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March 02, 2014
Prohibition is the major cause of crime. There are the crimes associated with buying and selling prohibited products like heroin and services like prostitution. Then there are crimes and violence associated with prohibition like those related to street gangs an ...
February 23, 2014
I am inclined to believe the only formal economics taught in the past 80 years in the U.S. of any use were the "home economics" courses taught to high school girls many moons ago. I did not receive such training, but the Austrian economists are the only school ...
February 16, 2014
There can be little doubt that Friedrich A. Hayek was one of the most profound and important economists of the 20th century. In my humble opinion, I consider Mises and Hayek to be the two greatest economists of our time. Whether as a monetary and business cycle ...
February 09, 2014
Jeffrey Tang: China is heading for major restructuring. The twin engines of growth, export and construction, have both hit the wall. When major internal events happen, it will be so overwhelming that no external events will be able to distract attention. The ec ...
February 02, 2014
Emerging markets can involve public markets. But there are other ways of investing in these markets including private placements and private investing generally. These are fringe investments with the capacity for significant rewards but also large risks. ... Ch ...
January 27, 2014
Daily Bell: David Cameron has been dismissive of UKIP. Is he right to be or wrong? Nigel Farage: He may be being dismissive but he is doing his best to copy us! Even our energy policy, in support of fracking, has now been aped by the Conservative Party. From Sy ...
January 26, 2014
Tibor Machan: Ethical behavior or conduct is whatever accords with principles that people ought to follow, identified within the most sensible, rational school of morality or ethics. So, for instance, being honest or prudent, or generous or courageous would all ...
January 19, 2014
I think Obamacare is doing exactly what we free-market advocates predicted, that there were bound to be numerous problems. I think the website rollout problems are actually the least of the problems because they are potentially fixable. You can fix a website. W ...
January 12, 2014
As far as I am concerned, "Austrian free-market thinking" is simply common sense – it takes years of indoctrination to believe that you can get something for nothing. When I happened upon the teachings of the Austrian School I came to the understanding that I ...
January 05, 2014
I provide analytical and research services to the fund, and my partners at Spartan in Canada manage the fund. Based on Austrian business cycle theory, we think that fallout from a Canadian credit and housing correction could have far-reaching negative repercuss ...
December 29, 2013
For the most part, bitcoin is not anonymous to begin with. That's kind of a myth. In the past, there has been research into tracking micro transactions and you can pretty much figure out the user if you track enough of them. There will always be dark wallets an ...
December 22, 2013
There are generally three basic farming methods: green, organic and no-till. The green farming revolution lasted from the 1940s until today, but gradually it has become less effective, producing diminishing returns as the various chemicals and pesticides have m ...
December 15, 2013
There are so many issues, so many fires raging, that we're kind of like a fire brigade. We've only got a limited amount of water and we have to decide which fires we are going to throw the water on. We're running around and somebody says, "This fire over here i ...
December 08, 2013
Thomas D. Conrad: The petrodollar was viable only because Saudi Arabia was the dominant oil producer and could insist that other countries pay for oil only in US dollars. Lately, the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and especially China – have made st ...
December 01, 2013
Stocks are bullish and bonds are bearish. The US dollar is resuming its bear market decline and the global currencies are headed higher. The metals and their shares are bombed out, still vulnerable and near their lows, and commodities are bearish. We are invest ...
November 17, 2013
It looks as though gold's been correcting for some time. It seems to have been making a bottom over the last year. It is making new lows and it seems to be making a bottom. All markets do have corrections along their way and the stock market, as you probably re ...
November 10, 2013
First, investors need to stop watching the Wall Street propaganda channels commonly known as Fox Business and CNBC. This is like trying to learn about true love and healthy relationships on a porn channel. Second, as much as Wall Street and the US insurance car ...
November 03, 2013
It's not only the US; it's the entire world. In the next Trends Journal in the "Epiphany" piece that I'm doing I've come up with the epiphany that this is not globalization; it's multinationalization. What we're looking at is a corporate takeover of such great ...
October 27, 2013
Antal Fekete: The liquidity trap is claptrap invented by Keynes. If the Fed is trying to fend off deflation, then it is using counter-productive means to achieve its ends. Paradoxically, ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) has the effect of destroying capital. It ...
October 20, 2013
James Jaeger: Previously we released a movie called FIAT EMPIRE – Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution. That movie was a primer on the "power of the purse." MOLON LABE – How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom is a primer on ...
October 13, 2013
We thank Catherine Austin Fitts for this thoughtful interview. From our perspective, her interest in the JOBS Act and crowdfunding is especially significant. The JOBS Act is important in terms of what is going to come next from an industrial standpoint. For dec ...
October 06, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to publish this exclusive interview with Dr. Tibor Machan. What comes through in this interview is Tibor’s optimism regarding the health or renewal of freedom in the West despite the many factors that seem to be mitigating in Europe ...
July 14, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Ben Swann. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: You covered the 2012 Republican presidential primary and began to confront the problems in the American electoral process, the stranglehold of America's ...
