|
|
John Rubino: The Eurozone meltdown has sent capital pouring into (temporarily) safe haven currencies like the US dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP), which rose by nearly 12% between October 2011 and August 2012. Read more…
Jared Cummans: All of the worry about inflation and the Fed’s ability to control it has put this organization under the microscope. Markets react to their every move, and investors take cues from Bernanke for how they should position themselves. The Fed recently released its printing plans Read more…
John Rubino: The idea of a “debt jubilee” — that is, a wide-spread forgiveness of debt as a way to reset the US financial system — has been bouncing around for a while. But it hasn’t gained mainstream traction because it seems, at first glance, to be too simplistic Read more…
Mac Slavo: In the following video commentary Russian General Konstantin P. Petrov (Ret.) asks some interesting questions and includes his own thoughts (perhaps the non-official Russian position) about a variety of topics that include the end of US dollar hegemony, the orchestration Read more…
U.S. troops available for deployment to fight a full-blown war is 1.4 million, with an additional 2.1 million, if all of NATO were to oblige. Read more…
Mac Slavo: May we all be as prosperous as 69 year old prepper Walter Samaszko Jr., who was recently found deceased in his Nevada home. Read more…
AFTER months of “quanticipation“, the Federal Reserve has finally done it. Ben Bernanke yesterday announced another round of asset purchases. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Regular readers know that going back more than a year now, I have been outlining two, potential (and nearly opposite) scenarios going forward. I indicated that either our economies would plummet into a high-inflation/hyperinflation price-spiral Read more…
Mac Slavo: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says gold is not money. Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger claims it’s only for pre-holocaust Jews and that civilized people don’t buy it. The oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet scorned it as an unproductive asset and says Read more…
A devastating global food crisis unlike anything we have ever seen in modern times is coming. Crippling drought and bizarre weather patterns have damaged food production all over the world this summer, and the UN and the World Bank have both issued ominous Read more…
Mac Slavo: Given that tens of millions of Americans cheered in blissful agreement when a Democratic National Convention promotional video claimed that the only thing we all belong to is the government, it would make perfect sense that everything Read more…
The Federal Reserve Board on Monday began the practice of publishing unaudited combined Federal Reserve Bank financial reports on a quarterly basis. This enhancement to the Board’s previous financial reporting procedures will provide Read more…
Jared Cummans: Coin collecting may not be the most popular form of investing, but it certainly has been a mainstay of niche investors for many years. Anything from a misprinted penny to an experimental coin that was never circulated can be highly sought after by Read more…
Brandon Mills: August 9th may have marked the beginning of what turns out to be another historic court case within the coin industry. Attorneys for William Dominick and Westwood Rare Coin Gallery have filed claims against David Hall, Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “Both parties are driven by the neoconservatives (“neocons”) who believe that American hegemony over the world is worth nuclear war to accomplish,” states former Asst. Secretary of Treasury and Reagonics architect Paul Craig Roberts Read more…
Most Comments