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July 07, 2016
We don’t really believe the top men at the City are concerned about a widening wealth gap.
They are simply taking advantage of an opportunity to further consolidate wealth among a very few. It’s propaganda in other words. A dominant social theme. ...
July 07, 2016
The golden bull must follow its path. Gold and silver both must grow stronger – until finally the buying fever sets junior miners on fire.
Prices will go up - and up - until they cannot. And then the market will implode as it has before. This may take mont ...
July 06, 2016
There are many media outlets and individuals who expected the FBI’s clearance of Hillary, and believe it to be justified.
But there are others – a good many – that believe the US justice system itself has been compromised. ...
July 06, 2016
Ten years ago, or even five, a mention of Austrian economics in the feedback section of a major daily publication would have been most surprising.
But one reason that central banking has come under fire in the 'teen 2000s is because more people are aware of ...
July 06, 2016
Bloomberg believes the gold and silver rally has to do with the uncertainty caused by Brexit. Not so fast.
We’ve pointed out that some of the metals manipulations may have fallen away and that, in any case, the larger positioning of metals in the world eco ...
July 06, 2016
There are ways Donald Trump might be able to win the election even though the electoral map seems to favor Clinton.
Yesterday, we pointed out that the FBI’s declaration of Hillary’s innocence would probably mean that she would win. (See related story, th ...
July 05, 2016
This FBI decision will not just involve a probable Hillary presidential victory, it will also ensure that the sociopolitical instability of the US will grow.
There will be a dramatic expansion of US debt, an explosion of regulatory activity and, most likely, ...
July 05, 2016
There is little about the US government these days that seems to conform to what many Americans actually want – less war, less regulations, less centralization of power.
But this New York Times article is presenting the thesis that Hillary will be forceful ...
July 05, 2016
India’s economic performance was in the hands of one man. Since he has left, India must search out someone else just as competent.
It is a clever equation. The onus is on the man not the structure. ...
July 05, 2016
Guaranteeing minimum quotas of women and children to private prison vendors turns them into human products to ensure that the system remains profitable.
But the human toll is real. ...
July 05, 2016
Grieve urged a constituent to continue to protest and “petition.” However, most of the signatures on a much ballyhooed petition to re-do the referendum turned out to be fake.
Reports are that hackers spammed the petition with millions of signatures from ...
July 04, 2016
Barack Obama himself apparently received communications from Hillary directly and responded. Obama himself, therefore, participated in a security setup that is now seen as potentially unlawful.
If Hillary were indicted, Obama would surely be her first witnes ...
July 04, 2016
Gold and silver are having great runs now that the monetary manipulation has eased a bit.
That’s our take anyway, following Deutsche Bank’s admission of guilt and willingness to testify against other metals manipulators. ...
July 04, 2016
The article adds that “NASA is keeping close tabs on the Ozone hole in the Antarctic.”
If so, and if the hole is naturally occurring and will never “heal,” then NASA should step in and correct the misstatements of Professors Solomon and Morgenstern. ...
July 04, 2016
Presidents always attract these massive biographies. They can focus critically on even minute details. But such books rarely if ever question why a given president should have so much power.
Nor do they note that the power to do "good" things - as they conce ...
July 03, 2016
Despite Hillary's polarizing personality and politics, and her fairly obvious malfeasance, CNN believes she is going to remain a candidate and quite possibly win the election.
Whether purposefully or not, lack of action regarding Hillary will be seen by a te ...
July 03, 2016
We're not sure that Brexit will threaten City business in the long run. Nor is the idea of "remorse" sincere.
The top bankers in our view are going to use Brexit to further a globalist agenda... ...
July 02, 2016
The Brexit Vote and Hillary’s troubles are being broadcast by the mainstream media, which surely means they are thematic elements of a larger narrative.
Usually, in this modern era, reality is exactly the opposite of what’s taking place. ...
July 02, 2016
Usually the mainstream media provides us with a variety of propaganda that distorts the truth.
But there was little in the way of distortion yesterday when gold and silver moved higher convincingly. ...
July 01, 2016
We are told by Andrew Tobias that Hillary was actually the most truthful candidate (of either Party) in the 2016 election season, according to Politifact.
Tobias is both a Democrat and a defender of Hillary Clinton. He’s also a well-known writer who once w ...
July 01, 2016
As communications technology continues to expand, there will doubtless be more and better investigations about nuclear weapons, how effective they are and why they cost so much. Hopefully, they will come from third-party sources.
This hasn't happened yet, bu ...
July 01, 2016
Soros brands Brexit as a “trigger” for an upcoming crisis that includes deflationary trends. The article doesn't describe the deflationary trends, but what Soros is talking about is the lack of progress central banks are having in stimulating economies via ...
July 01, 2016
Brexit reverberations continue to generate calls for more central banking coordination.
Just yesterday, we wrote about Mario Draghi’s demand for more centralization, HERE, and now we seen a Bloomberg article on the same subject. ...
June 30, 2016
Nate Silver is back at it, predicting a Trump defeat. The most famous pollster in America was wrong about Trump numerous times during Trump’s rise to the GOP nomination.
Each time, Silver would predict that Trump was about to fade. But instead Trump would ...
June 30, 2016
How is it that people have been put in jail for conspiring to create monopolies but central banks are exempt?
Here comes Draghi demanding that central banks act together around the world in a disciplined and forceful way. Surely this would create vast econom ...