July 07, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with James Jaeger. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: You've been tracking the Snowden affair. Give us your take. James Jaeger: This exercise gives everyone the opportunity to really see who is who on the ...
June 30, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Nelson Hultberg. Daily Bell: Tell us about your book's title, The Golden Mean, what it refers to and why it is so important for freedom. Nelson Hultberg: The Golden Mean is Aristotle's famous "d ...
June 23, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Chris Becker. Introduction: Chris Becker is an economic strategist at ETM Analytics, an economic and investment consultancy based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently heads up ETM's Afric ...
June 16, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Richard Ebeling. Daily Bell: It seems like a symptom of a larger dysfunction. You wrote an article recently implying the US was slipping into fascism. Is that a present danger, in your view? Ric ...
June 09, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Mark Skousen. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: What kind of financial workshops might take place at FreedomFest? Mark Skousen: We offer a full 3-day investment seminar at FreedomFest, with top expe ...
June 02, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas DiLorenzo. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: Put Lincoln in context. Why is continued mythology so important to the current power structure of the Anglosphere? Thomas DiLorenzo: The state can ...
May 26, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Andy Hoffman. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: Is gold finished as a wise investment? Andy Hoffman: I have never considered my PHYSICAL gold and silver (all I own) to be "investments." They are MON ...
May 19, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Doug Casey. Here's a snippet:
Daily Bell: Nice to speak with you again. Let's jump right in. What's going on with gold? Why are mining stocks down? Doug Casey: I'm not concerned about gold bei ...
May 12, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to publish this exclusive interview with Gerald Celente. Daily Bell: Why is the West in such bad shape? Gerald Celente: Because a lot of stupid people are running it and the corruption is flagrant, and in front of everybody's eyes. How ...
May 05, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Antal Fekete. Here's a snippet. Daily Bell: Where is the price of gold headed from here? Antal Fekete: The price of gold is headed for extinction. I for one don't believe that the price of gold ...
April 28, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Dr. Lawrence Parks. Here's a snippet: Daily Bell: So what you seem to be saying, Larry, is that the Constitution has been usurped in order to facilitate what is clearly a fraud on the people wit ...
April 21, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Hugo Salinas Price. Daily Bell: What changes do you see in the world today? Are they positive? Hugo Salinas Price: I think I see a growing consciousness that the world's monetary system is not w ...
April 14, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with John Browne. Here's a snippet: Daily Bell: Would you say there is a freedom movement beginning in the UK or are people still confused about what's going on? John Browne: I think people are confu ...
April 07, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present another exclusive interivew with Richard Maybury. Here's a brief snippet: Daily Bell: So you are saying this vast collection of crooks and tyrants in the Mideast and elsewhere became the US Empire. Richard Maybury: Yes. And ...
March 31, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Douglas Bell. Introduction: Doug Bell grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Wesleyan University. After nearly a decade as an industrial designer and project manager in a professional educati ...
March 24, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Daniel Mitchell. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Now you deal with the flat tax and international tax competition. Give us a sense of your thinking on these issues. Dan Mitchell: The simples ...
March 17, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Wendy McElroy. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Where do you stand on issues such as gay marriage? Is it important for the state to sanction marriage? Wendy McElroy: The first thing to note a ...
March 10, 2013
The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present another interview with well-known libertarian philosopher Tibor R. Machan. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Our theme for this interview is the progress of freedom in the Internet era – within the contex ...
March 03, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Nigel Farage. Daily Bell: What is your feeling about the EU? Can you sum it up please? Nigel Farage: Like Communism, it is a good idea that has gone badly wrong. The Euro will endure a slow, lin ...
February 24, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robert Wenzel. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Has libertarianism and Austrian free-market thinking advanced in the past ten years as a result of the Internet? Robert Wenzel: Very much so. T ...
February 17, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Edward Karr. Daily Bell: It's not always easy to find opportunities that support an entrepreneurial society and generate significant revenue as well ... Edward Karr: This is true, unfortunately. ...
February 10, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Edwin Vieira, Jr. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Thanks for sitting down with us again. Let's jump right in with a discussion of your new book, The Sword and Sovereignty. Give us a synopsis ...
February 03, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: How did you become such a global warming skeptic? Your critics say you are irresponsible for advocating your positions. Are you? Fred Sing ...
January 27, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Peter Schiff. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Are you still bearish on the dollar and bullish on investment in tangible assets? Peter Schiff: Oh, very much so. Everything that's happening ju ...
January 20, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Andy Hoffman. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: Do you still think the world will run out of gold? Andy Hoffman: Just like "peak oil" and other "peak" commodity analyses, the "peak gold" theor ...
January 13, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Terry Coxon. Daily Bell: Glad to speak with you again. Let's jump right in. You've been speaking out for freedom and free markets for decades. Yet things seem to be getting worse. Why is that? T ...
January 06, 2013
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with James Jaeger. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: The Internet continues to make distribution progress against Hollywood. Explain how that's working. James Jaeger: The movie addict can now get 1 ...
