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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
Gary North on central banking, gold, federal debt, and Keynesianism  |
| I have never met Gary North and probably never will.Yet, through his writings he has had a far-reaching influence on my thinking, especially with regard to government and economics.He runs a membership website, GaryNorth.com.For $14.95 a month you get access to everything on the site, including four daily articles that he writes six days a week and posts while most people are still asleep.Members can ask questions in the forums to which he and other members will post replies.
North wrote whatWednesday, February 17, 2021 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo |
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): Between the French and Marginalist Revolutions  |
| CLAUDE FREDERIC BASTIAT was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme ofBastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony" among individuals, as long as government was restricted to the function of protecting the lives, liberties, and property of citizens from theft or aggression.Thursday, February 4, 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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 | Theodore Butler - Butler Research |
| JPMorgan’s Motivation |
| To be sure, there are many who reject, out of hand, my allegation that JPMorgan has accumulated a massive amount of physical silver over the past seven years, amounting to 700 million ounces or more. That’s completely understandable, since I can’t document and point out all 700 million oz and few have taken the time to review the basis of my claim. It doesn’t matter that I first picked up on JPMorgan’s quest to acquire physical silver four years ago, by which time it had already accumulated 300 Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | The Energy Report |
| Target Prices Raised on Cobalt Pure-Play After Major Royalty Acquisition |
| Analysts assess the move by this company to acquire a royalty on a project that one calls "one of the largest undeveloped nickel reserves and the largest undeveloped cobalt reserve globally."
Analyst Anoop Prihar with GMP Securities, in a Feb. 22 research note, reported that Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. (KBLT:TSX.V; CBLLF:OTC; 27O:FSE) acquired from a third party a 1.75% net smelter return royalty (NSR) on all metals (nickel, cobalt, platinum and palladium) pThursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | Stewart Dougherty |
| Mr. President, If We Don’t Have Gold, We Don’t Have a Country |
| “Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. … Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” Mao Tse-tung, proclaiming the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 1949Circumstantial evidence is mounting high that there is something seriously wrong with the amount of gold reportedly owned by the United States government, or more precisely, the American people.After nearly two generations of being brainwashed into believing that gold is a mWednesday, 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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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Trump Risks Trade and Currency Wars – Protectionism and Economic War Loom |
| – Global stocks slump as Trump risks trade wars– Gold prices little changed despite dollar weakness after tariff news– Trump announced plans to impose heavy tariffs on imported metals– China likely to retaliate with heavy tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports– Geo-political tensions with EU and of course China and Russia to escalate– Trade, currency wars and competitive currency devaluations tend to lead to actual war– Russia unveils next generation of “invincible nuclear weapons”– Safe haven golSaturday, March 3, 2018 |
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 | Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors |
| Four Percent 10-year Note Yield Will Be a Floor No... |
| The two most important factors in determining the level of sovereign bond yields are the credit and inflation risks extant within a nation. When determining a country’s ability to service its debt investors must analyze not only the absolute debt level, but also the ratios of debt and deficits to GDP. In addition, the current rate of inflation must also be viewed within the context of debt in order to make an accurate assumption as to the level of future inflation.
When analyzing historical measWednesday, February 21, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Brexit Risks Increase – London Property Market and Pound Vulnerable |
| Brexit Risks Increases – London Property Market and Pound Vulnerable
– Brexit uncertainty deepens as UK government in disarray– BOE warns of earlier and larger rate hikes for Brexit-hit UK– UK property prices fall second month in row, London property under pressure
– No deal Brexit estimated to cost UK £80bn according to government analysis
– Transition period causing major uncertainty for UK and pound
– Pound expected to fall as Brexit fears remain into 2018
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
Source: VoxEU.Friday, February 9, 2018 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| Should we Restore the Gold Standard |
| This blog post is a guest post on BullionStar's Blog by the renowned blogger JP Koning who will be writing about monetary economics, central banking and gold. BullionStar does not endorse or oppose the opinions presented but encourage a healthy debate.
Would it make sense to rebuild an international gold standard like the one we had in the late 1800s? Larry White says the idea has merit, David Glasner believes it isn't worth the risk. Over the years I've followed the back-and-forth between thesTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Digital gold from Perth Mint threatens $122 billion in gold-backed ETFs |
| The Perth Mint's release of digital gold certificates for trading, holding, and transferring physical gold could have profound consequences for the $US98 billion ($122.5 billion) in gold-backed exchange traded funds.
