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James Howard Kunstler

Merry Christmas to All

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Gee, if it wasn't constant robocalls all day long, maybe it'd be worthwhile to answer the phone...

28/12/2018 à 00:13

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James Howard Kunstler

Stormy Weather

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Agreed; I doubt he could have won against an actual human being, or, heck, anything in possession of a soul.

30/01/2018 à 00:11

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Jordan Roy Byrne - The Daily Gold

Why You Must Own Silver in 2018

I don't know about your prediction, but, yeah, until the "we can short it infinitely often" issue is addressed, silver can only be whatever price the big banks want it to be...and $20 an ounce doesn't seem like something they want.

23/01/2018 à 05:25

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James Howard Kunstler

Racism-O-Rama

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It's not just the English that is considered RACIST, it's also mathematics, and a wide range of other things:
http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2017/11/math-as-white-privilegethe-real-outrage.html

15/01/2018 à 17:42

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James Howard Kunstler

Who Moved My Xanax

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My goodness, Mr. Kunstler may have gotten into the red pills...

12/01/2018 à 21:18

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Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin

Part 2, Politics and the Rule of Law

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You'll have to clarify for me if you're serious or not (sometimes sarcasm doesn't go well in text). As the former president, Obama would be in a pretty good position to be responsible for major criminal acts committed by the government under his reign.

Considering the broad array of criminal allegations, it'd be pretty amazing if the guy at the top didn't know about anything at all.

05/01/2018 à 23:08

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Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin

Part 2, Politics and the Rule of Law

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What bias? Do you have an example?

05/01/2018 à 04:29

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James Howard Kunstler

What Now

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Mathematically, doubling down is an amazingly powerful strategy...until it isn't.

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2017/11/doubling-down-fiat-currency-and-social.html

04/12/2017 à 20:18

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James Howard Kunstler

Another One Bites the Dust

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Shallow it may be, but it's frickin' hilarious to laugh at all the hypocritical jerks who gave Trump ("I'm no angel") endless grief for his "when you're a celebrity you can grab them by the p*ssy" line now tell us to overlook this creep ("I'm sanctimonious because I'm on the Left") because he was just joking around. ;)

23/11/2017 à 03:31

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Steve Saville - Speculative Investor

A silver price-suppression theory gets debunked

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I think he linked the wrong article, because there's minimal facts and logic there relevant to price suppression. It's a shame, because I really would like to see a counter-argument the "mass conspiracy to suppress prices" theory.

07/10/2017 à 21:28

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Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin

Did I Say Yesturday, The Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever Well, Trump Took Just 24 Hours To Top It!

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That's...pretty ignorant. Gold was much higher under Obama, and seeing as Trump is merely continuing the policies of Obama (and Bush, for that matter), the future of international politics is as dark as it's been for years.

14/08/2017 à 04:10

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James Howard Kunstler

Words and Deeds

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Do you get the feeling we've got a couple of guys who just downvote everything? How about actually responding, instead of just a downvote?

29/07/2017 à 16:43

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Fed Balance Sheet Unwinding Expected “Relatively Soon”: Let the Debate Begin

Also, the poor will be getting a huge shipment of free government cheese, fresh from the moon.

27/07/2017 à 00:42

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Andy Sutton

Supply Side Economics – 42 Years Later – Paul Craig Roberts

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Lots and lots of things aren't in wikipedia, because they don't fit the Leftist narrative, and many entries have an extraordinarily biased presentation. That's why Infogalactic is steadily taking the place of wiki as a (more) valid source of information.

23/07/2017 à 22:54

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James Howard Kunstler

Meow

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>>For all his blunders and stumbles...<<

To be fair, all presidents blunder and stumble like this. This is just the first in a long while where the media scrutinizes to this degree.

21/07/2017 à 23:13

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James Howard Kunstler

Covfefe Land

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You're using the word wrong. "Covfefe" refers to coverage or presentation of material from a hate-filled, particularly Leftist, point of view. For example, an article from Stormfront could be called racist covfefe article.

On the other hand, anything on CNN is simply covfefe.

02/06/2017 à 18:12

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Sprott Money

Is Gold Signaling The Next Financial Crisis - Rory Hall/Dave Kranzler

Might be a loading glitch, article looks good to me.

