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It’s Not Just China You Should Be Worried About

August 21, 2015

It’s Not Just China You Should Be Worried About Junk Rolling Over TIVOLI, New York – Chinese stocks fell hard on Tuesday. The Shanghai Composite plunged more than 6% – the biggest fall in three weeks. Our research team in Beijing is downcast. “Nobody here wants to hear about stocks,” they tell us. Image credit: […]

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Why Is Gold Becoming Scarcer

August 17, 2015

Why Is Gold Becoming Scarcer A Tight Market For quite a while, we have been talking about scarcity in gold. The cobasis for both October and December is positive. These contracts are backwardated. The cobasis for the February 2016 contract is not far from backwardation. The gold market is tight. Why? Let’s explore. Part of the matter is […]

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Peddling the Corruption of Liberty

August 14, 2015

Peddling the Corruption of Liberty Liberty’s Detractors Ever since the idea of individual liberty has achieved some measure of credibility over the world, those who would be unseated by its limited triumph had to find some way to discredit it or trump it somehow. One way was to re-christen servitude, to make it appear like […]

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The Economy is in Liquidation Mode

August 12, 2015

The Economy is in Liquidation Mode Capital Consumption If you’re an American over a certain age, you remember roller skating rinks (I have no idea if it caught on in other countries). This industry boomed in the 1970’s disco era. However, by the mid 1980’s, the fad was fading. Imagine running a rink company at […]

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What you “Owe to Society”

August 11, 2015

What you “Owe to Society” The “Club Dues” Theory of Taxation Sadly this is an ancient thesis that’s being revived now in a country that was founded on denying it. The idea is well expressed in a recent book by Professor William E. Hudson, titled, The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the […]

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Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report 9 August, 2015

August 10, 2015

Monetary Metals Supply and Demand Report 9 August, 2015 Withdrawing the Gold Bid Last week, we left off with this: “Something is happening with gold…” It began in Dec 2008. To understand it, it is necessary to understand two principles. The first is that gold is money and the dollar is credit, which currently has […]

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Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space

July 25, 2015

Venezuela’s Hyperinflation Crack-Up Boom on its Way to Outer Space Why Stock Markets Are Not an Indicator of the Economy In a free unhampered market economy based on a sound monetary system – this is to say a market-chosen monetary system with a free banking industry and no central planning institution that is manipulating interest rates and […]

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Greece and the Marxism of Syriza

June 30, 2015

Greece and the Marxism of Syriza Has the Leopard Really Changed its Spots? Back in February, a brief article at the BBC remarked on the seeming transformation of Syriza from a bunch of Marxist dreamers into (shudder..) quasi-“Blairites”. To be sure, we also approved of the signs of pragmatism that emerged at the time. The party had […]

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How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves?

June 11, 2015

How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves? Making Waves Mainstream economists tell us that the Federal Reserve protects us from economic waves, indeed from the business cycle itself. In their view, people naturally tend to go overboard and cause wild swings in both directions. Thus, we need an economic central planner to alternatively stimulate us […]

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