to be an excellent asset for wealth and...
View ArticleYou’ve Got It All Wrong About Donald Trump
It’s precisely BECAUSE Donald Trump has been a bit impulsive, a bit demeaning, sometimes inaccurate, and an alleged misogynist, but has still managed to rattle the cage of those who buy favors from...
View ArticleCETA … Did You See The Fine Print?
In Europe, all that is needed for the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada to come into effect, “provisionally” (in EU double-speak, more or less irrevocably), before being passed...
View ArticleGlobal Gold Outlook Report N° 16 Is Out
The newest edition of the quarterly Outlook Report by Global Gold is out. This 16th edition contains an analysis on gold’s bull market, a typology of market participants and a critical analysis of the...
View ArticleSwitzerland the Most Competitive Nation as per World Economic Forum
Switzerland has been named as the most competitive nation by the Word Economic Forum for the eighth time and warnings have as well been issued that less open trade can prove to be threatening for the...
View ArticleSociety Without the State
OK, this is a pure dose of some libertarian/free enterprise white lightning. It’s hardcore and it will blow the minds of many of our statist friends who visit this site. Personally I find these...
View ArticleWho Is REALLY Behind the EU Migrant Crisis? Join The Conversation.
James joins the Newsbud roundtable to discuss what is being called the ‘worst humanitarian crisis’ of our time. We take a peek behind the curtain to find the root causes for why and how millions of...
View ArticleInclusion of China’s Yuan in SDR – A Threat To The American Monetary Hegemony?
China has contributed considerably to international business in the global economy. China ultimately has got an entry into the elite club of IMF. Now, Yuan is an official member of the basket IMF’s...
View ArticleSwitzerland Holds The Fort: The Most Economically Free Nation in Europe
“There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.” Ludwig von Mises firmly asserted that the most critical ingredient for a...
View Article“The New Normal”: When All Else Fails, Fed Blames Slow Growth on Birth Rates
Over the past several years, widespread debate over the state of the US economy has continued, with a host of different explanations being used to justify the stubbornly sluggish growth rate. Many...
View ArticleUBS Whistleblower Exposes ‘Political Prostitution’ All The Way up to...
UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, is facing embarrassment over fresh revelations going back to the tax investigation that led to the collapse of Swiss banking secrecy. Two significant events are...
View ArticleTrump & The Markets the Next 4 Years
President-elect Donald Trump’s White House victory was a surprise, and so is the ripping sell-off in global bond markets, which has quickly driven US interest rates to the highest levels in a year. The...
View ArticleEscaping The Soulless Machine
By Steen Jakobsen. This wasn’t Trump’s victory, but rather Clinton’s loss. At the risk of being termed both Putin-friendly and a Trump supporter, I have decided to write my own personal post-mortem...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Reveals Europe’s Failure To Learn Lessons From The Financial...
Deutsche Bank is again in trouble less than a decade after the financial crisis hit the global economy. There are speculations amongst investors whether German Government would come to the rescue of...
View ArticleGettysburg Address: Still Balderdash After 150 Years
I am mystified by all the whooping on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Most of the commentators seem to believe that Lincoln was an honest man touting the highest ideals. Massachusetts...
View ArticleSpeculators Are Finally Bailing Out Of Gold – And That’s A Good Thing
All this talk of massive new infrastructure spending financed with a tsunami of freshly-minted currency should be lighting a fire under gold. That it hasn’t is a testament to how out-of-whack the...
View ArticleThe Spreading Bondfire and the Rising Price of Gold
Today’s rising interest rates and trillion-dollar losses in global bond markets are prelude to what is to come, i.e. rising inflation with higher interest rates ending in the bursting of the global...
View Article5 Tips For Rock Solid Wealth Protection In 2017
We’re nearing the end of a wild year: In the financial world, a number of global events have turned 2016 into an unpredictable rollercoaster ride. The underlying forces and external pressures that have...
View ArticleTrump Gives Hillary a Get Out of Jail Free Card. Or Does He?
One news headline, that has many of those who supported Trump throughout his candidacy pulling their hair out in rage this weekend, is the one that stated Trump would not prosecute Hillary Clinton for...
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