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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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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Forward Thinking On Backwardation |
| .Thursday, October 8, 2020 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Germany's gold repatriation leader elected chairman of Bundestag's budget committee |
| By Guy Chazan
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
An MP for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been elected chairman of the German Bundestag's powerful budget committee, in a significant coup for the populist party.
A fierce Eurosceptic who has criticised the eurozone bailouts and attacked Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, Peter Boehringer once described Germany's Muslim population as "a great danger to our state."
Chairmanship of the budget committee, which has a Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Ominous Musings on America – 2018 |
| Decay and despotism invade our lives today like gangrene creeps up the limbs of a wounded soldier in the festering fields of war. Our Washington pols swagger through fulsome milieus of political putrescence and graft. Establishment pundits spew hysterical falsehoods on a daily basis. FOMC bureaucrats print fake money like mountebanks spin shell games to carnival dupes. Special counsel shysters conduct corrupted investigations to overturn the rightful will of the people. Political thuggery masqueTuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Trump's Dollar in Cattelan's Gold Toilet |
| Jokes, art, gold and a final use for the Don's 'weak Dollar' policy...
THAT Nancy Spector at the Guggenheim in New York sounds like a right card,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
Her newly leaked
email to the Trump White House of last September declined to lend Don and Mel their desired Van Gogh ('Landscape in the Snow'), but offered instead "a marvelous wFriday, January 26, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Reflections On "Pushing the Wrong Button" and US Drone Policy |
| A “ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii” notification was caused by an employee who "pushed the wrong button."
Wrong Button
ABC News reports an [emergency alert notification] (http://wnep.com/2018/01/13/wrong-button-pushed-during-shift-change-blamed-for-false-hawaii-missile-alert/) sent out on Saturday claiming a “ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii” was a false alarm caused by an employee pressing the “wrong button” during a shift change, according to Hawaii Gov. David Ige.
‘WrongThursday, January 18, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Who the hell does the grand mufti think he is -- a central banker |
| From The Times if Israel, Jerusalem
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Egypt's top Muslim cleric on Monday called for a ban on bitcoin, saying the digital currency is "forbidden" by Islam. ...
Noting that the cryptocurrency is unregulated, Allam said the "currency's risk as well as its high profit potential undermine Egypt's ability to maintain and stabilize its own currency."
He also said the digital currency could have a "negative effect on its dealers' legal safety, possibly due to failure to publicly Wednesday, January 3, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Demand Increases Along with Uncertainty Thanks to Trump, Brexit and North Korea |
| Gold demand increases along with uncertainty thanks to Trump, Brexit and North Korea
– Recent events have increased concerns over ability of leaders to repair rather than excerbate problems
– Holdings in gold-backed ETFs rose by 9.1 tonnes to 2,357 tonnes thanks to European demand
– Trump inflames Middle East tensions. Israel announcement seen as sign of U.S. “failure and impotence”
– Key Brexit Minister admits divorce from EU could have consequences as bad as the financial crisis
– Chinese mediSaturday, December 16, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Polexit Threat: EU Increasingly Upset About Poland Ignoring Rules |
| The Polish government increasingly defies EU rules. Since Poland is the largest aid recipient, the EU is hopping mad.Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are all in open defiance of EU migration rules.
In addition, Poland's Law & Justice party move to take control of the courts was condemned by the European Parliament and European Commission.
The situation is now to the point where various countries want to shut off aid to Poland, but given the EU treaty makes penalizing countries extremely dTuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Surveillance State: An Inexorable March Toward Totalitarianism |
| Gizmodo released an article entitled “US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars,” on 11/2/17 by Matt Novak.The Surveillance State has slowed down its rate of growth since the President took office, however, it has not halted that growth. Instead, it lies festering below the veneer of daily events, inexorably growing its tentacles and extending their reach. Akin to an infestation of weeds, the roots are deep within the fabric of our communications networks: tFriday, November 10, 2017 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 Nietzsche, Trump, and the Political Left  |
| The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, warned us back in the 19th century with his famous theme, the “Transvaluation of Values.” An ominous world dictatorship was coming where good would become evil, and evil good. Freedom would be thought of as slavery, and slavery would become freedom.
