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Will the Dollar Survive the Rise of the Yuan and the End of the Petrodollar?
Will the Dollar Survive the Rise of the Yuan and the End of the Petrodollar? This might seem a frivolous question, while the dollar still retains its might, and is universally accepted in preference to other, less stable fiat currencies. However, it is becoming clear, at least to independent monetary observers, that in 2018 the […]
A Bedtime Story
A Bedtime Story We are explaining our money system to our grandson, James, now 14 months old… His mother tries to get him to go to bed at 9 p.m. But the little boy’s internal clock is still on Baltimore time; it tells him it is much too early to go to sleep. Bill’s living […]
Interest Rates Starting To Bite
Interest Rates Starting To Bite We have long held that interest rates have been so low (especially real rates) that it will take some time to reach a level for them to really matter and impact markets. The 2-year yield crossing over the S&P500 divie yield this past week for the first time in the last […]
Transparent citizens, negative interest rates and other crazy ideas of economic experts
Transparent citizens, negative interest rates and other crazy ideas of economic experts In a March paper, Alexei Kireyev of the International Monetary Fund advises abolishing cash without having the citizens aware of the process. First, large banknotes are to be withdrawn from circulation, next limits on cash transactions are to be imposed, then computerization of […]
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon Exclusive: It seems like it’s always Christmastime at the Pentagon where the stockings are full and budget-cutting is for those domestic social-program guys, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Wise parents who celebrate Christmas advise their young children not to make unreasonably grandiose requests of Santa. After all, he has to squeeze […]
Why the Dollar is not Fiat
Why the Dollar is not Fiat QUESTION: You have said that coins were still fiat and not tangible hard money. Nobody else has said that. Can you support that statement? DS ANSWER: Of course. During the American Colonial period, there was a shortage of silver in particular in Britain. The British imposed restrictions on what […]
If You Don’t Own Any Bitcoin, Read This
If You Don’t Own Any Bitcoin, Read This This week it hit $19,000. What’s next? Wow. Just….wow. Bitcoin’s price has gone ‘beyond exponential’ this week. Just yesterday, as I started working on this article, it shot up 22% — from $14,000 to $17,000 (hitting an intraday high of over $19,000). And that’s after a mind-blowing […]
Stranger Things
Stranger Things The hidden agenda in the so-called tax reform bill is to act as stop-gap quantitative easing to plug the “liquidity” hole that is opening up as the Federal Reserve (America’s central bank) makes a few gestures to winding down its balance sheet and “normalizing” interest rates. Thus, the aim of the tax […]
Pool of Funding the Heart of Economic Growth
POOL OF FUNDING THE HEART OF ECONOMIC GROWTH Most experts are of the view that massive monetary pumping by the US central bank, the Fed, during the 2008 financial crisis saved the US and the World from another Great Depression. If increases in money supply is an important catalyst for economic growth then the World […]
What Is Money? (Yes, We’re Talking About Bitcoin)
What Is Money? (Yes, We’re Talking About Bitcoin) Good ideas don’t require force. That describes the Internet, mobile telephony and cryptocurrencies. What is money? We all assume we know, because money is a commonplace feature of everyday life. Money is what we earn and exchange for goods and services. Everyone thinks the money they’re familiar […]
Money & Permaculture
MONEY & PERMACULTURE Money, though valuable in its own way, probably should not be the motivating factor for adopting a permaculture lifestyle, that is unless the idea is to escape the perils associated with it. Nonetheless, how and where money will come from seems to be one of the more frequently asked questions when I […]
Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity
Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity A few years back at a Leftish gathering a group of self-described Marxist economists channeled liberal Democrat Paul Krugman’s explanation of the Great Recession without apparently knowing of Mr. Krugman’s thesis. Basically, a self-perpetuating recession had a grip on the economy, Wall Street was a catalyst […]
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure
Corruption is Pervasive & Standard Operating Procedure COMMENT: I read your post on Trump, Jr. and it does appear obvious that there is no investigation into the whole Maginsky Act and why are Trump Jr.’s lawyers not exposing this more? It seems that corruption only really exists when it always involves government. KA ANSWER: Corruption […]
Deflation Must Be Embraced
DEFLATION MUST BE EMBRACED There are two problems with understanding deflation: it is ill defined, and it has a bad name. This article puts deflation into its proper context. This is an important topic for advocates of gold as money, who will be aware that sound money, in theory, leads to lower prices over time […]