11/05/2017 à 07:44

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Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital

Interesting Cut and Paste From the Mayo Clinic

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Indeed, Chelsea Clinton has very small hands.

30/04/2017 à 17:11

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James Howard Kunstler

The Revenge of Comet Pizza

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To be fair, Milo resigned from Breitbart, he wasn't "bounced." The problem we have here is this takedown was choreographed across the fake media, as so many other choreographed assaults have been (have we already forgotten election night with the parade of women claiming to be attacked by Trump?).

Meanwhile, Bill Maher said much the same and...no choreographed takedown. Lena Dunham says even worse and.....

24/02/2017 à 22:14

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

US Consumers to Pay for Wall: Trump Plans 20 Border Tax on Mexican Goods

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Trump is new to political theory and thus is ignorant of the concept of "unintended consequences." While this isn't a good sign, it's not that much worse than our veteran politicians who know how unintended consequences work, and enact bad/ineffectual policies anyway.

27/01/2017 à 22:01

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James Howard Kunstler

The Cheeto Cometh

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"If he survives" is a pretty consistent qualifier among pundits regarding Trump.

It's pretty clear we're at the point now where we all know that our government will kill anyone who stands in the way of plundering the American people.

16/01/2017 à 19:33

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James Howard Kunstler

The Deep State Blues

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With every passing day, I'm forced to like Trump more for the enemies he's made.

19/12/2016 à 18:36

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Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin

Trump VS. Clinton-Who’s “Better” For Gold

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Uh...I'm not sure I understand the conclusion here.

21/10/2016 à 01:24

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Hillary on WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: “Can’t We Just Drone This guy”, Other Comments from Cl...

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What's really telling here is that Trump calling a model Piggy is played out a horrifically bad behavior, all over the mainstream media for days...while Hillary makes very credible death threats and the media has nothing to say at all.

05/10/2016 à 03:17

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Do You Believe There is Food Price Deflation Mish vs. Consensus

You covered the burrito index, which I think is a more fair representation of actual prices that most people pay. I use the taco index, myself. When I was a kid, tacos were a quarter, or 4 for a dollar. When I was at university, it was 3 tacos for a dollar at Taco Bell.

Now they're 1 for $1.20. So, either I'm around 400 years old (to be consistent with government's claims of low inflation), OR prices ar...

31/08/2016 à 17:54

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James Howard Kunstler

The Odious Versus the Tedious

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"Odious versus the tedious" is good prose, but "Odious versus the odious" is more accurate by far.

26/07/2016 à 05:10

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Nathan Lewis - New World Economics

Where Does All the Money Go Let's Kick Around Colgate University

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It's even worse than that, I'm afraid. There's a massive over- and double- counting of faculty that you can't get from that sheet. Many of the "faculty" are actually staff/administrators. For example, at my school, the deans and librarians were counted as faculty, effectively halving the student/faculty ratio. There are similarly weird "job definition" rules that allow for some amazing salaries at the administra...

20/06/2016 à 17:59

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

US Recession Odds Hit 55 According to Deutsche Bank Model

By recession, I reckon they mean "things so bad the government can't possibly manipulate the statistics to say we're not in a recession."

15/06/2016 à 02:46

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David Bardallis

The $100,000 trazillion gaquillion plan

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It's just so...accurate. If fiat means nothing, what difference does the number make, anyway? I love the quote by Krugman, it could easily be something he's said.

11/05/2016 à 21:46

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David Bardallis

The $100,000 trazillion gaquillion plan

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Wow, this sure has aged well.

11/05/2016 à 21:44

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

License to Steal: Italy’s Highest Court Rules “Theft Not a Crime if Hungry”

Actually, I find the "attempted theft" definition odd. Wouldn't pretty much all cases which make it to court be classified as "attempted theft"?

If they got away with it, then there's no case because the criminal can't be charged. But if they're caught, it's attempted, right?

03/05/2016 à 20:06

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James Howard Kunstler

Can’t Anyone Fix This

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Every presidential election my friends and I talk about how there's nobody worth voting for, and each time it just gets worse. Trump's a blowhard, but still leagues better than all other GOP candidates, who don't even dare say "I can't be bought." Hillary promises the same as the non-Trump GOP candidates (and lots of people have purchase receipts for her) and Sanders is promising the "we'll give you lots of fre...

