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Central Banks Have Printed $22 Trillion Worth Of New Credit Since 2008

Last week we wrote about how global central banks have created an economic time machine by forcing $17 trillion worth of bond yields below zero percent, which is now 30% of the entire developed world’s supply. Now it’s time to … Continue reading

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Maund: The Great Precious Metals’ Melt-Up

The distinguishing feature of fiat money systems is that they are licentious—they are created by corrupt politicians so that they can act without restraint by, for example, promising the citizens the earth in order to improve their chances of being … Continue reading

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Unsound money, unsound economy

Most people who have undertaken a formal study of economics end up accepting such things as the necessity of a central bank to prevent or at least ameliorate recessions. They take as a given the need for government intervention in … Continue reading

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The History of the World is a History of Gold

The history of gold is nearly as long as the history of human civilisation. Gold has been inextricably linked to human civilisations since at least 6000 BC. There is absolutely no way of looking at the history of the world … Continue reading

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The End?: If The Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates Now, It Will Be An Admission That A Recession Is Coming

So there is a lot of buzz that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates – and it might actually happen. We’ll see. But if it does happen, it will directly contradict the carefully crafted narrative about the … Continue reading

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An “Earnings Recession” Is Here…

Big Companies All Over America Are Reporting Disastrous Financial Results If the U.S. economy really was “booming”, then corporate earnings would be rising. But that isn’t happening. In fact, we haven’t seen corporate earnings fall like this since the last … Continue reading

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Crooked Bankers…

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Honest money would destroy today’s world…

Honest money is a widely-accepted medium of exchange that arises solely from voluntary market exchanges and maintains its value solely from voluntary market exchanges. People once settled on gold and silver coins as their preferred money, but we have long … Continue reading

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Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy… The Economy Killed Millennials

The American system has thrown them into debt, depressed their wages, kept them from buying homes—and then blamed them for everything. When a staid American institution is declared dead, the news media like to haul the same usual suspect before … Continue reading

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Three Steps To Save America From Collapse

Our monetary system is broken. It’s given us low growth, a shrinking job force, inequality beyond what a healthy economy would produce, inefficiency, and the unnatural growth of finance as a portion of the economy. Our aging Federal Reserve System … Continue reading

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