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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 ...
June 21, 2016
George Bush is now supposedly “saving” the GOP from Donald Trump.
Too bad someone couldn’t save the GOP and America from George Bush. ...
June 21, 2016
Some now hail Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the Gutenberg of the New Renaissance.
However, the truth is that Zuckerberg is the one greatest obstructions of the Internet Reformation. ...
June 21, 2016
The truth on a variety of subjects is easily available on the Internet. And that’s probably why despite warmongering efforts of editorial boards like the Post’s, the New Crusade against Islam have yet to fully take hold. ...
June 20, 2016
Two statements issued recently show that Left and Right both expect Hillary to be the next President of the US.
One was a document sent from State Department explaining that targeted military strikes were needed against the Assad government if ISIS were to b ...
June 20, 2016
According to mainstream central banking coverage there are either “good” central bankers or bad one. Central banking itself is simply a given. It exists like sky, earth or water.
It is the central banker himself who can make the difference. ...
June 20, 2016
The Economic Times states that Putin made this comment “Friday during a meeting with representatives of news agencies, including AFP.”
Reuters, as you can see in our initial excerpt, has much the same quote and identifies it as something Putin said "on t ...
June 20, 2016
A recent report from the New York Times points out that the photograph of the atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum “stretching from floor to ceiling” is actually a photo of the Hiroshima firestorm. ...
June 19, 2016
The economy is in a quasi depression, and already the President has been impeached...
The more Brazil struggles to pay for these games, the more alienated many citizens will feel and the worse things will get. ...
June 18, 2016
The Clintons have ties to officials at the most important multinationals, banks and governments.
The couple have used their power and influence to secretly steer US government relationships and resources to those who donated to the Foundation. ...
June 17, 2016
Hillary’s home-based server seems to have been extensively compromised and numerous of her emails, including ones no doubt she wanted destroyed, may soon be revealed.
Wikileaks has already “leaked” Hillary emails in a searchable archive format but foun ...
June 17, 2016
Gold didn’t just have a good week, it’s having a good year.
Gold prices have moved up significantly since May 2014 and gained even more momentum since the beginning of 2016. Gold is the best performing major asset class this year ...
June 16, 2016
Donald Trump has decided to support a bill that prohibits individuals on the terror watch list from buying guns.
Politico suggests that Trump has “flip-flopped” because Hillary is already supporting the bill, which 70 percent of the public also apparent ...
June 16, 2016
This upcoming economic crash is going to be the worst ever. It may wipe out whole countries.
But Janet Yellen is still suggesting that the US economy may somehow improve and necessitate further interest rate hikes. ...
June 16, 2016
China wants to build the biggest supercollider in the world and over in Switzerland, CERN reportedly wants to build a much larger supercollider as well.
We live in an era of Big Science that makes it clear only government and mega-corporations have the where ...
June 15, 2016
There is definitely considerable negativity about central banking in the mainstream media these days.
This is surprising, on the one hand, because central banking provides the foundation of the current economic system, worldwide.
On the other hand, such n ...
June 15, 2016
Trump is supposedly drifting into negative double digits against Hillary and perhaps one of the reasons is that he’s not been blunt enough.
There are plenty of hints that he understands the real problems. But he’s not verbalizing them. He’s using some ...
June 15, 2016
The New York Times has just published an article comparing the Orlando shooting to Hiroshima. The point that is made is one we have discussed recently in these pages in several articles. It again justifies our perception that many modern trends, including incre ...
June 15, 2016
As usual, Monsanto is the center of a lot of attention. Bayer is making a huge bid for the company and Monsanto is trying to reinvent itself as a kind of agricultural data guru. Monsanto is going to combine farming and various kinds of agricultural and climate ...
June 14, 2016
3 Reasons Why Silver Will Rally Higher … Like Warren Buffett, I have a disdain for gold as an investment but remain attracted to silver. For many investors, this appears hypocritical given that both are precious metals with closely correlated prices. Howeve ...
June 14, 2016
Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper ‘dishonest’ and ‘phony’ … Why did Donald Trump revoke The Post’s media credentials? … Donald Trump said Monday that he is pulling The Washington Post’s credentials to cover his events b ...
June 13, 2016
Joseph Grosso is Executive Chairman, CEO & President of a leading junior mining firm in Argentina, Golden Arrow Resources. He has successfully formed strategic alliances and negotiated with mining industry majors such as Barrick, Teck, Newmont, Viceroy (no ...
June 13, 2016
Donald Trump’s scaremongering response to Orlando shooting is the opposite of what America needs … The gunning down of dozens of party-goers in a gay club in Florida showed, he wrote, that he had been ‘right on radical Islamic terrorism̵ ...
June 13, 2016
The memory of the use of the first nuclear bomb that brought the second great global inferno to an end continues to weigh on the collective consciousness despite the passing of more than 71 years since the tragic military intervention that obliterated the civil ...
June 13, 2016
Astronaut takes first step inside International Space Station’s inflatable ‘spare room’ … Bigelow Aerospace developed the first-of-its-kind habitat as part of an $18 million contract with Nasa. The company has an eye on eventually using it ...
