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The Economic Collapse Blog Has Issued A RED ALERT For The Last Six Months Of 2015
The Economic Collapse Blog Has Issued A RED ALERT For The Last Six Months Of 2015 I have never done anything like this before. Ever since I started The Economic Collapse Blog in late 2009, I have never issued any kind of “red alert” for any specific period of time. As an attorney, I was […]
In Gold We Trust 2015
In Gold We Trust 2015 The Gold Standard of Gold Reports is Back As every year around this time, our good friends Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, the managers of the Incrementum Fund, have published their annual “In Gold We Trust” report, the extended version of which can be downloaded below. This year’s report is […]
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’
Warren Buffett: Derivatives Are Still Weapons Of Mass Destruction And ‘Are Likely To Cause Big Trouble’ After all these years, the most famous investor in the world still believes that derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. And you know what? He is exactly right. The next great global financial collapse that so many are warning […]
The Logic of Interventionism, or How to Wake up in a Prison
The Logic of Interventionism, or How to Wake up in a Prison Archaic Financial Freedom The mainstream press is still full of articles about the alleged evils of cash, which we regard as a typical “trial balloon” launched by the powers-that-be. The way this works is that they get a repressive measure they indent to […]
Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing
Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing Michel Bauwens is one of the pioneers of the peer-to-peer movement. Theoretician, activist, and public speaker, he founded the P2P Foundation in 2005. His work, both rich and complex, is built around the concepts of networks and commons, and lays the conceptual foundations of a production system […]
Our Phantom Economy
Our Phantom Economy Those who believe that phantom recoveries and phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next downturn. Stripped of artifice, there are only two kinds of media stories: those that support the status quo narrative, and those that are skeptical of that narrative. What is the status […]
The One Bank, Revisited
The One Bank, Revisited Approximately two years ago; a commentary was published entitled “The One Bank”. The empirical foundation for the article (and the paradigm) was an extensive computer model, produced by a trio of academics at a university in Switzerland, and originally reviewed in an article from Forbes. The gist of the computer modeling was that a single “super-entity”, by […]
The Government and the Currency
The Government and the Currency [Human Action (1949)] Reprinted from Mises.org Media of exchange and money are market phenomena. What makes a thing a medium of exchange or money is the conduct of parties to market transactions. An occasion for dealing with monetary problems appears to the authorities in the same way in which they concern themselves with […]
A PhD in Monetary Catastrophe
A PhD in Monetary Catastrophe Editor’s Note: As you know, Bill believes the U.S. is about to experience a violent monetary shock. So today, we’re sharing with you a classic from the archives. It’s Bill’s firsthand account of Argentina’s monetary crisis. But as an American, you may eventually experience a very similar situation … Cash […]
Local Production Means Jobs and Prosperity
Local Production Means Jobs and Prosperity With over 93 million unemployed working age adults in America and the economy beginning to go negative again, if you are fortunate enough to have a job it may not last much longer. It is easy to keep a positive attitude about the economy when you get a paycheck every […]
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work…
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work… Editor’s Note: Today, we’re running an urgent warning from Bill. It’s about theviolent monetary shock he sees coming. This may sound strange… But the catastrophic scenario Bill outlines below is potentially a much bigger threat than even the out-of-control national debt. Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM […]
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression Underneath the Propaganda, the Economy Is In BAD Shape … We noted 3 years ago that the velocity of money – an important economic indicator – is lower than during the Great Depression. Things have gotten even worse since since […]
Farming: A Not-For-Profit Enterprise?
Farming: A Not-For-Profit Enterprise? I am just musing now, as in a-muse, not advocating and criticizing. What if the economics of money profit and loss, under capitalism, or socialism, or a monarchy or any other system, doesn’t really work for farming. Maybe growing food is supposed to be a not-for-profit enterprise, a part of our […]
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets Every great con game eventually comes to an end. For years, global central banks have been manipulating the financial marketplace with their monetary voodoo. Somehow, they have convinced investors around the world to invest tens of trillions of dollars into bonds that provide a return that […]
Gold Verses Fractional Reserves Part 2
Gold Verses Fractional Reserves Part 2 The Harmful Consequences We have now to examine the harm that the system does whether or not the pressure to reduce the reserve requirements is continuously successful. Let us begin with a situation in, say, Ruritania, which has a fractional-reserve gold standard and a central bank, but in which […]