He “boldly prophesied that power politics and vicious wars were in store for the future. What he sensed was an approaching period of nihilism, the seeds of which had already been sown.” [1]
Ironically, eveSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | Jan Skoyles - GoldCore |
| Gold Will Be Safe Haven Again In Looming EU Crisis |
| – Gold will be safe haven again in looming EU crisis
– EU crisis is no longer just about debt but about political discontent
– EU officials refuse to acknowledge changing face of politics across the union
– Catalonia shows measures governments will use to maintain control
– EU currently holds control over banks accounts and ability to use cash
– Protect your savings with gold in the face of increased financial threat from EU
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
When we talk about the Eurozone crisis we are usThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Rallies as China Fears 'Minsky Moment' 30 Years After Black Monday, Spain and India Add to Tensions |
| GOLD PRICE losses of 2.0% for the week so far were cut to 1.2% lunchtime Thursday in London, as world equities fell from new record highs and government bond yields rose against a backdrop of fresh geopolitical tensions from Spain to India and China.
After Wall Street set new all-time highs last night, gold priced against the rising US Dollar touched $1288 per ounce as Western stock markets marked the 30th anniversary of October 1987's Black MonThursday, October 19, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Latest Paper Gold Scheme That Is Destined to Fail - Rory Hall |
| It appears that Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has
taken a page from the Bank of India’s playbook to steal the gold from
it’s citizens. The Turkish Treasury has issued two bonds in an attempt
to dislodge 2,200 tons of gold from the hands of the Turkish people. Is
this another attempt to by an SCO, BRI member to acquire the gold
necessary to participate in these alliances spearheaded by China?
As Alasdair Macleod recently explained
this would be one of the stronger reasons behTuesday, September 26, 2017 |
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 | Rory Hall - Sprott Money |
| The Latest Paper Gold Scheme That Is Destined to Fail - Rory Hall |
| It appears that Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek has
taken a page from the Bank of India’s playbook to steal the gold from
it’s citizens. The Turkish Treasury has issued two bonds in an attempt
to dislodge 2,200 tons of gold from the hands of the Turkish people. Is
this another attempt to by an SCO, BRI member to acquire the gold
necessary to participate in these alliances spearheaded by China?
As Alasdair Macleod recently explained
this would be one of the stronger reasons behMonday, September 25, 2017 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Only Political Dividing Line Left - Roots Based Politics |
| aheadoftheherd.com
Because of the rise of Globalism in the late 20th century the U.S. and Western Europe have recently seen stirrings of nationalist awakenings. Terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East and waves of Muslim refugees have fueled the trend.
Wikipedia says this about Nationalism; “a nation should govern itself, free from unwanted outside interference, and is linked to the concept of self-determination. Nationalism is further oriented towards developing and maintaining a national idenSunday, September 10, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| The Golden Revolution, Revisited: Chapter 7 |
| This Insight is the tenth in the serial publication of the new, Revisited edition of my book, The Golden Revolution (John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (The first instalment can be found here.) The book is being published by Goldmoney and will also appear as a special series of Goldmoney Insights over the coming months. This instalment comprises the second chapter of Section II.View the Entire Research Piece as a PDF here.Stagnation, Stagflation, and the Rise of 'Darth' Volcker“When I look at the past Wednesday, August 2, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
We’re Good People, Really We Are!  |
| The disgrace of America’s putative intellectual class is nearly complete as it shoves the polity further into dysfunction and toward collapse. These are the people Nassim Taleb refers to as “intellectuals-yet-idiots.” Big questions loom over this dynamic: How did the thinking class of America sink into this slough of thoughtlessness? And why – what is motivating them?
One path to understanding it can be found in this sober essay by Neal Devers, The Overton Bubble, published two years ago on TheFMonday, July 10, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The End Of The Cycle: “The Government Will Gladly Enter A War To Cleanse The Balance Sheet And Cull The Herd” |
| In the days following the 241st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the country is in an even more precarious position than it was in 1776. We face a situation of a fiat currency about to collapse as the consumer-based economy follows. Whether orchestrated by our imperialistic government or following actions of a hostile foreign nation (prompted or unprompted) the government will gladly enter a war to “cleanse” the balance sheet and cull the herd. Concurrently, the Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Enter The NatGas Cartel |
| The King Dollar is mortally wounded. Many notice but the masses seem largely unaware. Since 1971, the Gold Standard has been removed from its anchor position. But since 1973, the Petro-Dollar has taken its place. It has called for crude oil sales led by the Saudis and OPEC to be transacted in USDollar terms, for oil surpluses to be stored in USTreasury Bonds, and for some kickbacks from the Saudis to the USMilitary complex for weapons purchases. Of course, the US is ready willing and able to creFriday, July 7, 2017 |
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