Wealth Cycles Video Report – February 2015
Hello and Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the WealthCylces Video Report. The past month was relatively quiet after last month’s shock of the Swiss National Bank de-pegging from the euro, but...
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed
Submitted by Patrick Barron via Mises Canada blog, “Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended...
View ArticleHow Money Creation Threatens Hyperinflation
Submitted by Patrick Barron via Mises Canada, In order to understand the relationship between money creation and the price level, we first need to get some definitions straight. To Austrians the terms...
View ArticleA Full Analysis and Step-by-Step Guide for EU Area Residents To Aid In...
Here come capital controls in Europe. Of that, I have little doubt. Actually, they are already here, both in legislative form and in action. Let’s walk through what they are, why they’re here, how they...
View ArticleThe War On Cash: Transparently Totalitarian
Submitted by Nick Giambruno via Doug Casey's International Man blog, George Orwell once wrote “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.” Not exactly a...
View ArticleBank Reserves & Loans: The Fed is Pushing On A String
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, The money multiplier effect no longer works. As you (hopefully) know, we live in a fractional reserve banking system: if the bank is required to...
View ArticleIs Switzerland The Ultimate Safe Haven For Liberty And Wealth?
Submitted by Claudio Grass via Acting-Man.com, Dangerous Freedom versus Peaceful Slavery At Global Gold, I am often asked what we would do if, for example, the US were to come out with a confiscation...
View ArticleLow Wages & Unemployment Are An Existential Crisis For Millions
Submitted by Daniel Drew via Dark-Bid.com, This post is a response to The End of Meaningful Work: A World of Machines and Social Alienation, an article I posted earlier. It is conducted in an interview...
View ArticleThe Question Is Not Is Deutsche Bank the Next Lehman, It’s “Is Lehman the...
So,Tyler just ran an interesting piece titled “Is Deutsche Bank The Next Lehman?” There is one correction that needs to be made where Tyler says “Probably the first public indication that things were...
View ArticleWhy Keynesian Voodoo Doesn’t Work?
Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk via Bawerk.net, Keynesian policy of manipulating economic “aggregates” through countercyclical macro-measures appeared to work when balance sheets were not stretched...
View ArticleThose Who Heeded My Advice on Setting Up A Veritaseum “Bail-In” Contingency...
Two months ago I penned “EU Area Residents’ Step-by-Step Guide to Escaping the Upcoming Bank Bail-ins & Capital Controls“. It was a very dense, information packed piece – and as recent events have...
View ArticleUnsound Banking: Why Most Of The World’s Banks Are Headed For Collapse
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we’re sure officials at central...
View ArticleWhy China Will End Up Like Japan
Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk via Bawerk.net, When Nixon took the dollar off gold on August 15th 1971 he did not end the Bretton-Woods arrangement. On the contrary, he exacerbated the very same...
View ArticleGold And The Grave Dancers
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to...
View ArticleWhy Government Hates Cash
Submitted by Joseph Salerno via The Mises Institute, In April it was announced that Greece was imposing a surcharge for all cash withdrawals from bank accounts to deter citizens from clearing out their...
View ArticleAustrian Economics Is Now Equivalent To Terrorism Thanks To Latest Islamic...
What better way to mute demands for a return to sound money and the gold standard, than by making them equivalent to jihadist terrorism? Why, there are none, which is why some were thoroughly amused to...
View ArticleChinese Stocks Slump After “Arrest-Fest”, Yuan Strengthens Most In 9 Months,...
Update: So much for the "no more intervention" Since the government bailout fund has run dry of money, the brokerages have to step up – CHINA SAID TO ORDER BROKERAGES TO BOOST STOCK MARKET SUPPORT A...
View ArticleThe Concept Of Money And The Money Illusion
Submitted by Koos Jansen via BullionStar.com, Awareness about the concept of money is making a comeback. Gone are the decades in which the global citizenry was fooled to leave this subject to...
View ArticleEurope’s Banks – Insolvent Zombies
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, The Walking Dead Now that Europe’s fractionally reserved banking system has been regulated into complete inertia, it is a good time to assess the...
View ArticleBanks Turn Down Deposits As Stealth NIRP Takes Hold
Back in February, we noted that NIRP had officially (albeit technically) arrived in the US as JP Morgan announced it was preparing to charge some large institutional customers for deposits. Between...
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