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 | Lew Rockwell |
What Exactly Is ‘Racism’  |
| I want to look at two words that the State and its hangers-on have employed with much success on behalf of increases in government power. One is racism. The other is equality.
What exactly is “racism”? We almost never hear a definition. I doubt anyone really knows what it is. If you’re inclined to dispute this, ask yourself why, if racism truly is something clear and determinate, there is such ceaseless disagreement over which thoughts and behaviors are “racist” and which are not?
If put on theThursday, February 4, 2021 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
| Petro-Dollars and Sound Money |
| In this report we take a brief look at the growing world of Islamic Financing and Banking, it’s history, and strict governing laws. We will observe it’s unique features, implementation strategy and give some background to the ideology that exists behind the system.Saturday, January 16, 2021 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Silver and the Great Future of Mexico |
| Lecture of the author at the solemn ceremony of his appointment as Honorary Professor of Northwest Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy.
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Mexico City
June 27, 2017.
Your Excellency, Ambassador Edward Malayan; Doctor Vladimir Shamakhov, Director of the Northwest Institute of Management of Russian Presidential Academy,members of the Honorable Diplomatic Corps here present, and esteemed audience:
I am greatly privileged to be with all ofTuesday, May 5, 2020 |
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 | Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
| Don’t Fight the Fed! Or the Rest of the World’... |
| On March 9, 2009, The Wall Street Journal’s Money and Investing section posed this ominous question: "How low can stocks go?" The stench of economic malaise was suffocating as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rounded off its fourth straight week of losses, and the S&P 500 touched below 700 for the first time in 13 years. Goldman Sachs cautioned the S&P could fall to 400, while CNBC’s Jim Cramer was busily calculating the stock valuations of the DJIA components based on balance sheet cash Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Start Planning the Tax Reform of 2019 |
| (This item originally appeared at Forbes.com on December 18, 2019.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2017/12/18/start-planning-the-tax-reform-of-2019/#38e70d7349b5
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, focusing on corporate taxes, is almost (if not quite) in the bag. Great! In the end, not much was done on the side of personal income taxes, even if that got a lot of attention. There is still much to do. I would get started in 2018, to pass something in 2019.
Where we want to go: A Flat Tax Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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 | Perth Mint Blog - Perth Mint Blog. |
| Perth Mint export triumph reflects Australian gold sector growth |
| The Perth Mint’s success in exporting AUD11 billion worth of gold to China in the past year reflects the increasing significance of the Australian gold sector. There are currently 66 gold mines operating throughout the country, including 14 of the biggest in the world, according to this Channel 9 News report. Eleven of those are in Western Australia, the nation’s biggest gold State, where four new mines are also currently under construction. That adds up to employment for about 25,000 people, aWednesday, August 23, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Money Laundering Scandal at Australia’s Largest Bank Triggers Another Call for Ban of Cash |
| Ian Narev, the CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the nation’s largest bank is set to step down amid money laundering charges.
Money laundering is big business in Australia because regulations do not cover lawyers, real estate agents, accountants, and CEOs ignoring warnings from police.
Despite the obvious problem, it’s cash itself that gets the blame.
There are several stories here buts let’s start with Australia’s Biggest Bank Says CEO Will Retire Amid Money-Laundering Scandal.
CommMonday, August 14, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Goldman, Citi Turn Positive On Gold – Despite “Mysterious” Flash Crash |
| Goldman and Citigroup Turn Positive On Gold – Despite “Mysterious” Flash Crash
– Gold bounces higher after “mysterious” one minute “flash crash” mistake
– $2 billion, 50 tons or 1.8 million ounces “fat finger” trade blamed
Gold in USD – 1 Week
– Massive selling at 0400 EST when U.S. markets closed and thin trading amid holidays in Muslim countries including Turkey, Singapore and Malaysia.
– Mystery is that “fat fingers” in gold market are always sell trades that push prices lower
– Traders or mTuesday, June 27, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| China's Scandal Tinged Push To Buy Up Hollywood Media |
| Via Disobedient Media
As China's economy has boomed, corporations and individuals with historically close ties to the government have been the major beneficiaries. Sitting flush with massive amounts of cash on hand, power players in the Chinese markets have increasingly sought to branch out and increase their investments in foreign countries. Many of these investments target key industries despite their own government often restricting or forbidding the same kind of foreign investment domesticalTuesday, June 6, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| In Emerging Markets, It's Time To Dump Most Central Banks, And Their Currencies Too |
| Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.