The technology underpinning the digital gold certificates could have other uses such as the clearing and settlement of equities.
At this stage the digitisation of gold ownership by the Perth Mint is available only to institutional investors, such as banks, which can then offer it toWednesday, January 31, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Dollar Up, Gold Prices Dip, Silver Betting -29 Ahead of Fed, Jobs Data |
| GOLD PRICES slipped slightly back on Monday morning in London as the US Dollar surged after 6 straight weeks of losses,
writes Steffen Grosshauser at BullionVault.
Gold traded $6 below last week's close at $1349 per ounce after touching an 18-month high at $1365 early on Friday.
US Treasury bonds meantime extended their New Year 2018 sell-off, pushing up the yields offered to new buMonday, January 29, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Greatest Stock Bubble In History GoldNomics Podcast Transcript |
| Dave: Welcome to episode two of the Goldnomics podcast where we look at the developments in financial markets through the lens of precious metals. Before we start today, I just want to remind all our listeners to subscribe to the Goldnomics podcast on iTunes YouTube or SoundCloud. And you can also stay up to date with all of the developments in precious metals markets by subscribing for our market updates at www.goldcore.com. And you can find a link in the show notes accompanying this podcast.
Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Davos – My Personal Experience of the $100,000 Event, $60 Burgers, Massive Inequality and the Blockchain Revolution |
| – Davos elite hear warnings of complacency akin to 2007 as economic risks grow
– Toxic mix of infallible belief, arrogance, megalomania and economic ignorance
– Some express concern economies are vulnerable due to imbalances, trade, geo-political tensions– Soros: Trump creating ‘mafia state’ & ‘set on a course towards nuclear war’ with N Korea– Bond bear market, rising interest rates and massive $233 trillion debt are some of the many threats to global stability
– Davos theme explores massive inFriday, January 26, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Mortgages: A Perfect Use for Blockchain |
| There are excellent uses for blockchain. Here's one I proposed years ago that is now in media discussion today.
Please consider Blockchain Eyed for Mortgage Bundling That Caused 2008 Crisis.
A group of big financial institutions wants to use the blockchain to help resurrect the packaging of home mortgages into securities, a business that almost destroyed the global banking system in 2008.
Credit Suisse Group AG, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co. and Western Asset Management Co. said Thursday thatSaturday, January 20, 2018 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| 4 Blockchain Stocks to Consider and How They Perform vs. Holding Crypto |
| Holding large-cap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been very profitable long-term, but how does this compare to holding blockchain stocks? And what are some of the top blockchain stocks to consider?
As this new technology and the industry springing up around it grows, opportunities arise in multiple areas. For example, we’ve recently seen how a company’s stock can shoot to the moon the moment it announces it intends to have anything to do with blockchain. While the dramatic extSaturday, January 20, 2018 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| Believing The Impossible |
| "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
~ Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass
To borrow from Lewis Carroll: To have confidence in today's central bank-created bubble markets, we have to believe in six impossible things.
Thing 1: Fundamentals DSaturday, January 20, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| John Hathaway: Gold and bitcoin are attacked to defend government currencies |
| John Hathaway's latest market letter for Tocqueville Asset Management may get as close to a complaint of gold price suppression as anyone can while retaining some respectability in the financial industry. Hathaway writes that there have been efforts to drive down not only gold but also the cryptocurrency bitcoin because of the competition they pose to government currencies.
Hathaway writes:
"Unlike physical, gold is abundant in the synthetic world because physical bars are replicated almost infiFriday, January 5, 2018 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Gold: Not the Typical Year-End Buying Opportunity |
| Ron Struthers of Struthers' Resource Stock Report takes a look back at gold's performance in the last quarter of 2017, and describes a producer he'll be adding to his portfolio in early 2018.
As of my last Seeking Alpha comments on gold on September 15, gold (GLD) had hit my $1,360 target and I was contemplating the possibility of a break above $1,375. I believed at that time the best chance for this was in September/October, because after that we wouldFriday, January 5, 2018 |
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