19/10/2015 à 17:05

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Peter Schiff - Euro Pacific Capital

Groundhog Day at the Fed

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It is weird how the mathematics made it very clear that no meaningful rate hike is possible (yes, I qualified that with "meaningful" because a hike of .0001% might not tank the economy). Our country/economy is so debt-ridden. more importantly 0% interest debt-ridden, that a tiny increment would increase the payments by multiples....and most can't make the payments now without taking out further loans.

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19/09/2015 à 00:49

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Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin

ONLY ONE FINANCIAL EVENT COULD BE AS CATACLYSMIC AS A SIGNIFICANT YUAN DEVALUATION…

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It does rather beg the question: rates can't go any lower. Rates can't be increased.

These guys no longer serve any purpose, so why can't we just get rid of them?

02/09/2015 à 19:56

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James Howard Kunstler

Potemkin Party

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He coughs at the phrase "Democratic Party Leadership"? Apparently he hasn't looked much at the GOP, whose leadership (gag) is also feeble.

27/07/2015 à 22:57

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John Rubino - Dollar Collapse

Are Gold Investors Finally Capitulating

I just don't see capitulation as a possibility. IF you sell gold, you get...what, paper money? Paper money loses a few percent (or more) of it's value every year. You could put the cash in a bank but...Greece makes it very clear that banks aren't a good choice.

So, you'll have to invest that money in...what? CDs? Your rate of return there is 1% or so, and there's nothing out there that's particularly sa...

21/07/2015 à 04:50

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Chris Vermeulen - GoldandOilGuy

Americans Have No Idea that the United States is on the Brink

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Um, is there a parapgraph or two missing here?

26/06/2015 à 04:33

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Deconstructing and Debunking Shadowstats

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I was under the impression that the inflation stats on his site were, as he explained them: one set is "official government inflation", and the other is "inflation, assuming the government is correct about why it made a change."

See, the government changes how it measures inflation, on a fairly regular basis. When it makes a change, it justifies it, eg, "we're making this change because the current rule...

29/04/2015 à 04:43

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Chris Vermeulen - GoldandOilGuy

In Three to Five Years Gold Will Be Priceless

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Trouble is, everything here could be said just as accurately, 3 to 5 years ago.

23/04/2015 à 05:42

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

In Search of the Magic Wand: Career Change at Age 45 Possible

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Yes, stay away from University of Phoenix, a school with a 9% graduation rate, that only gets students because it spends $200,000 a day on Google advertising, and where employers toss applicants with UoPhoenix degrees in the trash.

25/02/2015 à 23:34

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Chris Powell - GATA

Doug Casey's omniscience vs. the many records of gold price suppression

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I certainly concede Casey's omniscience is odd, but not proof that he's "in on it".

That said, large conspiracies have been successfully enacted for years, so I can't rule out a conspiracy just because it would take a few thousand people (cf Gulf of Tonkin), especially when banks acknowledge they do manipulate, at least to some extent.

But, please, can you provide a plausible explanation why go...

16/02/2015 à 02:27

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Eric Dubin - Investor Intelligentsia

360 Tons of Gold Within Annual Worldwide Sewage Flows

I was under the impression that the highest yielding gold mine in Japan was the sewage treatment plant that covers a major industrial sector near Tokyo:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/30/us-gold-sewage-odd-idUSTRE50T56120090130

02/02/2015 à 17:15

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Job Site of the Future: Unmanned Bulldozers and Drones for Routine Construction

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Exactly! That's why the cotton gin and industrial steel mills closed down immediately and had no effect on the economy. Oh, wait. Nvm.

01/02/2015 à 18:46

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Chris Powell - GATA

Koos Jansen: India's silver exports rose to record in 2014

Heh, the title doesn't match the subject. I would have been shocked if India was really exporting silver, much less exporting a record.

26/01/2015 à 18:30

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James Howard Kunstler

The Broken Template

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You can google "Obama's Stupid Community College Plan" to get an idea of how bad the community college system is.

