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Want To Invest In Farmland? Here’s How
Want To Invest In Farmland? Here’s How There are now more options than ever (without having farm the land yourself!) Farmland is a “holy grail” asset class for many investors. It’s tangible, produces income, and has inherent underlying value — making it a great inflation hedge. It’s supply constrained. Mother Nature isn’t making any more […]
Here’s The Problem: The Pie Is Shrinking
Here’s The Problem: The Pie Is Shrinking At that point, the only way to enable debt-serfs to service their debts is too give them free money, i.e. Universal Basic Income (UBI). Scrape away the churn and distraction and the problem is simple: the pie of prosperity is shrinking, and the “fixes” are failing. The status quo […]
As The Perfect Storm Approaches, Most Americans Are Partying Instead Of Preparing
As The Perfect Storm Approaches, Most Americans Are Partying Instead Of Preparing I can’t think of a time when Americans were more apathetic about getting prepared, and yet this is exactly the time when the urgency to get prepared should be at the highest. Earlier today, my wife Meranda and I were discussing the fact […]
How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide
How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide The “waterbed effect” of money flows. Top residential real estate brokerages in the US have been promoting US homes to investors in China for years. Brokerage firms in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries have […]
Gold Should be Viewed as Money — Not as an Investment Instrument
Gold Should be Viewed as Money — Not as an Investment Instrument On May 4 and 5, 2018, Warren E. Buffett (born 1930) and Charles T. Munger (born 1924), both already legends during their lifetime, held the annual shareholders’ meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Approximately 42,000 visitors gathered in Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the star […]
Debt Has No Consequences? Color Me Skeptical
Debt Has No Consequences? Color Me Skeptical The entire status quo is based on the delusion that rapidly rising debt will never generate any negative consequences. Here’s a chart of America’s national debt, extended a mere dozen years into the future: the current $20 trillion in debt will double to $40 trillion, and that assumes […]
Private Capital Allocation Matching Only the Great Depression for Inefficiency
Private Capital Allocation Matching Only the Great Depression for Inefficiency The Summary: Economic policy objectives (monetary and fiscal) are meant to incentivize domestic private business investment, which drives incomes and the money multiplier effect, i.e. the engine of the economy. Economic policy objectives have failed because CEO’s, the private capital allocators, simply cannot accommodate business […]
Why Investing In Silver Is Vastly Superior To Investing In Gold Right Now
Why Investing In Silver Is Vastly Superior To Investing In Gold Right Now When panic and fear dominate financial markets, gold and silver both tend to rapidly rise in price. We witnessed this during the last financial crisis, and it is starting to happen again. Because I am the publisher of a website called The Economic […]
Discovery
Discovery It looks like 2016 will be the year that humanfolk learn that the stuff they value was not worth as much as they thought it was. It will be a harrowing process because a great many humans are abandoning ownership of things that are rapidly losing value — e.g. stocks on the Shanghai exchange […]
Debunking Anti-Gold Propaganda
Debunking Anti-Gold Propaganda A meme is now circulating that gold is the investment equivalent of a pet rock, and that the smart investor should sell gold, and buy stocks. That’s a ridiculous notion. In fact, if you believe in buying low and selling high, this is the time to buy gold, and sell stocks. It […]
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH
FED LUNACY IS TO BLAME FOR THE COMING CRASH This week John Hussman’s pondering about the state of our markets is as clear and concise as it’s ever been. He starts off by describing the difference between an economy operating at a low level versus a high level. He’s essentially describing a 2% GDP economy […]
If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest
If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest The are much better ways to spend the next $1 Trillion We are at an important juncture as a global society: either we immediately prioritize a new trajectory focused on creating a positive, functional future or — by continuing the consumptive, extractive, exploitative status […]
