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We Need the Pain that Comes with More Saving
We Need the Pain that Comes with More Saving The endgame of monetary side manipulations is upon us. Since 2008, central banks have done what they thought was needed to bring the markets back from the pain they experienced during the crash. The problem, of course, is that these Keynesians and Monetarists placed the high […]
Money is not a store of value. It is a claim upon value
Money is not a store of value. It is a claim upon value Note: This was originally published as a response to the Aeon Conversations piece ‘What is Money‘ Money is not a store of value. It is a claim upon value. This might sound like pedantic semantics, but it is crucially important, especially if you’re […]
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money The 12.5 hours spent crossing the Pacific on Qantas flight 27 feels like going through a wormhole. The flight departs Sydney, Australia at 12:50pm and arrives to Santiago, Chile the same day at 11:20am. In other words, the plane lands 90 minutes before it […]
Pictorial Essay: Message to the Voting Cattle
Pictorial Essay: Message to the Voting Cattle Our own awesome ‘wip’ posted this video in another thread, and asked me to listen to it. I did, and it’s freaking fabulous. I agree with about 95% of it. It explains as well as I’ve ever heard, why I say we should all vote for Candidate Nobody. […]
Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax
Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax Have you heard of “negative interest rates”? It’s become a phenomenon with economists and the media. There’s a good chance you’ve read an article about it. We’ve covered it many times in the Dispatch. I’m writing to tell you something about negative interest rates you haven’t heard. You certainly […]
Onward to a Golden Age: The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien Attacks Ted Cruz for Supporting the Gold Standard
ONWARD TO A GOLDEN AGE: THE WASHINGTON POST’S MATT O’BRIEN ATTACKS TED CRUZ FOR SUPPORTING THE GOLD STANDARD Matt O’Brien — the anti-gold standard columnist ofThe Washington Post — at last has struck back at Ted Cruz for his advocacy for a “rules-based monetary supply, ideally tied to gold.” O’Brien’s reactionary blast was fully expected and somewhat […]
Are Asian Central Bankers Even Crazier Than Our Own?
Are Asian Central Bankers Even Crazier Than Our Own? That the world’s central bankers get a lot of things wrong, deliberately or not, and have done so for years now, is nothing new. But that they do things that result in the exact opposite of what they ostensibly aim for, and predictably so, perhaps is. […]
The Fatal Flaw That Has Doomed Our Economy
The Fatal Flaw That Has Doomed Our Economy What Went Wrong? BALTIMORE – We are searching for an insight. Each time we think we see it… like the shadow of a ghost in an old photo… it gets away from us. It concerns the real nature of our money system… and what’s wrong with it. […]
Gold — the Hedge Against Government
Gold — the Hedge Against Government While government may see gold as a barbaric relic of monetary history, it still will serve as a hedge against them from the private individual side. Our biggest problem is the hunt for money. They are of the opinion that it is not their fiscal mismanagement that is causing […]
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit Credit is not innately good or bad. Simplistically, productive Credit is constructive, while non-productive Credit is inevitably problematic. This crucial distinction tends to be masked throughout the boom period. Worse yet, a prolonged boom in “productive” Credit – surely fueled by some type of underlying monetary disorder – can […]
How to Defeat Your Government
How to Defeat Your Government In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful adversarial tactic is “getting one’s enemies to fool themselves.” The article detailed the effective use of this tactic by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The […]
Three Reasons to Be Worried About the Economy
Three Reasons to Be Worried About the Economy On January 12, America’s central planner-in-chief gave his State of the Union address. The president promised nothing less than to feed the hungry, create jobs, shape the earth’s climate, and make everyone a college graduate. There’s nothing new here, though. We’ve heard variations of this silly song […]