26/01/2015 à 17:21

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The Gold Report

John Williams: A Downhill Run for the Dollar in 2015

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Certainly an interesting read, but Williams has been making these sorts of predictions for...how many years now?

I have absolute confidence that the dollar's collapse is inevitable, but it's been "any month now" for a long time. I sure hope a new guy with a better crystal ball, because at this point most prognosticators are falling into the "stopped clock is right twice a day" category.

04/01/2015 à 20:05

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Chris Ciovacco - Ciovacco Capital Management

Can Stocks Get Over The Hump This Time

The answer to the question that is the title: the US was a phenomenally wealthy country, and thus it was very easy to grotesquely underestimate just how long it will/would take for the fiat system to plunder all the wealth. The real question is "Just how much longer can the gold bugs be wrong?" I suspect less than 5 more years...but the immense wealth of this country is easily underestimated.

30/12/2014 à 18:40

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Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie

Swiss Gold Poll Likely Tighter Than Polls Suggest

Thing is, there's something really wrong with all these "close elections": the exit polls don't line up. That's why they stopped doing them for presidential elections in the US, and why Scotland is "a bit" upset that their independence vote failed. I strongly suspect that data is being manipulated so that the predicted outcome is "too close to call"...then, when, sho' 'nuff, the Powers That Be win the election, ...

24/11/2014 à 01:48

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Charleston Voice

When Central Banks Re-build Silver Reserves

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Coins have some measure of protection, for their "numismatic value", which the law an allow the serfs to keep. Bars have no such protection.

Somehow, I feel when the time comes, the law will simply be changed "to keep us safe", and, failing, that, they'll start shooting people in the head until the coins are "given" too.

04/11/2014 à 23:29

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

McDonald's Vows Fresh Thinking After Net Income Declines 30; Mish Offers Some Advice

Please reconsider asking for lower prices...the only way McDonald's can do that is to cut back on food quality. Seeing as they're already down to putting wood pulp in their "meat" and other foodlike products, I shudder to think what they might do to reduce quality further. I also avoid the fast food places.

I took my lady to a burger place today. I had a turkey burger, she the veggie burger. We each had...

22/10/2014 à 18:23

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Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan

A Visual History: How Much $1 Used To Get You (And How Much It Gets You Now)

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Weird, that's twice in a row with a random vote-down with no actual counter-argument.

22/09/2014 à 02:47

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Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan

A Visual History: How Much $1 Used To Get You (And How Much It Gets You Now)

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What's really odd about that list is how often the "new" price is in the area of 20x the old price, at least when you're around 50-100 years ago. It's almost as though the purchasing power of an ounce of silver (which is basically what "$1" represented over a century ago) has remained the same, while the purchasing power of a dollar has fairly consistently dropped 95% over that time period.

18/09/2014 à 23:37

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Deflationary Spiral Nonsense; Keynesian Theory vs. Practice; Eurozone Policymakers Concerned

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"the upcoming collapse in the Yen will provide the final proof that Keynesian economics is pure idiocy."

The final proof? Rubbish, Keynesian insanity has been proven as idiocy with every Keynesian experiment. When the Yen collapses (further), nobody will take it as proof...the Japanese consumers will be accused of hoarding, or it'll be blamed on poor weather, or even global warming.

If the Yen ...

17/09/2014 à 05:32

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Jeff Clark - Casey Research

Survey Results: Readers’ Thoughts on Whether to Hold, Fold, or Be Bold

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So, um, why no actual survey results? What % were bold? What % were fold?

16/09/2014 à 18:36

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Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors

Why Goldman Sachs is Wrong on Gold

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Goldman Sachs has basically a 100% success rate on trades (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). So, I'd sure love GS to be wrong, but, bottom line, they have a chokehold on trading that simply guarantees they will be right.

Right up until the point they are wrong, of course.

16/09/2014 à 03:52

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Tim Iacono - Iacono Research

Oliver on Student Loans/For Profit Colleges

Indeed, for-profit schools are pretty scummy, but publicly supported schools, in many, many, ways are little better. It's quite common in public schools, for example, to take people with the documented mental capacity of an 8 year old, and sign them up for a lifetime of student loans. You can google my blog under "Professor Doom" and "education" to get much documentation of what's going on.

