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 | Lysander Spooner - Mises.org |
No Treason, no. 1  |
| The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery, and it is the same that it would have been if free states, instead of slave states, had seceded.
On the part of the North, the war was carried on not to liberate the slaves, but by a government that had always perverted and violated the Constitution to keep the slaves in bondage, and was still willing to do so if the slaveholders could be thereby induced to stay in the Union.
The principle on which the war was waged by the North was simplFriday, February 26, 2021 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
That Accursed Propensity To Save  |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Common Gold Silver Pitfalls to Avoid |
| Investing in gold and silver may seem simple and straightforward, however it is not.
There are many types of ( quote, unquote ) "investments" in gold and silver you will want to avoid.
Gold and silver dealers are no different from any other industry or crowd of people.
Within our industry you will find many good honest professionals and organizations, but you will also find some bad outfits whose practices can be described as underhanded, even criminal.
Being the Managing Director ofMonday, November 16, 2020 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
 The Truth About War and the State  |
| Not long ago I was thinking about the legacy of Murray N. Rothbard, the brilliant scholar and the creator of the libertarian movement, as well as a dear friend to both Ron and me. Would that movement have come into existence without Murray? I don’t think so. And whatever might have developed in its place would undoubtedly have been less pro-peace, and more willing to reach an accord with the warfare stSaturday, September 5, 2020 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream |
| .Wednesday, August 5, 2020 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Credit Unions |
| Thursday, July 30, 2020 |
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 | Thorsten Polleit |
 The Fiasco of Fiat Money |
| I. Today's worldwide paper-, or "fiat-," money regime is an economically and socially destructive scheme — with far-reaching and seriously harmful economic and societal consequences, effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine.
Fiat money is inflationary; it benefits a few at the expense of many others; it causes boom-and-bust cycles; it leads tooverindebtedness; it corrupts society's morals; and it will ultimately end in a depression on a grand scale.Saturday, July 11, 2020 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell |
| The American Religion of Violence |
| Laurence Vance has coined the word “warvangelical” to describe so-called evangelical Christians who are obsessed with supporting all of the state’s wars and all of the death, destruction, and mayhem that they entail. They ignore the ancient just war tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, among others, and simply support all war and all military aggression – as long as the U.S. government is the aggressor.
These are the people who booed at Ron Paul when he reminded them at one of their conventions thaWednesday, July 1, 2020 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Global Times - Hard lessons from China's silver standard |
| History will repeat, but this time around America will not be able to coin silver Trade Dollars to conduct trade with Asia. Oops. Oh, where O where did my empire go?
Source: Caijing.com.cn
[08:30 July 15 2009]
Chinese macroeconomic historian Ray Huang used to say the Qing Dynasty never understood monetary and fiscal policy, and therefore was unable to compete against the West. In those days, monetary policy in China was essentially tied to silver, the national money standard since tWednesday, June 10, 2020 |
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| Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Dismal Monetary Science |
| .Tuesday, May 19, 2020 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Currency War: 140 Years of Monetary History in Ten Minutes |
| Like most complex subjects reduced to a ten minute summation, there are plenty of nuances lost here, and one might certainly take issue with some of the conclusions. And the perspective of the discussion is largely centered on the US and Europe.
Nevertheless, I like the succinct overview of certain key events in recent world monetary history that lead up to the situation in which we find ourselves today.
Since most people are abysmally ignorant of where we have been, perhaps that is a good pWednesday, April 8, 2020 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold and Silver Trading Down to New Euro Lows as ECB Cuts 42 Words on QE |
| GOLD and SILVER TRADING in London's wholesale bullion market saw prices hold firm in everything but the single Euro currency on Thursday as the European Central Bank dropped a commitment to boost its QE stimulus if the economic or financial outlook worsens.
Platinum prices also fell hard against the Euro as the ECB cut
42 words first used in March 2016 from its monetary policy statement.
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| SOCIALISM – A GUARANTEED ROUTE TO HYPERINFLATION |
| Gold is hated by governments around the world because it reveals their deceitful actions in totally destroying the economy. It is not an accident that gold is the only money which has survived for 6,000 years. Gold is the only money that tells the truth. And gold is nature’s money which means it cannot be destroyed and it cannot be manufactured.
This is why governments cannot live with gold as money for more than short periods. Because over time governments always spend more than the country earFriday, March 2, 2018 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Gold is a Giant Ouija Board |
| We have been promising to get back to the topic of capital destruction, which we put on hiatus for the last several weeks to make our case that the interest rate remains in a falling trend. Today, we have a different way of looking at capital destruction.
Socialism is the system of seeking out and destroying capital. Redistribution means taking someone’s capital and handing it over as income to someone else. The rightful owner would steward and compound it, not consume it. But the recipient of uMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Signs of the Times |
| Perspective
We have been watching for credit conditions to deteriorate - enough to prompt the establishment to claim that there are no problems. It took a jump in long-dated rates and a hit to the stock markets to prompt some such defensive claims. The advice to ignore the break and focus on the economy seems naïve. In ordinary conditions the top of the stock market leads the peak in the economy by some 12 months. That is why the S&P is included in the formal list of "Leading Indicators" (numberFriday, February 16, 2018 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Better than the alternative |
| As people age we sometimes hear them say it beats the alternative, which is usually left unsaid.It’s an old joke technology aims to eliminate by treating aging as a disease and curing it.
But there’s another sense in which the alternative is assumed to be far worse than the present condition. I’m referring to the type of government almost all people live under, which is the nation state. As bad as states might be — we’ve all been taught — it certainly beats the alternative, anarchy.
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| Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Pivotal Events |
| Perspective
"Rational Exuberance".
We started using the phrase in December 2016, because of the new Pro-Business Administration. On the big technical surges, we dropped the "Rational".
The DJIA zoom has reached a Weekly RSI of 92. As noted last week, the highest reached for the Nasdaq in the Dot-Com mania was 84.
Also, the Fibonacci has reached a possible target, built upon the major swings since the panic ended in March 2009.
Clearly, "Irrational Exuberance".
The NYXBT (NYSE Bitcoin Index) soarFriday, February 9, 2018 |
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| SRSrocco - SRSRocco Report |
| RIPPLE’S TULIP BUBBLE: May It Rest In Peace…. |
| Unfortunately for crypto investors “HODLING” onto Ripple, their huge gains have been wiped out in just the past few weeks. While Ripple’s price surged to massive percentage gains in a short period, it came down just as fast. Unbelievably, Ripple’s price surged from less than a penny in March 2017 to a peak of $2.81 on Jan 1st, 2018.Ripple’s stunning price increase would have made investors during Holland’s 17th Century Tulip Bubble, quite envious. Ripple’s price increased a staggering 46,700%Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| US Weighs Venezuela Oil Sanctions: Why Haven't We Starved Enough |
| Thousands of children in Venezuela have starved to death. More are at risk. US sanctions contribute to the conditions.
The hospitals in Venezuela are overcrowded with children suffering from extreme malnutrition and dehydration. Because of hyperinflation, the Venezuelan Bolivar is all but worthless.
The country's only source of revenue is oil, but thanks to corruption and neglect, oil production is down. Making matters worse for everyone in the county, especially innocent children, the US has Tuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| David Cay Johnston: The Dirty Secrets of the Corporatocracy - |
| "This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759Friday, February 2, 2018 |
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