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 | Frederic Bastiat |
| The Tax Gatherer |
| JACQUES BONHOMME, a vintner.Mr. LASOUCHE, tax gatherer.L.: You have secured 20 tuns of wine?J.: Yes, by dint of my own skill and labor.L.: Have the goodness to deliver up to me six of the best.J.: Six tuns out of 20! Good Heaven! you are going to ruin me. And please, Sir, for what purpose do you intend them?L.: The first will be handed over to the creditors of the state. When people have debts, the least thing they can do is to pay interest upon them.J.: And what has become of the capital?L.: ThThursday, January 28, 2021 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The origin of cycles |
| It was Karl Marx who was among the first believers that cyclical behaviour was endemic to free markets.He lived through a time when there was a regular cycle of boom and bust, with phases of economic expansion followed by contraction. Workers were employed and then unemployed, and the only way this could be stopped, in Marxian economics, was for the workers to acquire the means of production, or more correctly, the state to do so on their behalf.Other economists, such as Jevons and Wicksell, recSunday, January 24, 2021 |
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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
 America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| "Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes
its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty)
Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used
throughout Europe.
A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank
currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing
gTuesday, January 5, 2021 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Power of Two: A Primer for the Lay Investor |
| The Mercenary Geologist investing philosophy requires actively trading stocks. There are no “buy and hold” scenarios in my portfolio. That said, there are trades and there are investments but that’s a subject to be tackled in a future musing. My trading methodology employs a very conservative strategy to speculate in a very high risk market sector.Saturday, December 26, 2020 |
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| Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
Geological Catastrophes Waiting to Happen or TEOTWAWKI  |
| 3rd Stone from the Sun (Jimi Hendrix and Chad Chandler, 1967):
Hendrix: Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. Over.
Chandler: I am in orbit around the third planet of star known as Sun. Over.
Hendrix: May this be Earth? Over.
Chandler: Positive. It is known to have some form of intelligent species. Over.
Hendrix: I think we should take a look.
Throughout its 4.5 billion year history, the geology of the Earth has created an environment that allows life to thrive or causes it to die.Saturday, December 5, 2020 |
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| Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiMonday, November 23, 2020 |
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| Frederic Bastiat |
| Raw Materials |
| It is said that the most advantageous of all branches of trade is that which supplies manufactured commodities in exchange for raw materials. For these raw materials are the aliment and support of national labor.
Hence the conclusion is drawn that the best law of customs is that which gives the greatest possible facility to the importation of raw materials, and which throws most obstacles in the way of importing finished goods.
There is no fallacy in political economy more widely disseminated thMonday, October 12, 2020 |
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 | Gerard Jackson - Brookes News |
How the Laffer curve really works  |
| Kennedy declared that “it is a paradoxical that tax rates are too high and tax revenues too low”. In other words, high taxes were depressing output. Acting on this belief — what so many today sneeringly call supply-side economics — he cut taxes in 1963 and investment surged ahead. In the four years preceding the Kennedy cuts only 27.8 per cent of what is termed investment went to business and 38.5 per cent to real estate.Wednesday, September 16, 2020 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
Empire At War For Energy Money  |
| It appears that in history, overstretched empires have often resorted to fighting external wars in the vain attempt to preserve their ailing empire:
1) Through history more blood has been spilt, and more lives lost over gold than anything else. There have always been Gold Wars waged - historically, they centered on seizing by force the physical stockpiles or controlling strategic reserves of gold.
2) Today’s Gold War is more complex and deceptive. There is a very clear war being waged against gold (the same war that has been going on for close to 100 years).Monday, August 17, 2020 |
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| Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
| Should Self-Sufficient Countries Trade |
| Countries that are self-sufficient have enough resources to meet the demands
of their citizens. Such countries do not need to trade, but there is
advantage to be gained by trading. These benefits are three-fold: reduced prices,
a tradable surplus, and/or reduced work hours for their citizens.
I will illustrate this principle using two commodities - spice and coal -
from two hypothetical countries: Zamunda and Elbonia. For this illustration
we need to agree on the following assumption:
Thursday, May 21, 2020 |
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| Investing in Mining Stocks - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Power of Two: A Primer for the Lay Investor |
| Wednesday, May 13, 2020 |
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| Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Life Cycle of Money |
| In the aftermath of the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, governments throughout the world have fostered a tenuous recovery predicated on massive increases in money supplies and debasement of currencies. Note however, that monetary debasement is not a recent phenomenon; it is simply the natural life cycle of money.There are six well-defined stages in the life cycle of money. This progression has occurred in every dominant civilizationMonday, May 11, 2020 |
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| Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| Gold, Silver, and the US Dollar: 1792-1971 |
| In today's musing, I review the history of gold, silver, and fiat currency as money in the United States of America. I document how various wars, panics and depressions, Congressional acts, and executive orders have affected the US dollar prices of precious metals and resulting gold-silver ratios.This musing covers the period from 1792 when the United States government first established a national currency backed by gold and silver untilMonday, April 6, 2020 |
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| The Disastrous History of Money - USA Gold |
| The Nightmare German Inflation |
| Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Is Italy the Canary in the Coal Mine For Europe's Debt Bubble |
| The EU debt bomb is about ready to go off.
If you wanted to find a place in which Central Banking monetary insanity will result in an epic systemic blow up, Europe is the best place to start. True, Japan is further down the monetary insanity rabbit hole… but Japan is a single country with a single central bank that controls a single currency.
Europe, on the other hand, is an amalgamation of 24 countries, all in various stages of insolvency, and none of which have a Central Bank that can printTuesday, October 2, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Capturing a Cacophony of Voices |
| My 2017 book, Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands, its book of the year. I'm quite honoured. Here is an intro to the oil sands, based on information from that book.
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
Hudson’s Bay
Company explorer James Knight made a seminal observation in his diary on
June 27, 1715. On an expedition into today’s Alberta, he wrote that he had
learned from Cree “Home Guard” Indigenous people, local trappers and factory
provisioners “abt the Great RTuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| “Should We Restore The Gold Standard” |
| I thought I would add a little commentary to this item from Bullionstar:
Should We Restore the Gold Standard?
It consists of a sort of virtual discussion between Larry White and David Glasner, who we looked at recently regarding his views of the Great Depression:
I say “virtual” because it appears that the two did not have an actual discussion, but rather, the author compares some of their public statements. The article is a nice summary of what a discussion today on this topic might look like.
Monday, March 12, 2018 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Amazing Energy Drills Amazing Well |
| Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold does the math for an energy company drilling in the Permian Basin and finds it pretty impressive.
Amazing Energy Oil & Gas Co. (AMAZ:OTCQX) drilled an oil well they named WWJD #23 in Pecos County in the Permian Basin to a depth of 1,997 feet and encountered 44 feet of pay in the targeted Queen A formation. They own about 70% of the well and their cost was $300,000.
The company just announced numbers on the wellWednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs
Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary
ISBN number: 978-1-55059-363-1
Copy for inside front cover:
Public relations is "the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn understanding and acceptance."
Canadian Public Relations Society definition
Title: Barbeques, Booms and BlogsSubSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| Why The Next Oil Boom Will Be Fueled By Blockchain |
| Big Oil is due for a disruption.
The world’s most important industry has been carrying on without any significant changes in its day to day routine for far too long.
But now, the new tech on the block has its sights set on the multi-trillion-dollar oil and gas sector.
It’s official: Blockchain technology has infiltrated Big Oil.
The hype behind blockchain has reached a full-blown frenzy. And for good reason.
The technology, which creates secure ledgers for digital transactions and rapidly acceleSaturday, February 24, 2018 |
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