09/09/2014 à 19:19

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Moral Dilemma: Should a Libertarian Who Does Not Need Food Stamps, but Qualifies for Them, Ta

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Certainly, that's part of it. But there are plenty of liberals that have at least some assets, that nevertheless have no morality to question. On the other hand, it seems like libertarians are forever questioning what is the morally right thing to do.

02/09/2014 à 05:40

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Jeffrey Lewis

Silver and the Unmentionables

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I have to agree the trading of silver/gold the last few months has been bizarre, to say the least. Ten/twenty years ago, every time something bullish for PB happened in the real world (eg, war, or threat of war), and these prices would jump. Now? We've had what, 3 wars/near wars in the few months and....nothing. If anything, a drop.

Now, some claim that it's all paper selling/shorting to keep the market...

01/09/2014 à 18:56

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Moral Dilemma: Should a Libertarian Who Does Not Need Food Stamps, but Qualifies for Them, Ta

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Isn't it interesting that liberals never ask themselves "if I believe the government does everything better than humans, why don't I just give everything I have to the government and let it take care of me in whatever way it deems fit?"

30/08/2014 à 21:47

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Trapped in Venezuela: Looking to Get Out Good Luck!

Yeah, "It can't happen here" is a terrible, terrible, assumption to make. I'll grant it's unlikely to happen tomorrow, but it's certain it'll happen at some point. It may be six months (or less), or sixty years (or more)...but past that I can't narrow it down much. My own feeling is it'll happen in my lifetime, but there's a decent chance I'll get lucky and die first.

28/08/2014 à 17:32

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Michael Pento - Delta Global Advisors

The Keynesian Counterfactual is Japan

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What's interesting about this is if you try to point out the Japanese failure of pure Keynesian policies to a liberal/Keynesian, he's just say "The US isn't the same as Japan, it's a bigger country, so Keynesianism works here." But then when you point out how other socialist policies failed horribly (like in the USSR), they just point to how Denmark or Finland have socialist policies that work fine...for the tim...

20/08/2014 à 17:17

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Tim Iacono - Iacono Research

Elizabeth Warren on Banks and Student Loans

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My blog actually covers the immense fraud of higher education/student loans in pretty heavy detail. Google "Professor Doom" and "Black Secret of Higher Education" to find one of the more relevant posts.

07/08/2014 à 03:30

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Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie

Gold Could Go To Infinity - Ron Paul

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I always hate those "gold to infinity" expressions. It's far more accurate to say that "paper will go to zero" in terms of buying power. If gold really "went to infinity" I'd be able to buy the entire country with an ounce of gold...and we all know that's never going to happen under any circumstances.

Even in a "gold to infinity" scenario, it'll still probably take several ounces of gold to buy a decent...

01/08/2014 à 04:14

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Chris Powell - GATA

GATA needs help, so please consider buying a T-shirt

Did I miss the link for buying a t-shirt?

21/07/2014 à 01:44

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James West - Midas Letter

5 Things that Need to Happen for $2,000 Gold and $50 Silver

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Isn't it more to fair any one of these things would cause what you claim? They're not all interrelated, but if the China dumps dollars, that could easily cause rates to rise. If QE ends (hah!), the market will tank hard core.

I'll grant that the futures markets failing won't necessarily cause any of the other things, but it seems like the collapse of the paper market could all by itself cause the physic...

13/07/2014 à 18:18

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Chris Powell - GATA

German gold stays in New York in rebuff to euro doubters

Stuff like this makes me wonder "What will be the most outrageous lie of the 21st century?"

I'm pretty sure "Yeah, we have your gold. We're just not going to let you see it, or return it to you."

01/07/2014 à 04:40

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Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell

How the Free Market Ends Discrimination

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Maybe he could back it up with a link? I'm curious, if the South could be IN the Union with their slave system intact, why could it not be OUT of the Union with their slave system intact? Is he saying the Federal government really is that evil?

03/06/2014 à 17:55

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Chris Vermeulen - GoldandOilGuy

Why Gold Is Falling and a Gold Forecast You May Not Like

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If interest rates go lower, that'll just drive more people into buying rocks (that might appreciate in value) over savings in dollars or bonds (both guaranteed not to appreciate in value relative to inflation).

