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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 […]

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U.S. Gold Market Switches From A Surplus In 2016 To Deficit In 2017

U.S. Gold Market Switches From A Surplus In 2016 To Deficit In 2017 The U.S. gold market suffered a net deficit this year compared to a small surplus in 2016.  This was quite interesting because U.S. physical gold demand will be down considerably this year.  In 2016, total U.S. gold demand was 212 metric tons […]

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Surplus or Stimulus

Surplus or Stimulus René Magritte Le Cri du Coeur 1960 Austerity is over, proclaimed the IMF this week. And no doubt attributed that to the ‘successful’ period of ‘five years of belt tightening’ a.k.a. ‘gradual fiscal consolidation’ it has, along with its econo-religious ilk, imposed on many of the world’s people. Only, it’s not true […]

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Austrians vs. The World On Canadian Fiscal Austerity

Austrians vs. The World On Canadian Fiscal Austerity I don’t know whether this is something the average Canadian discusses over coffee, but the sharp fiscal turnaround in the mid-1990s is still providing fodder for today’s economists to argue. In September 2014, I summarized the Canadian budget triumph, in which the federal government turned its deficit into […]

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How Harper Put Canada Massively in the Red

How Harper Put Canada Massively in the Red He ate up a huge federal surplus, piled up six deficits. This PM wants to run on fiscal smarts? Last in series In the run up to the 2015 federal election, the Harper government will try to convince Canadians that the prime minister and his crew have […]

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Potemkin on the Pacific—–Abenomics Is Still Failing

Potemkin on the Pacific—–Abenomics Is Still Failing For the first time since June 2012 Japan has attained a trade surplus. It is, however, premature to interpret that as an end to the impoverishment the island has undertaken these past three years, the last two under QQE. There are various reasons for the end of the […]

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Brazil’s Economy Just Imploded | Zero Hedge

Brazil’s Economy Just Imploded | Zero Hedge. China may have mastered the art of fabricating economic data to a level unmatched by anyone except the US Department of Labor, but its derivative countries have much to learn. And none other more so than one of China’s favorite sources of commodities over the past decade: Brazil. […]

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