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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Hypersonic weapons and your standard of living… |
| Do you believe there is any coincidence the Russians first, followed by the Chinese … announced “hypersonic weapons”? I ask this question for several reasons and will come to a conclusion at the end but for now, with the rollout of the “petro-yuan” set for March 26 is there any coincidence we find out about these weapons now?
We were even offered proof over the weekend of successful tests. If that were not enough, what heck is this? Please take the two minutes to watch the video, these are seasoSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
 Part 2, Politics and the Rule of Law  |
| In this section we will look at “politics and the rule of law” (or the lack of). If you remember, WikiLeaks dumped all sorts of information from the second half of 2016 on. Much of the information was gleaned from John Podesta’s personal e-mail account …and none of it has ever been claimed to be fake e-mails so we can assume they are true. In fact, the reaction to the information (e-mail) dump was to point fingers at “who stole” them and the “illegality” of obtaining them. Never mind “what” the Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Outlook for the dollar price of gold |
| Now that gold has become overbought on Comex, the price is vulnerable to being trashed, yet again, by the too-big-to-fail banks. It is a familiar operation in gold futures markets, where speculators buying contracts protect themselves with stop-losses.All the TBTF banks need is a pause in the speculator’s buying and a little good news (bad for gold). Ideally, the active contract will be running into maturity, so the speculators are forced to put up or shut up: in other words, sell the contract,Friday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| August 2007: When the Central Bank Con-Trick Failed |
| "Whatever it takes" has so far equaled $15 trillion of QE...
WEDNESDAY this week marks the 10th anniversary of what pundits, analysts and most investors now agree was the start of the global financial crisis,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
If they had been paying attention when the interbank credit markets first froze in fear – back on 9 August 2007 – most people wouWednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Why Bitcoin Will Make Gold And Silver Go Up, PT ll |
| Ho hum. Another first Friday of the month, and another fabricated “jobs” report with not a shred of correlation to real economic activity. Like, for instance, the completely ignored fact that – as I have discussed ad nauseum – the BLS’ “birth-death model”; which as we recently learned, accounts for 93% of all new “jobs” since the 2008 crisis; is based on the creation of unreported jobs at small businesses. This, despite the “inconvenient truth” that more small businesses have “died” since 200Saturday, August 5, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
 What Would Really Happen If California Seceded  |
| There are two kinds of people who support the Calexit movement. People living in California who think that their state would be far better off without being hitched to the rest of the union, and people living in every other state who can’t wait to get rid of California.
I’d wager that latter of those two know something that most Calexit supporters in California do not. They know that the golden state is a toxic influence on the rest of the country. It’s become a breeding ground for leftists ideoFriday, August 4, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Bitcoin Segwit Activation-The Gold Cartels Worst Nightmare |
| Not that its experience is any different from the countless “empires” that destroyed themselves from within; but let’s face it, America is rapidly morphing into a Banana Republic.
And not just in terms of its monetary policy – as the leader, in the “race to the bottom,” of the terminal phase of history’s largest; most destructive; and for the first time, global; fiat Ponzi scheme. Unfortunately, the symptoms of the disease are widespread, affecting the political, economic, and social landscape Saturday, July 22, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Silver Fundamentals Vs. The Base Metal Bubble Part ll-Silver Undervalued Against Everything Now! |
| Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump Jr. was allegedly involved in secret meetings with a Russian lawyer last year, in an alleged attempt to obtain anti-Hillary information. This, as Trump’s snot-nosed, silver spoon son-in-law, Jared Kushner – a mere 36 years old – was collaborating with Qatarian sheiks whilst Saudi Arabia “coincidentally” declared economic war on it – under the ultimate “pot calling the kettle black” insinuation that Qatar funds terrorism. To which, I can only say, how ridWednesday, July 12, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Financial Independence Day |
| Today, we’re going to start with two extremely powerful quotes, regarding the history of monetary destruction…
“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense…that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire, and that each implies and requires the other.”
