Economy

Is it Wise to Buy Gold?

The Powers-that-Be, who control or manipulate almost all of the media, including “alternative”, are continually running thousands of ads, or “commentaries” (which are ads in disguise), promoting the purchasing of gold as a hedge against the coming economic tribulation.  This is perhaps even more prolific in the “alternative” media, as this is their foundational demographic, who then share their “insights” ...Read More »

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The 10 Daily Habits Of Frugal People

There’s a big movement towards frugality afoot these days. It probably has something to do with our declining economy, record unemployment levels, and the increasing price of food, but only the wisest families are paying attention to these things. The rest of the folks are blithely going on as they always have, wondering why on ...Read More »

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Carl Menger And The Real Bills Doctrine

In the Daily Bell’s recent interview, Dr. Antal Fekete: Blowing Up Modern Austrian Economics … in a Good Way, Professor Antal E. Fekete addresses the foundational economic work and understanding of “Real Bill” money by Carl Menger. Reviewing this subject, may be a new experience for most and for mainline economists a topic that is problematic. How ...Read More »

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The Worst Part Is Central Bankers Know Exactly What They Are Doing

The best position for a tyrant or tyrants to be in, at least while consolidating power, is tyranny by proxy. That is to say, the most dangerous tyrants are those the people do not recognize: the tyrants who hide behind scarecrows and puppets and faceless organizations. The worst position for the common citizen to be ...Read More »

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It’s Time For A Personal Audit Of Your Frugal Living Budget

When is the last time you sat down and took a very close look at your budget? And by close, I mean an accounting of every single dime you spend, including that drive-thru coffee and the paperback you bought that you could have borrowed from the library. There’s no reason you shouldn’t run your home ...Read More »

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CNNIA

I can tell you from firsthand eyewitness experience, that there has been an ongoing, yet secretive, civil war among the highest departmental levels of American government for a very long time, perhaps since the end of the first American civil war (circa 1865), as the modern political “Red and Blue map” clearly denotes an almost ...Read More »

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The Global Economy Continues To Turn, Even As It Continues To Crumble (VIDEO)

By: The Voice of Reason | For anyone who regularly follows Dr. Jim Willie, this two part interview with Perpetual Assets certainly will not disappoint. As usual, Dr. Willie delivers quite a few nuggets of information for the listener to chew on, all while we wait and see what happens in the the global banking ...Read More »

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As Predicted, Obamacare Is Absolutely Killing The Middle Class

The critics of Obamacare have been proven right.  The Obama administration promised that health insurance premiums would go down.  Instead, they have absolutely skyrocketed.  The Obama administration promised that Obamacare would not kill jobs.  Instead, firms are hiring fewer workers because of suffocating health care costs.  As you will see below, even the Federal Reserve ...Read More »

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Corporatist Lobbying Replaced A Free Market

The practice of a pure free market is so rare that a plausible argument can be made that a free market economy never existed. However, as the saying goes, Once Upon A Time, economic commerce did reflect a voluntary basis for business transactions. The fortunes of trade rested upon the mutual benefit of all parties, ...Read More »

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The Great G7 Swindle

(The Real Agenda News) The countries that are part of the G7 today are the same that have been members for years. The leaders that allegedly represent their countries in meetings such as the G7, have been in power for years, too. Every time these so-called leaders meet, their official goal is to “improve the ...Read More »

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What Is The Federal Reserve – And Why Is It Private?

Amazingly enough, most people don’t know that the Federal Reserve Bank is a private institution. It’s so private that despite its profound influence and power, no one is allowed to know who the board of directors are or any of its inner workings. Yet they control not just the production and flow of money in ...Read More »

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The Next Employment Crisis Is Here: Job Cuts At U.S. Companies Jump 35 Percent In April

Should we be alarmed that the number of job cuts announced by large U.S. companies was 35 percent higher in April than it was in March?  This is definitely a case where the trend is not our friend.  According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, U.S. firms announced 65,141 job cuts during April, which represented a ...Read More »

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Rail Traffic Depression: 292 Union Pacific Engines Are Sitting In The Arizona Desert Doing Nothing

We continue to get more evidence that the U.S. economy has entered a major downturn.  Just last week, I wrote about how U.S. GDP growth numbers have been declining for three quarters in a row, and previously I wrote about how corporate defaults have surged to their highest level since the last financial crisis.  Well, ...Read More »

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Gold And Silver ARE The Only Money [Hardly] In Existence.

By: Edge Trader Plus | Gold and silver ARE money.  Neither is a “currency,” although money is often cited as interchangeable with currency.  Take the Federal Reserve Note, [please!], as an example. A Federal Reserve Note [FRN], is more commonly known as a “dollar.”  Even though the word “dollar” appears on every FRN, each and ...Read More »

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Obama’s Economic Legacy: Thirdworldizing America

  The New York Times colluded with Obama, presenting the illusion of economic recovery, twisting reality, ignoring cold hard facts. Interviewed by its financial columnist Andrew Sorkin, a false picture of his economic record was presented. America’s 1% never had things better. Protracted Main Street Depression conditions affect most others. One out of four working-age ...Read More »

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