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Barcelona Threatens to Print Parrallel Currency, Madrid Seethes
Barcelona Threatens to Print Parrallel Currency, Madrid Seethes Over the next six months, Barcelona’s left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world. The main goal of the project, according to a council spokesperson, is to boost economic opportunities for […]
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization
Derrick Jensen has Inspired Me to Question Civilization Photo: Hartwig HKD/Flickr CC. I rode my horse out through the woods the other day. It was a beautiful Autumn afternoon as golden light filtered through the trees. My horse was keen to graze in an open meadow, so we found a spot where he could forage for […]
Liam Fox on Sound Money
Liam Fox on Sound Money Liam Fox has written a piece in The Times on sound money: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/regulars/guestcolumn/article1620451.ece Dr Fox also spoke at the IEA this morning about sound money and how it can be achieved: http://www.iea.org.uk/events/keynote-speech-the-rt-hon-dr-liam-fox-mp The title of the speech will be: “The Road to Honest Money” In his speech, Dr Fox will highlight […]
Six Ways You Can Make More Money To Buy More Preps (Or Just Pay Off Your Bills)
Six Ways You Can Make More Money To Buy More Preps (Or Just Pay Off Your Bills) I get thousands of emails each month (usually over 3,000 to be exact) and the one problem that I see mentioned over and over is a lack of money to prep, and while I try to keep the advice […]
Gold Standard Nonsense Compelling Us To Repeat History
Gold Standard Nonsense Compelling Us To Repeat History COMMENT: “The system is collapsing. It is not because of some derivatives bubble. It is not because of fiat. This is because of the debt gone wild” Sure! And you don’t see the connection with the lack of a gold standard? This would never have happened during […]
Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money?
Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Thank you for coming to Athens. After the presentation, there were so many questions that the moderator did not have time for. You answered some for the crowd afterwards that I had never heard anyone ever explain. You said Quantitative Easing was not money printing […]
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II)
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part II) A Lehman Moment for Commodities? LONDON – Today, we continue our philosophical look at what you should do if you are running out of time and money. (You can catch up on Part I here.) Where do we begin? With how to add wealth? Or how to lose it? The […]
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man in debt is so far a slave.” Money has no intrinsic value yet we spend our days damaging our health and spirit in order to obtain it. Why do we sacrifice our well-being for it? Is it the cliché that […]
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth?
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth? It’s about so much more than just money Recently, author and “de-growth activist” Charles Eisenstein stopped by the Martenson homestead while traveling on business. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chris sat him down to record an impromptu discussion on the nature of wealth. As should come as little surprise to Peak […]
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part I)
The Baby Boomer Survival Guide (Part I) The Yellow Machines Go Silent PARIS – What should you do if you are running out of time and money? This is the question we get from readers over 50… over 60… and sometimes over 70. We baby boomers were famously “na… na… na… live for today.” Now, […]
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money «I dare to say that we have not yet seen the most radical brainwaves of the mandarins running our central banks.» (Bild: Roderick Aichinger) James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the investment journal «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns of ever more extreme central bank policies and bets […]
‘Sanction Spiral’: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Soar
‘Sanction Spiral’: Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Soar The infamous “sanction spiral” imposed on Russia by the US and Europe with such fanfare last year in the wake of the Ukrainian fiasco has receded from Western headlines. In Russia, it coagulated with the oil price plunge, and during the first two quarters this year, the economy […]
US Credit Growth – the First Cracks?
US Credit Growth – the First Cracks? Inflationary Bank Lending and Money Supply Growth Given that there is currently no “QE” program underway – with the exception of the reinvestment scheme designed to prevent the Fed’s balance sheet from shrinking (if it were to shrink, the money supply would decline as well) – money supply […]
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources Disproving the fatal assumption central planners make Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough. As any fourth grader will tell you, […]