…and what we can, and must do, to stop it…
“It’s time for us to declare our independence from an oppressWednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Pensions Timebomb In America – “National Crisis” Cometh |
| Pensions Timebomb – Pensions “Are Going To Be A National Crisis”
– America’s underfunded pension system is “not a distant concern but a system already in crisis”…
– Tax may explode as governments seek to bail out insolvent pension plans
– Illinois, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Kentucky and eight other states vulnerable
– The simple mathematical mismatch at the heart of the pension crisis…
– Why the pension crisis really is “America’s silent crisis”…
– Pensions timebomb conFriday, June 30, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Central Bank Hubris That Would Make Icarus Blanche |
| In Greek mythology, hubris is defined as excessive pride or self-confidence, in defiance of the gods, which ultimately brings about one’s demise. Synonyms include arrogance, conceit, self-importance, egotism, pomposity, superciliousness, and superiority – with some of the most famous mythological examples being Phaethon, Narcissisus, Arachne, and Cassiopeia; and in modern times, Richard Nixon, Tiger Woods, and Mel Gibson. However, the “poster child” of hubris, in my view, is Icarus; who, in deThursday, June 29, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Canary In The Coal Mine: Unfunded Liabilities Have Turned Illinois Into A “Banana Republic” On The Brink Of Bankruptcy |
| Illinois is the perfect example of what happens when your state is run by fiscally irresponsible dunces for decades. The state is buried debt, and hasn’t passed a budget in over 700 days. 100% of their monthly revenue is being consumed by court ordered payments, and the Illinois Department of Transportation has revealed that they may not be able to pay contractors (who are working on over 700 infrastructure projects) after July 1st if the state doesn’t pass a budget. To top it all off, the stateFriday, June 23, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Illinois Governor: “We’re Like a Banana Republic” |
| Illinois is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said this month:
We’re like a banana republic ….
We can’t manage our money.
Well, yes … all of America has become a banana republic.Thursday, June 22, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Precious Metals VS. Crypto-Currency And Mainstream Investments-“Revisited” |
| Two days after the most suicidal, hubristically arrogant policy statement in FOMC history, by an institution desperate to maintain the dead propaganda meme of “growth”; and with it, the Cartel’s “response” – gold remains less than $20/oz below its 5½ year downtrend line, and $20/oz above its 200 week moving average; whilst silver – in my view, more undervalued than at any time in history – is just a buck below its 200 week moving average, but a full $0.65/oz above its 5½ year downtrend line. InSunday, June 18, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Precious Metals-Dirt Cheap Insurance, In An Increasingly, Explosively PIMBEEB World |
| With each passing day, I don’t just think, but know the world cannot, and will not, survive the collapse of history’s largest, most destructive fiat Ponzi scheme without “thousand-year-flood”-like changes in the global political, economic, social, monetary; and likely, military landscape.
These changes have unquestionably begun in “second” and “third world” nations with undversified economies, unstable political regimes; and of course, fiat currencies that can’t be abused – like the dollar, EuroTuesday, June 6, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| After 5 1/2 Years Of Precious Metal Suppression, How Much “Ammo” Does The Cartel Have Left |
| Following up this week’s “historic market manipulation is setting the stage for catastrophe” theme, here’s how the U.S. PPT/Fed/ESF and the Chinese “national team” responded to dramatic, across-the-board PiMBEEB headlines yesterday. In the U.S.’s case, a dramatic plunge in April construction spending; a May autosales “bloodbath; the downgrade of Illinois to one notch above junk status; and plunging commodities, particularly crude oil. And in China’s case, a dramatic plunge in its May PMI ManufaFriday, June 2, 2017 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
GOLD – The Ultimate Buy and Hold  |
| Last night, I was telling my wife of the frustration the past five years has wrought on Precious Metal holders – or, as they call them in the Bitcoin world, “hoddlers.” It’s been far worse, and longer, in the “paper PM investment” world – as the Cartel has not only annihilated mining shares, but the mining industry as well; as not only have reserves been decimated, whilst mine production has – perhaps, permanently – peaked; but share counts and debt burdens have exploded, limiting shares’ upsidThursday, June 1, 2017 |
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| Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| US Election: Gold Price Brexit-Shock Warning |
| Trump bad man, good for gold prices says consensus. But Clinton...?
SO SUDDENLY gold is all about the US election,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
Opinion polls for today's vote have seen gold prices go higher
as Trump edged neck-and-neck, only for the metal to drop back as Clinton got the
all clear from the FBI over the latest shock probe ofTuesday, November 8, 2016 |
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 | Captain Hook - Treasure Chest |
| Do or Die |
| The laws of the jungle are becoming important again as the life cycle of humanity continues to turn. Increasingly, it's survival of the fittest for both the have-nots and haves alike, whether they choose to realize this or not. In the jungle, it's 'do or die' - the laws of natural selection. The weak and less endowed must stay ahead of the strong or be eaten - and they know it. For some time now however, increasing numbers of human beings have become desensitized to rules of Mother Nature due toWednesday, August 31, 2016 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 Can Trump Win the Presidency |
| Members of the mainstream media are coming down on Donald Trump like the German Luftwaffe came down on London. Ruthlessly biased, they are obsessed with sabotaging this maverick businessman-turned-politician in hopes of electing their statist champion, Hillary, to the presidency.
The American people, however, are not overly eager to buy MSM’s leftist bias. The majority of them still believe in free enterprise and limited government. Unfortunately The Donald is not exactly a “free-enterpriser” orMonday, August 15, 2016 |
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