June 30, 2016
America’s vast corporations are the product of an authoritarian state that has reduced freedom generation after generation at least since the Civil War.
Thomas Jefferson and the founders were so worried about corporate power that they left the supervision ...
June 29, 2016
Trump has been identified as a “nationalist” because of his crusade to “Make America Great Again.”
But essentially, his positions are populist ones. While Hillary champions ways of making the system work more powerfully on behalf the poor and working ...
June 29, 2016
The Guardian newspaper has reported on a survey by a Brisbane-based social media company, Max Kelsen, that shows both Julia Gillard and Hillary Clinton are recipients of major online abuse.
The newspaper also cautions that public figures are generally subjec ...
June 29, 2016
Start with the Bank of England. Governor Mark Carney acted quickly to provide liquidity by injecting £3.1bn into banks just after Brexit.
Nonetheless, the pound dropped hugely and UK equities plunged too. The next possible step is a rate cut but the fallin ...
June 29, 2016
In past articles we’ve pointed out the beginning of a new, elite dominant social theme: globalism versus populism.
Brexit is being positioned as a populist uprising and so is Trump’s campaign. ...
June 28, 2016
In the long-running global war on drugs, arguably no country in the world has suffered more than Colombia, where I have been doing business and living part-time for over 15 years. Violence, poverty, fear, destruction of families and communities, political uphea ...
June 28, 2016
This recent speech by Ms. Clinton was an effort to rectify a growing "trust gap" between her and voters. It was all about acknowledging mistakes - and showing she listened and cared.
But Clinton also blamed external factors. She pointed out that opponents " ...
June 28, 2016
Globalist central bankers want to do the right thing, we read. But they are holding back because of the emotion of the crowd. The populists, in other words, are standing in the way of the globalist saviors... ...
June 27, 2016
Like her husband, Hillary is fond of being portrayed as a policy “wonk.”
It’s hard work of course as “wonks” tend to the engine of legislation. They are not interested in the glamour of government but in using the bureaucracy in creative ways to ...
June 27, 2016
The mainstream media usually doesn’t acknowledge globalism as an issue. Like central banking it is simply asserted as a fact, as natural as the air we breathe.
But now all of a sudden we are finding out it is a policy after all – something made by the ha ...
June 27, 2016
Goldman analyst Jeff Currie told the FT that purchases of gold might better be denominated in pounds or euros than dollars given that most of the Brexit impact will be felt more severely in Europe.
The idea here is that more money will eventually flow into t ...
June 26, 2016
The Economist thinks the victory of Brexit is a tragic split. But they’re wrong. They are also wrong that Brexit is “irreversible.”
Brexit is not a given. And negotiations could take two years or even longer... ...
June 24, 2016
We rejoice in Britain’s sudden freedom from the corrupt and authoritarian EU. We’re happy David Cameron is leaving. He did his best to start wars and shut down free speech, especially when it came to the Internet.
But we can’t believe it’s that simpl ...
June 24, 2016
According to Foreign Policy, Robert Kagan, co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, is going to speak at Hillary's fundraiser in DC’s Logan Circle neighborhood, July 21.
Foreign Policy states that this marks a shift in the Clinton campaign b ...
June 24, 2016
CNN has now weighed in with an analysis of Trump’s Wednesday speech acknowledging its emotional appeal and criticizing Hillary for apparent ethical lapses.
This is a much more balanced analysis of Trump's speech than the one we analyzed yesterday from the ...
June 24, 2016
Now here’s an interesting reversal. A Bloomberg editorial that blows up a powerful dominant social theme – the competence of experts.
Experts are central to the evolution of the modern, globalist state. The technocrat is the white knight of the modern ag ...
June 23, 2016
Western nations-- particularly the US and UK-- have been champions of ‘democracy’ around the world (though they typically mean ‘republic’).
Now, today the voters of the United Kingdom go to the polls to decide whether or not their country will remain ...
June 23, 2016
As with a good movie, Trump isn't interested in the plot so much as the feeling.
And his latest speech proved particularly effective because it portrayed Hillary’s larger political philosophy... ...
June 23, 2016
Federal Reserve stress tests for banks are a fantasy.
They don’t address contagion, for one thing. Contagion makes everything much worse... ...
June 23, 2016
"The Federal Reserve Says U.S. Stocks Are Overpriced … It’s the starkest warning yet under Chair Janet Yellen."
It's true of course. But no doubt she has an ulterior motive for mentioning it... ...
June 23, 2016
The problem with the Libertarian party is that to be a libertarian means you don’t believe people ought to be forced to behave a certain way.
But government is all about force. ...
June 23, 2016
Something terrible has happened.
The “common wisdom” that people grew up with is fading rapidly.
It's not comfortable or soothing. It's upsetting and unsettling. ...
June 22, 2016
Here’s a question: Why is the Senate listening to Janet Yellen about the economy? It’s like the blind leading the blind.
The Senate has no idea what’s going on with the economy. Neither does Yellen. ...
June 22, 2016
Every time a law is passed or a regulation is applied, it diminishes prosperity for some at the expense of others. Voluntary competition and cooperation are building blocks of wealth.
Unfortunately, in the US today, major politicians don’t recognize any of ...
June 22, 2016
The head of the United Nations’ International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is facing charges in France for embezzlement. If found guilty, she could go to prison for ten years.
According to an insightful commenter who wrote to us last night, the Lagard ...
