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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| God, Gold and Guns |
| We’ve been looking into One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter.
October 2, 2017: One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter
October 14, 2017: One Nation Under Gold #2: The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years
Now, we will follow Ledbetter’s account of the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, up to the present.
The account of the 1971 devaluation was, following the pattern of this book, long on details but short on insight. It seemed to people at the time that they “had no choice,” thatSaturday, October 24, 2020 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Cyber War Coming In 2018 |
| – Cyber war is increasing threat – Investors are not prepared for– Third most likely global risk in 2018 is cyber war say WEF
– “Scale and sophistication of attacks is going to grow”– EU, US, NATO lay down ground rules for offensive cyber war– Ireland is viable target for attackers but is ‘grossly unprepared for cyber war’– UK should expect attack that cripples infrastructure within 2 years
– Trump administration may use nuclear weapons in response to cyber attacks– Cyber war designed to have a Wednesday, January 24, 2018 |
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 | Michael S. Rozeff - Lew Rockwell |
| Occupy |
| Central banks
exist for a single reason - to inflate the supply of paper currency.
They are a currency-creating and currency-inflating institution.
This serves two interest groups in the main. One is the fractional-reserve
banks that they regulate. The other is the government that created
them.
For the banks,
the alternative to a central bank is to be subject to the forces
of markMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| The First 30 Years of the Mises Institute, and the Future |
| This talk was delivered at the 30th Anniversary Supporters Summit of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on October 26, 2012.
What a thrill to speak to you on this happy occasion of the Mises Institute's thirtieth anniversary. I am delighted that Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano have been able to join us for this wonderful celebration, along with our great Mises Institute faculty from universities all over the country, some of our excellent students, and some of the generousMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Weapon of Mass Disruption |
| aheadoftheherd.com
The ever-increasing digitalization of our world has meant advances in technology that would have been unimaginable 30 years ago when the Internet first entered the popular lexicon. Created by the U.S. Government in the 1960s to build robust communications via computer networks, “Internet” as it was then called had no means of electronic mail, telephony or file sharing, which are the building blocks of today's world-wide web.
More recent inventions like e-commerce, cloud comTuesday, December 26, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Gold Versus Bitcoin: The Pro-Gold Argument Takes Shape |
| – Gold versus Bitcoin: The pro-gold argument takes shape
– Why cryptocurrencies will not replace gold as a store of value
– Similarities between crypto and gold but that does not make them substitutes
– Gold remains a highly liquid market, cryptocurrencies continue to be fragmented and difficult to spend
– Bitcoin does not make it an effective hedge against stocks
This weekend saw bitcoin shoot up over $8,000 and Bloomberg covered how some preppers were turning to bitcoin over gold. Does this mTuesday, November 21, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Gold Versus Bitcoin: The Pro-Gold Argument Takes Shape - John Rubino |
| Sound money advocates who love the concept of cryptocurrencies but
don’t want to abandon precious metals have been trying to clarify their
thoughts of late. Risk Hedge just helped, with a comprehensive statement
of the pro-gold position. The following is an excerpt. Read the full
article
here.
All the Reasons Cryptocurrencies Will Never Replace Gold as Your Financial Hedge
Despite what the crypto-evangelists will tell you, digital tokens will never and can never replace gold as your finMonday, November 20, 2017 |
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| Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Internet Shutdowns Show Physical Gold Is Ultimate Protection |
| – Internet shutdowns (116 in two years) show physical gold is ultimate protection
– Number of internet shutdowns increased in 2017 as 30 countries hit by shutdowns
– Democratic India experienced 54 internet shutdowns in last two years; Brazil 2
– EU country Estonia, a technologically advanced nation, experienced a shutdown
– Gallup poll shows Americans more worried about cybercrime than violent crime
– Governments use terrorist threat as reason for internet kill switch powers
– Own physical coinTuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Lift Your Head From The Tax Scrum And See The Big Picture |
| (This item originally appeared at Forbes.com on November 3, 2017.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2017/11/03/gop-lift-your-head-from-the-tax-scrum-and-see-the-big-picture/#7002573158e3
The Republicans’ tax bill has made its first pass through the sausage factory without being chopped into little bits. The most important stuff is still in there, in particular a big reduction in corporate tax rates. Unfortunately, the process isn’t over. All the negative influences that have hobbled taxSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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| Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Yahoo Hacking Highlights Cyber Risk and Increasing Importance of Physical Gold |
| – Yahoo admits every single one of 3 billion accounts hacked in 2013 data theft
– Equifax hacking and security breach exposes half of the U.S. population
– Some 143 million people vulnerable to identity theft
– Deloitte hack compromised sensitive emails and client data
– JP Morgan hacked and New York Fed hacked and robbed
– International hacking group steals $300 million
– Global digital banking and financial system not secure
Editor Mark O’Byrne
Imagine there was a chemical disaster at a factThursday, October 5, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Forget Taxes: What if Estonia Made More Money Selling Services |
| Via The Daily Bell
$60 Billion plus is the U.S. dollar equivalent to how much Bitcoin is currently in circulation. That amount of money would keep the Estonian government running at current expenditures for almost 60 years.
