A Good Time To Be Buying Gold
By Richard Mills.
There’s a lot going on in the world – from Trump being elected in the U.S. to turmoil in the middle east, the China Sea and Turkey, Russia is flexing it’s still considerable might, North Korea’s [...]
The Revolution Of The Deplorables
By Barry Ferguson.
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Dr. Martin Luther King
Amen.
Unfortunately, we live in an age of profound ignorance [...]
Modi Heats Up Indian War Against Cash
By Jeff Berwick.
The battle for a cash-only world is getting hotter. The latest battlefront? India.The latest rupee news? Outrageous.
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi – beloved of Western elites for a variety of reasons – [...]
Markets Present Chaos
By Paul Nolte.
Our long national nightmare is over.” Gerald Ford would be incredulous to witness this year’s election efforts. It is not certain that come Wednesday morning, that it will be over. While the markets have declined [...]
Bitcoin Soars On Its Eighth Birthday
By Jeff Berwick.
As of yesterday it was eight years to the day since Bitcoin’s initial white paper was posted to the internet.
And what a birthday party it had, soaring from $614 on October 1st to around $728 today with gold and [...]
Portuguese Gold Mining Operations in Brazil
By: Donna Welles
Portugal has reported a diminishing net trade deficit in recent years. It is possible that wealth from gold mines in Brazil has helped the Portuguese economy to balance its net trade deficit. The price of gold is listed by [...]
The Fight Against The North American Union And Globalism Is In Standing Rock
By Jeff Berwick.
If you are one of the few people left watching the mainstream media, you’d think that the only thing currently going on has to do with Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
There is much more going on than that, however. Aside [...]
Latest Update On Brexit: Blair Trying To Mobilize Remain Voters
Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, is calling for a second vote on Brexit. He writes that this can be done by a second vote, a new election or a vote in Parliament. The former Prime Minister is calling upon all remain [...]
The Twists and Turns of the Greenback
By Steve Hanke.
Stability might not be everything, but everything is nothing without stability.
At a monetary conference in Vienna back in 2014, the distinguished Frenchman, friend, and occasional collaborator Jacques de Larosière [...]
Protectionist Creeps
By Otaviano Canuto.
WASHINGTON, DC – Prospects for growth in global trade in 2016 and 2017 have been downgraded again. The World Trade Organization (WTO) nowexpects that trade this year will increase at its slowest pace since the [...]
The IMF Should Have Been Mothballed and Put in a Museum, Long Ago
By Steve Hanke.
The International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.) was unsuccessful in covering up its nefarious activities in Greece, as WikiLeaks uncovered back in April. Later, the I.M.F.’s internal watchdog team released a report [...]
El Salvador and Manufacturing Exports
By: Donna Welles
El Salvador has defaulted on its national currency and now uses instead the United States Dollar. Violence in El Salvador is well documented by the media. El Salvador shares land borders with Honduras and Guatemala [...]
The Golden Age
By Shane Obata.
Some people say that gold is dead. They point to deflationary pressures and a bear market that started back in September of 2011. The bulls have been wrong for years; however, that may be about to change…
At present, [...]
Hillary Clinton Flunks Economics 101
By Richard Larsen.
There is plenty of nuttiness being uttered during this campaign season that gives any sentient voter cause to pause, but sometimes the inanity advances to the level of being outright ludicrous and fallacious. Hillary [...]
The Chart That Exposes Bull Rally As B.S.
By Barry Ferguson.
The current bull market in stocks is old by bull standards. It started in early 2009 when Ben Bernanke’s Fed staged a coup, assumed command of the US economy, and by default, the government. After all, they [...]
How Islamic State Gained Ground in India Using Indigenous Militant Networks
By Animesh Roul.
A series of arrests this year in India has highlighted how India has been unable to escape its overtures as Islamic State (IS) continues its attempts to expand its geographical and online reach beyond Iraq and Syria.
While [...]
How Should we Deal with Market Speculators?
By Mark Borkowski.
The stock markets of the world are connected and operate on a 24-hour basis through an elaborate electronic network that transacts all the time, enough to finance the entire annual volume of world trade.
Finance [...]
Lots of Money, No Deals
By Mark Borkowski.
At this time, there is more money in the system than anyone can imagine. There is a shortage of companies to acquire, or good projects to invest in. The theory that the baby boomers were selling their companies has proved [...]
An Overview of the Argentinian Economy
By: Donna Welles
Mauricio Macri is the President of Argentina and Michel Temer is the President of Brazil. Cristina Kirchner preceded Mauricio Macri and Dilma Rousseff preceded Michel Temer. Both Cristina Kirchner and Dilma Rousseff have been [...]
How can Trump support deregulation and Glass-Steagall?
By Peter J. Wallison.
The Republican platform’s proposal to reinstate Glass-Steagall is hard to understand, even in the confused policy mishmash created by Donald Trump. The best interpretation is that it’s an awkward outreach [...]