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Euro – a disaster – failed monetary unions past and present
Euro – a disaster – failed monetary unions past and present A glance at history The beginnings of monetary union can be traced back to attempts to unify the coin standard. Emperor Augustus successfully unified the coins in the Roman Empire – for over 400 years the gold coins were minted almost exclusively with the […]
The Death Of Cash – New Tech To Revolutionize The Payments Industry
The Death Of Cash – New Tech To Revolutionize The Payments Industry The world has had enough of paper money. Now that consumers are done with physical wallets, the multi-billion-dollar mobile pay app market is minting new digital barons at breakneck speed. And we’ve just identified one company at the forefront of the revolution which […]
Government Monopoly Money vs. Personal Choice in Currency
GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY MONEY VS. PERSONAL CHOICE IN CURRENCY For more than two hundred years, practically all of even the most free market advocates have assumed that money and banking were different from other types of goods and markets. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, the presumption has been competitive markets and free consumer choice are […]
Gold In Uncertain Times: “The West Doesn’t Get It… They’ve Been Indoctrinated By Paper Money”
Gold In Uncertain Times: “The West Doesn’t Get It… They’ve Been Indoctrinated By Paper Money” In this fascinating interview on RealVision TV, Grant Williams and Egon von Greyerz cover a very broad range of subjects from gold, wealth preservation to debt, interest rates, Brexit, the EU and much more. The interview was recorded in London at […]
Hamilton’s Curse (Reprised)
HAMILTON’S CURSE (REPRISED) The following article is (after very light editing) something your author wrote early in October of 2008, when the padlocks on the Lehman office building doors were still swinging. The reader will, he hopes, find that most of the presentiments expressed and the analysis submitted sadly turned out to be more accurate than otherwise. It […]
The Follies and Fallacies of Keynesian Economics
THE FOLLIES AND FALLACIES OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Eighty years go, on February 4, 1936, one of the most influential books of the last one hundred years was published, British economist, John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. With it was born what has become known as Keynesian Economics. Within less than a […]
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom?
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom? Crack Up! BALTIMORE – The Dow rose on Wednesday morning… after Janet Yellen made soothing remarks about a “gradual” return to normal interest rates. Then investors must have realized that returning to normal is not on the Fed’s agenda. The Dow finished the day down 99 points. We […]
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard We are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The U.S. Federal Reserve has manipulated key interest rates down to practically zero for the last six years, and expanded the money supply in the banking system by $4 trillion dollars over that time. And with […]
Austerity or Hyperinflation. Which is the Precursor to Revolution?
Austerity or Hyperinflation. Which is the Precursor to Revolution? QUESTION: Mr, Armstrong; I recently read an article claiming to be a case study that it was somehow the French hyperinflation that led to the revolution. It seems that as you say they are again mixing facts to support a rise in gold with hyperinflation. I am a […]
Today’s Money Regimes Are Doomed To Failure
Today’s Money Regimes Are Doomed To Failure Centrally issued money centralizes wealth and generates systemic inequality. A Thought Experiment on Money Let’s imagine a small mountain kingdom with only ten very scarce and thus highly valued seashells in circulation. These few shells are certainly valuable in terms of scarcity, but there aren’t enough of them […]
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression One that unwinds the past 50 years of globalization Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, isn’t mincing words about the risks he sees ahead for the world economy. Essentially, he sees the past 50 years […]
Here’s what I think the financial system will look like in the future
Here’s what I think the financial system will look like in the future. Thousands of years ago whenever the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt passed away, they were buried with all of their gold in a specially constructed tomb. The idea was to ward off thieves with booby traps and other perils so that these perceived […]