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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
Inflation And Alan Greenspan  |
| Alan Greenspan 1967
"As the supply of money increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the economy, prices must eventually rise. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value".
Alan Greenspan 1981
"A return to a gold standard (would be) a basic change in our economic processes. A gold-based monetary system will necessarily prevent fiscal imprudence. Once achieved, the discipline of the gold standard would surely reinforce anti-inflation policies, and make it far more difficult to resume financial profligacy".Monday, February 15, 2021 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Has Barrick Been Barricked By The U.S. |
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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
 Hyperinflation around the Globe  |
| Angola (1991-1999)
Angola went through the worst inflation from 1991 to 1995. In early 1991, the highest denomination was 50,000 kwanzas. By 1994, it was 500,000 kwanzas. In the 1995 currency reform, 1 kwanza reajustado was exchanged for 1,000 kwanzas. The highest denomination in 1995 was 5,000,000 kwanzas reajustados. In the 1999 currency reform, 1 new kwanza was exchanged for 1,000,000 kwanzas reajustados. The overall impact of hyperinflation: 1 new kwanza = 1,000,000,000 pre-1991 kwanzas.Wednesday, April 15, 2020 |
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| Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
 The Ancient Port Cities of Tyre and Sidon |
| The famous Phoenician traders and their age old port cities of Tyre and Sidon stood as monuments to centuries of 'barter of trade and exchange'. This was your textbook booming economy, boasting of every benefit, technology and luxury affluence could afford. It had diversity in its products range, guarantied markets, established and time proven infrastructure, geographical superiority, and military might. It had a broad customer base, productive labor force, limited government, strategicWednesday, April 8, 2020 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
 Russia Did It! |
| This past week saw an enormous outpouring of respect and admiration for Stephen Hawking upon his passing.
In contrast to his frail health in life, his contributions to our understanding of the universe were prodigious and robust. Hawking's elevation of rational and intellectual truth above all else, even his failing body, inspired a generation of science lovers.
Perhaps, too, he represented something in desperately short supply in today's world: intellectual integrity.
Our lives are now fraughtFriday, March 16, 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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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Is Tether a Scam That Will Crash the Bitcoin Price by 80 |
| Tether is a “stablecoin” which aims to maintain a value of one US dollar per tether. It it connected to Bitfinex and created by officers from the company, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Tether Limited claims that Tether is backed by reserves of U.S. dollars on a one-to-one basis.
But some are claiming that Tether is not backed by dollars and is created out of thin air in order to pump the price of Bitcoin higher. They claim that Tether is a scam that will implode and cWednesday, January 31, 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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| Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Cryptocurrency Developments So Far in 2018 |
| The first two weeks of 2018 have been quite eventful for the cryptocurrency community. There have been a great many developments in terms of the regulatory environment. Also, a new scaling solution for the second biggest coin by market cap may be leading to its meteoric rise over the past year.
Increased legislation and regulation
One likely reason why crypto, in general, has been pumping lately has to do with increased regulatory clarity. There have been statements made by governments and fiMonday, January 15, 2018 |
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 | Clive Maund |
| Oil Market Update |
| The paradoxical technical situation for oil that we highlighted in the last update has continued – and has gotten even more extreme. In that update we concluded that oil’s very bullish volume indicators pointed to its continuing to advance, despite COT and Hedgers charts and sentiment indicators showing extremes that would normally call for a reversal to the downside, and that is what has happened. The reason? – Iran – it looked like the United States and Israel, and possibly client state Saudi Thursday, January 4, 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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 | James Howard Kunstler |
Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong  |
| Markets
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that.
Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackeMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| The First 30 Years of the Mises Institute, and the Future |
| This talk was delivered at the 30th Anniversary Supporters Summit of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on October 26, 2012.
What a thrill to speak to you on this happy occasion of the Mises Institute's thirtieth anniversary. I am delighted that Ron Paul and Andrew Napolitano have been able to join us for this wonderful celebration, along with our great Mises Institute faculty from universities all over the country, some of our excellent students, and some of the generousMonday, January 1, 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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| Bullion Vault |
| Spot Gold Halves Post-2014 Recovery vs. Euro Ahead of Fed, ECB, BoE Decisions as Middle East Tensions Worsen |
| SPOT GOLD prices failed to hold a 0.4% overnight rally from new 5-month lows in London on Tuesday, slipping back as world stock markets rose again ahead of tomorrow's key US Fed decision on Dollar interest rates amid worsening tensions in the Middle East.
Edging back towards $1241 per ounce today, the price of gold bullion for immediate delivery has now halved the 16% gains for 2017 reached at early September's 12-month peak.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Price of Gold Bars Rallies with 'Tail Risks' as ETFs Expand, China Fears US-N.Korea Strike, Trumps Moves Israel Embassy |
| GOLD BARS rallied from yesterday's 9-week low in Asian and London trade Tuesday as global equities slipped with commodity prices amid rising tensions over Washington's policies in both the Middle East and towards rogue state North Korea.
A Chinese state-run newspaper today gave readers near the border with North Korea a page of
"common sense" advice for the event of a nuclear strike.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Slips Near 'Significant Support' as World Warns Trump on Israel Embassy, Brexit Talks Stall |
| GOLD PRICES slipped near 1-month lows against a rising US Dollar in London trade on Tuesday, drifting back to $1273 per ounce as world stock markets followed Wall Street lower after Monday's drop.
Commodities fell as major government bond prices edged longer-term interest rates higher.
"Gold should encounter significant support at $1269/67 and a rebound should follow once these levels are met," Tuesday, December 5, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| What Now |
| “Contact with Russians.” Grown men and women, doubling and re-doubling down on a political fantasy, repeat this prayer hour after hour on the cable channels and Web waves as if trying to exorcise a nation possessed by the unholy hosts of Hell. But such vicars of the news as Wolf Blitzer, Rachel Maddow, Chuck Todd, and Dean Baquet (of The New York Times) only shove the country closer to a cliff of constitutional crisis.
To a certain class of people — a class that includes a lot of Intellectuals-YMonday, December 4, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| What Now |
| It must be exciting to wake up on a gilded bed somewhere in Riyadh and realize that you are Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, mover and shaker of Middle East order. Actually, exciting just to have woken up at all. Perhaps Prince MBS checks to make sure that there aren’t seventy-two virgins in the room before he rises to prayers, state business, and the prospect of World War Three.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been a giant gasoline bomb waiting to explode for decades. It occupies oMonday, November 13, 2017 |
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| Chris Martenson |
| If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn't Worry You, You're Not Paying Attention |
| While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, is likely to be enormous.
A dramatic geo-political realignment by Saudi Arabia is in full swing this month. It’s upending many decades of established strategic relationships among the world's superpowers and, in particular, is throwing the Middle East into turmoil.
So much is currently in flux, espeSaturday, November 11, 2017 |
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