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| Gold / Silver | 62.06 |
| Gold / Oil | 14.46 |
| Dowjones / Gold | 11.01 |
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| California’s State/Local Governments Confront $1.0 Trillion in Debt; Two Classes of Workers and the |
| This is a guest post by Ed Ring editor of Union Watch, a project of the California Public Policy Center.
California’s State/Local Governments Confront $1.0 Trillion in Debt
A study released earlier today by the California Public Policy Center entitled “Calculating California’s Total State and Local Government Debt”
has estimated that state and local government debt is somewhere between
$848 billion and $1.12 trillion. This is the first attempt we’ve ever
seen by anyone to provide an estimatSaturday, May 04, 2013 |
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| Utopian Union Fantasy: What If Every California Worker Made What City of Irvine Workers Make? |
| This is a guest post written by Ed Ring, editor of UnionWatch, a project of the California Public Policy Center. Ed Ring asks What If Every Worker Made What City of Irvine Workers Make?
Everything that follows is from Ed Ring.
“Jennifer Muir, a spokeswoman for the Orange County
Employees’ Association, which represents more than 18,000 public
employees in Orange County, said the California Public Policy Center’s
study was a politically motivated attack on public employees and
unions. AsideWednesday, April 24, 2013 |
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 | Ranting Andy - Andy Hoffman |
 Dying Hope  |
| It’s ironic that Obama’s 2008 campaign platform focused on the amorphous, fleeting, impractical emotion of HOPE. I get it, it’s just campaign PROPAGANDA – formed by small minds, preying on smaller ones.
From the politician’s standpoint, the best part of such an ambiguous “promise” is the near impossibility of measuring it. From time to time, loaded polls suggest constituent “approval”; however, theSaturday, February 02, 2013 |
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Why Stimulus Always Fails  |
| The title says it all; about realities of the past, present, and future…
Guest Post: Why Stimulus Has Failed
In most aspects, the world is a very complex place. And when you’re talking about a GLOBAL economy incorporating hundreds of nations, languages, and currencies; “complex” is certainly the operative worThursday, January 31, 2013 |
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| This Incredibly Tiny Silver Market |
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Prices above $30/oz of are only the first step for the expected explosion in silver prices due to the size of the market. This guest post by Sean, who I met first 2007 in Vancouver, confirms that the fundamental outlook projects a bottleneck for investible silver.
--- by Sean Rakhimov ---
It has been a while since we had this
nagging feeling that we’re witnessing something prFriday, January 25, 2013 |
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| Silver for Millionaires and Billionaires! |
| Andrew Maguire has chimed in on the "Trader David R." controversy and has made some very interesting points related to the tightness of Physical Silver.Wednesday, October 03, 2012 |
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| Andrew Maguire: Investment banks don't have all that metal |
| Silvermarket manipulationwhistleblower AndrewMaguire hasrebutted therecent assertion of ananonymousmetals traderthat thebiginvestmentbanks have the gold andsilver to back uptheir short positions in the futuresmarkets. Theanonymous trader,Maguirewrites, has nottakenderivativesintoaccount,nor hashenoted thedifficulty ingettingdeliveries.Tuesday, October 02, 2012 |
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| Physical Everything |
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“Simon Black” of Sovereign Man is one of the best writers of “protection-related” articles in the blogosphere.I have quoted him numerous times, and an article he published last week struck a chord in my psyche.Not so much that its theme is novel – as I have been writing of the need to own PHYSICAL assets for some time – but as it pertains to a REAL LIFE SITUATION…
Guest Post: Why You Always Want Physical Everything
Granted, touring San Marino is not an experience shared by most.Friday, August 31, 2012 |
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Wishes and Dreams  |
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If there’s one word I’d use to describe my outlook,it’s pragmatism, i.e., “assessing truth based on the potential for practical application.” I am pragmatic in both my professional and personal lives, and anyone reading this blog likely is, too.Our collective goal is to make correct – as opposed to desirable – decisions, filtering out the cacophony of misleading “noise” – purposeful or otherwise – distracting us from this end.Friday, May 04, 2012 |
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 Yonder ...thur be DRAGONS!! |
| In China there generally exists a feeling of the presence of “authority”. In almost all cases this is reassuring for the visitor …not so however on the streets of the cities.
There, chaos seems to rule …and it would be a brave, nay foolish “westerner” who would even contemplate getting behind the wheel without spending a lot of time to first study and absorb the “local” way.
After the initialThursday, January 26, 2012 |
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