$60 billion is more than double Estonia's Gross Domestic Product.
So what if Estonia released a cryptocurrency that was that successful? It's not a stretch to think the first government-sponsored crypocurrency would do as well or better than Bitcoin. It would still have to beFriday, September 22, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Russian Lawmaker Issues Sobering Threat: We’re Willing To Use Nukes To Defend Crimea |
| As of late, the media has forgotten about tensions between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia. Crimea and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine have largely left the public’s awareness. However, that shouldn’t be the case, because this region is still a powder keg that could blow at any time. And if it does, it could easily result in another world war.
If you don’t think the situation in Ukraine could still explode into a wider conflict, take a look at what this member of Russia’s parliament recently said at aWednesday, May 31, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| 2-Week High in Gold Price as G20 Drops 'Free Trade', UK Names Brexit Date, Big Russian Build-Up in Crimea |
| GOLD PRICES rose to a 2-week high on Monday morning in London before easing back as the US Dollar extended its drop and world stock markets also slipped following the weekend's change to the G20 group of nations' stance on protectionist trade policy,
writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault.
Downing Street today announced that UK Prime Minister May will
formally start the countdown to Brexit by triggering Article 50 oMonday, March 20, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Hits 8-Week High as Trump 'Shocks' Nato, UK 'Threatens' EU Over Brexit, Davos Calls for 'Unity' |
| GOLD PRICES jumped near 8-week highs in wholesale bullion trade Monday as weekend comments from US president-elect Donald Trump about the Nato military alliance caused shock in European capitals, and German politicians rebuked UK threats to slash corporate tax rates if a 'hard Brexit' from the European Union sees Britain lose access to the single market.
Dollar gold prices gapped higher from Friday's finish and then rose above $1208 per ounce, sMonday, January 16, 2017 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| European Central Bank gold reserves held across 5 locations. ECB will not disclose Gold Bar List. |
| The European Central Bank (ECB), creator of the Euro, currently claims to hold 504.8 tonnes of gold reserves. These gold holdings are reflected on the ECB balance sheet and arose from transfers made to the ECB by Euro member national central banks, mainly in January 1999 at the birth of the Euro. As of the end of December 2015, these ECB gold reserves were valued on the ECB balance sheet at market prices and amounted to €15.79 billion.
The ECB very recently confirmed to BullionStar that its golWednesday, November 16, 2016 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Foreign Exchange Transactions and the "Gold Exchange Standard" |
| We commonly hear that the world gold standard of the 1920s,
reconstructed after World War I, was somehow radically different than
the gold standard systems prior to 1913. A meeting in Genoa in 1922
gets a lot of attention.
This serves a certain political or rhetorical purpose: first, it allows
some people to claim that the gold standard systems of the 1920s, the
so-called "gold exchange standard" systems, "weren't really a gold
standard," so the gold standard was not to blame for the Great
DeSunday, June 26, 2016 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Foreign Exchange Transactions and the "Gold Exchange Standard." |
| We commonly hear that the world gold standard of the 1920s,
reconstructed after World War I, was somehow radically different than
the gold standard systems prior to 1913. A meeting in Genoa in 1922
gets a lot of attention.
This serves a certain political or rhetorical purpose: first, it allows
some people to claim that the gold standard systems of the 1920s, the
so-called "gold exchange standard" systems, "weren't really a gold
standard," so the gold standard was not to blame for the Great
DeSunday, June 26, 2016 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Refugees Refuse Assignment to Bulgaria, Romania; Greek Refugee Scorecard |
| Beggars Can Be Choosy
Proving once and for all this refugee crisis is for economic reasons first and foremost, not political asylum, Greek refugees assigned to poor countries like Bulgaria and Romania refused to go or went into hiding.
Please consider Refugees in Greece Refuse to Relocate Across EU.
One in seven asylum seekers in the EU’s flagship scheme to relocate refugees throughout the bloc has either refused to be moved or “absconded”, according to figures provided by the Greek government.Tuesday, May 17, 2016 |
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| Nigel H. Maund |
| GETTING READY FOR GOLD'S IMMINENT COMEBACK |
| "GETTING READY FOR GOLD'S IMMINENT COMEBACK"
FOCUSING ON THE GOLD PRODUCERS
By
Nigel Maund
MSc, DIC, MBA, F.Aus.IMM, F.AIG, F.SEG, FGS, MGSA
Economic Geologist
"Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewellery. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.Thursday, March 3, 2016 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
| Open Borders Are an Assault on Private Property |
| Whether we’re talking about illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, or birthright citizenship, or the migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa, the subject of immigration has been in the news and widely discussed for months now. It is an issue fraught with potentially perilous consequences, so it is especially important for libertarians to understand it correctly. This Mises Circle, which is devoSunday, November 15, 2015 |
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