If the Fed raises rates like you predict, the country won't be able to pay the interest on the debt, leading to a collapse of the dollar. That's good for gold, too.

29/03/2014 à 17:10

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Pete Kofod - Casey Resarch

What’s Wrong with Modern Libertarians

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You've rather missed the key point of libertarianism: The Non-Aggression Principle. It may be worthwhile to at least learn the basic foundation of libertarian philosophies before posting a polemic against libertarianism. You don't have to do so, obviously, but it would help.

It's rather funny to hear you bemoan the name-calling of (unnamed, unlocated, unattributed) libertarians in one breath, and in ano...

06/03/2014 à 19:22

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Julian D. W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster

Gold Silver Market Morning

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The real question is why wasn't there a 9:30am massive short slam 3 days in a row?

15/02/2014 à 18:18

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Rick Ackerman

Deflation vs. Hyperinflation

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I'll take a stab at that hyperinflation scenario. Initially, inflation grows "slow", just 20% or so for a few years...wages don't come close to keeping up. Rising prices affects almost everything day to day (food, gas, electricity, etc), but the money from that goes to corporations, not to the people providing those things. With no money to spare in the general population, service industry collapses for lack of ...

02/01/2014 à 06:48

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

U.S. Crushes 6 Tons of Ivory, Some of it Exquisitely Carved, to "Send Message" to Poachers; D

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But...but if the government dumped all that ivory on the market at once, that would lower the price of ivory, and then it wouldn't be as lucrative for the poachers.

Oh wait, that makes sense, too, so no way the government would go for it.

19/11/2013 à 04:04

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Chris Powell - GATA

Academic study admits possibility of gold market rigging but can't confirm it

But, it's impossible to document *anything* statistically, all you ever get is "evidence" that's always in the eye of the beholder. Tobacco companies, for decades, said there was no statistical evidence that smoking and lung cancer were related, because, ultimately, "statistical documentation" never objectively exists.

24/09/2013 à 18:38

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

"How Can One Calculate True Price Inflation"

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Sorry for the double post, but my first comment vanished.

Lost in the above discussion is the mention of productivity increases, that should further factor into an inflation calculation. A lone man can harvest vastly more grain than decades ago--this should lower prices, but inflation has slurped up the benefit of better productivity. Similarly, high quality steel was worth more than its weight in gold ...

24/09/2013 à 17:47

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Mish - Global Economic Analysis

Future of Education is At Hand: Online, Accredited, Affordable, Useful

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Online education has potential, but the higher education system is utterly without integrity. Additionally, accreditation is nothing like you, or most people, think it is.

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/07/an-obvious-question-about-online.html

07/09/2013 à 04:01

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Tim Iacono - Iacono Research

Indian Rupee Crisis Now Even More Comical

Hmm, the government will pay more than pawn shops and dealers...the dealers will respond by paying more. The government will respond by paying still more...repeat ad infinitum. Could the law of unintended consequences ignite the beginning of the end for fiat?

30/08/2013 à 06:36

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Rick Ackerman

Career Advice for a Son or Daughter

Yes, only go for college degrees that are for a specific job. If you apply to college, and you are classified as "remedial", stay the hell out:

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/08/two-classes-predict-failure-as-college.html

27/08/2013 à 07:26

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Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital

The One Chart That Proves We’re Not in a “Recovery”

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It's a shame I can't get the links to work.

10/07/2013 à 22:13

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Lew Rockwell

Another Nail in the Neocon Coffin

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Goodness, a pair of refugees from the Gaming Den, I think.

15/05/2013 à 20:30

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John Rubino - Dollar Collapse

Welcome To The Third World, Part 5: Higher Education Goes Broke

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Professors somewhere might be paid executive salaries, but certainly not where I am; I make about 1/3 of what the administrators make, however. The real issue with college expenses is the administrative bloat.

Back when my college had under 1,000 students, we had a dozen faculty and a like amount of administrators. Now we have 5,000 students and...20 faculty. Administrators, on the other hand, have inc...

25/06/2012 à 19:27

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