On March 16th, the New York Times carried reportage by Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, which was titled “The Fed Acts. Workers in Mexico and Merchants in Malaysia Suffer.” The theme of their extensive reportage is that U.S. monetary policy is the elephant in the room. It is the elephant that swings exchange rates and capital flows to and fro in emerging-market countries, causing consiWednesday, May 24, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| America’s financial war strategy |
| AbstractAmerica’s renewed desire to escalate military tensions is a front for America’s continual financial war, this time directed at North Korea, Syria and possibly Iran. This is likely to be the opinion of China’s strategic advisors. We analyse the geopolitics and economics behind America’s war strategy from China’s perspective, concluding that it is entering its final phase. China’s exit plan appears to be to tie the pricing of energy and then other major commodities to gold, returning to thThursday, April 20, 2017 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| The Secret Wealth Of The World's Richest Oil Billionaires |
| A policy of nationalizing chunks of an economy inevitably creates oligarchs
who skim profits off the country's natural resources.
As such, you won't be surprised to learn that the largest
energy companies in the world are owned and operated by governments,
and they include: Saudi Aramco, Russian Gazprom, China National Petroleum
Corp. (CNPC), National Iranian Oil Co., Petroleos de Venezuela, Brazil's
Petrobras and Malaysia's Petronas. How they're run varies wildly—as does
wWednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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| USA GOLD - USA Gold |
| The Daily Market Report: Gold Rebounds Above $1250 |
| USAGOLD/Peter A. Grant/04-03-17
Gold has rebounded to trade back above the $1250 level, helped by ongoing concerns about the underlying health of the U.S. economy and the resulting risk aversion. Political uncertainty, both in the U.S. and Europe, along with rising geopolitical tensions are contributing factors as well.
We made note of this in this morning’s Snapshot, but a Zerohedge article has a nice chart from Bloomberg that shows the total return performance of major global financial assets Tuesday, April 4, 2017 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| What sets the Gold Price – Is it the Paper Market or Physical Market |
| The following article is arranged in Question and Answer (Q & A) format. Through the Q & A approach, this article raises some important issues about price discovery in the gold markets and aims to explain the view that the gold price is being set by the paper gold markets.
BullionStar’s CEO Torgny Persson and precious metals analyst Ronan Manly are of the opinion that due to the structure of contemporary gold markets, it is primarily trading activity in the paper gold markets which sets the inteThursday, March 30, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| EU Crisis Is Existential – Importance of Tomorrow’s Vote |
| EU Crisis Becoming Existential… Dutch Vote Tomorrow and Why It Matters
The leader of the National Front in France, Marine Le Pen, has hailed Britain’s decision to leave the EU – and has called for France to hold a similar referendum
The EU is facing an existential crisis and does not look like it will survive the massive political and financial challenges it is faced with. This has ramifications for investors in the EU itself and globally as the collapse of one of the world’s largest trading bloTuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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| Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| Next Oil Rally Futures Say Market Is Tightening |
| U.S. oil inventories are at record levels, but there are a few glimmers of
hope that the glut could be starting to subside.
Storing crude oil for sale at a later date is no longer profitable, as the
futures curve has flattened out in recent weeks, depriving traders of a strategy
that has served them well over the past few years. The market "contango," in
which front-month oil contracts trade at a discount to oil futures six months
or a year out, has all but vanished. The differential mWednesday, March 1, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Now devout Muslims can help bullion banks and central banks short gold |
| By Bernardo Vizcaino and Arpan Varghese
Reuters
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
The world's largest physically-backed gold fund said today it has been certified as sharia-compliant, the latest effort aimed at spurring demand for bullion from investors across majority-Muslim countries.
Gold had traditionally been classified as a currency in Islamic finance, confining its use to spot transactions, but new guidance issued in December is making room for a wider range of investment products.
The SPDR GoldWednesday, February 15, 2017 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| What Makes a 'Critical' Metal or 'Strategic' Element |
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I was a keynote speaker at the recent Murdock Capital Partners Critical Metals/Strategic Elements Symposium in New York City.This is my second gig at one of convener Tom Dean’s on-going series of symposia and I thank him for continuing support.Although the venue is small, intimate, and limited to 75 attendees, the investor quality is second to none, particularly in the amount of money represented and managed.Tuesday, January 10, 2017 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The Problems of Free Trade -- Much More Labor, Not Enough Capital |
| An underappreciated idea in economics is what I call the capital/labor
ratio. This ratio is not really some kind of numerical statistic, but
rather, a way of thinking about problems and solutions. It can be used
to illustrate some of the difficulties of free trade, and also, what we
should do about them.
From the beginnings of industrialization, around 1780, people wondered
if machines would replace human labor, and thus lead to mass
unemployment and disenfranchisement. If one person with a steMonday, January 9, 2017 |
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