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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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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
 America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| "Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes
its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty)
Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used
throughout Europe.
A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank
currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Fielding my grandson’s questions about gold and banking |
| My grandson had quite a day at school.He had learned that the economy had been suffering from things called Panics, capital P, during the 19th century and had another big one in the early 20th century.He had been told that responsible, public-spirited men like J. P. Morgan had organized a central bank to prevent those Panics.He and other bankers finally got the government to go along with their idea and pass it into law in late 1913.And wouldn’t you know it — we’ve had no more Panics since then.Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiMonday, November 23, 2020 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| God, Gold and Guns |
| We’ve been looking into One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter.
October 2, 2017: One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter
October 14, 2017: One Nation Under Gold #2: The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years
Now, we will follow Ledbetter’s account of the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, up to the present.
The account of the 1971 devaluation was, following the pattern of this book, long on details but short on insight. It seemed to people at the time that they “had no choice,” thatSaturday, October 24, 2020 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Gold Silver Confiscation: Can the Government Seize Assets |
| One concern of retail precious metals investors is the possibility of a gold confiscation.Imagine having the forethought to buy gold to shield your finances from an economic or monetary crisis—only to have it taken away from you by your government. You’d lose not just the protective buffer you put in place but potentially a chunk of your net worth.Gold confiscation may sound preposterous to investors used to securities or real estate. But it’s happened in the past enough times to make it a reasoMonday, June 1, 2020 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
Cecil Rhodes and the Dream of a New World Order Presided Over by an Anglo-American Establishment  |
| "The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist to this day.
To be sure, this secret sociMonday, April 13, 2020 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Eat Gold |
| Submitted by BullionStar.com
A popular phrase in segments of the mainstream financial media is that “You Can’t Eat Gold”. We don’t know who first uttered this comment, but it was more than likely a talking-head or Wall Street analyst on CNBC or Bloomberg.
The disparaging claim seems to be based on concluding that in a financial or monetary crisis, if you own gold, that “You Can’t Eat It”. And so, according to the logic of whoever came up with the phrase, this would make gold useless during a finMonday, August 13, 2018 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Economic Nationalism |
| I thought that I would chew over the idea of “economic nationalism” for a bit, to see if we could find something useful in it. The neo-liberal free trade/no borders consensus is a little too easily promoted by many today, apparently without much thought. I am generally in the neo-liberal camp, but I wanted to think about it.
For some reason, “nationalism” is a naughty word these days, but all that it means is that one feels an allegiance to one’s “nation.” The main reason for the badmouthing of Tuesday, March 20, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
 Stephen Hawking – Doomsday Prophet’s Top Five Predictions |
| – Stephen Hawking, the doomsday prophet & visionary physicist died yesterday
– Hawking’s five doomsday warnings highlight the need for a ‘Plan B’
– Hawking predicted A.I. may be “the worst thing” for humans
– Vocal critic of President Trump and warned about the risk of nuclear war
– “Nuclear war remains the greatest danger to the survival of the human race”
Photo by Simon Steinberger via Flickr
Stephen Hawking, the visionary physicist who died early yesterday at the age of 76, made five predicSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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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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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Unmoved, Hits 5-Week Low vs GBP as US Backs UK Over Russian Spy Attack |
| GOLD PRICES were unmoved Thursday by worsening tensions between Nato and Russia over the poisoning in Britain of a former spy, holding $5 below last week's finish to trade at $1318 per ounce as world stock markets also held flat overall.
Silver also slipped, trading 1% down for the week so far at $16.43 as major Western bond prices rose, edging interest rates down.
Russian bond yields rose as MoFriday, March 16, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices Fall vs Sterling, Moscow Equities Drop as UK-Russia Tensions Worsen |
| GOLD PRICES spiked to a 1-week high before retreating against a volatile US Dollar in London trade Wednesday as Russia promised retailiation over the UK expelling 23 diplomats as "undeclared intelligence officers" following the poisoning of a former spy with toxic nerve agent.
The UK also said it is
tightening checks on Russian state-owned assets in Britian, and the Royal family will not attend this summer's football World Cup, but Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Capturing a Cacophony of Voices |
| My 2017 book, Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands, its book of the year. I'm quite honoured. Here is an intro to the oil sands, based on information from that book.
By Peter McKenzie-Brown
Hudson’s Bay
Company explorer James Knight made a seminal observation in his diary on
June 27, 1715. On an expedition into today’s Alberta, he wrote that he had
learned from Cree “Home Guard” Indigenous people, local trappers and factory
provisioners “abt the Great RTuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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| Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Trade Wars |
| An overt trade war has commenced. President Trump has fired the starting gun, setting in motion an election promise, part of his Make America Great Again undertaking. It is a blow squarely aimed against China, costing China some trade perhaps, but basically a loser’s last roll of the dice.The back story appears to be far deeper than some relatively minor tariffs on steel and aluminium would suggest. It comes after a prolonged period of shadow-boxing between America in the blue corner and Russia Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Rallies vs Weaker Dollar as EU Retaliates in US Trade War |
| GOLD PRICES rose against a weakening Dollar in London trade Tuesday, regaining last week's 0.5% loss to reach $1329 per ounce but slipping in Euro and Sterling terms as talk of a "trade war" between the US and Europe grew.
After US President Donald
Trump last week proposed new US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, "We are looking at possibilities to retaliate," the EU Commissioner for Trade
told the BBC, "[with] taxTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| How about just conducting government business -- and trading -- in public |
| By Fergal O'Brien
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The financial crisis, global recession, and a long, slow recovery have dented public faith in central banks and it's going to be a hard slog to win it back, according to the Bank of England's chief economist.
In a speech today, Andy Haldane said credibility and trust are the "secret sauce of central banking" and there is no quick fix to regain them. That's partly because of resentment among people about slow wage growth, faster inflation, aTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| Why QE didn’t send gold up to $20,000 |
| 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.
Why didn't quantitative easing, which created trillions of dollars of new money, lead to a massive spike in the gold price?
100 Trillion Dollar Notes are not yet required to purchase gold. Why hasn't the increased money supply significantly increTuesday, March 6, 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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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| David Glasner Cheers For Hawtrey and Cassel |
| Today, we are doing a little more work regarding the Interwar Period, which was a big focus over the past two years. Specifically, we will look at a 2013 paper, “Pre-Keynesian Monetary Theories of the Great Depression,” by Ronald Batchelder and David Glasner. You can read it here:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2029813
David Glasner has a website here:
https://uneasymoney.com
To summarize the paper, it is basically a “blame gold” argument, that says that aggressive accumulatMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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