Posted on August 31, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) The mainstream news has been awash lately in talk over the danger of economic “contagion,” primarily due to lack of dollar liquidity in emerging markets. This lack of liquidity is being pegged as a trigger for instability in stocks, bonds and forex markets around the world, and this time around it is the nation ...
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Posted on August 6, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) There is a disconnect within the liberty movement over the notion of where to find the root source of globalism. A segment of people within the movement seem to think that the fount of globalism resides within America itself; that American imperialism is the foundation of the globalist scheme and the dollar is the ...
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Posted on August 6, 2018 by james-tracy
What if the United States maintained a silver backing for the dollar, which it abandoned in 1964? How much things cost in 1933 vs today if we still had a silver backed dollar ($21.60 price conversation). Average Cost of new house $5,750.00 Today $124,200 Average wages per year $1,550.00 Today $33,480 Cost of a gallon ...
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Posted on July 22, 2018 by sartre
Throughout history, holding public officials accountable for wrongdoing has been elusive even under the most moral regimes. As an ordinary practice, crime pays, especially in public office. Personal gain is an obvious offense. However, misdemeanors against specific persons, entire classes of people or even crimes against humanity are routinely committed in the normal course of ...
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Posted on July 21, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market.com) There has been a lot of confusion lately in the mainstream economic media as well as in independent media circles as to the behavior of stock markets in the wake of the recently initiated global trade war. In particular, stocks suffered one of the longest runs of negative days in their history in ...
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Posted on July 4, 2018 by sartre
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 ...
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Posted on June 27, 2018 by sartre
People are dumb because they do not know and refuse to learn the real history behind world events. Educational institutions do not function as seekers of truth, but as gatekeepers for narratives that defy common sense and defame historical facts. Society fosters the ultimate taboo against chronicles that differ with the established story of distortions ...
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Posted on June 20, 2018 by michael-snyder
If the Federal Reserve really wanted to hurt the U.S. economy, the quickest way that it could do that would be by aggressively raising interest rates. Lower interest rates make it less expensive to borrow money, and therefore economic activity tends to expand in a low interest rate environment. Alternatively, higher interest rates make it ...
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Posted on June 19, 2018 by michael-snyder
Since 1913, the Federal Reserve has engaged in 18 distinct interest rate hiking campaigns, and in every single one of those instances the end result was a large stock market decline, a recession, or both. Now we are in the 19th rate tightening cycle since 1913, but many of the experts are insisting that things ...
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Posted on May 27, 2018 by michael-snyder
The U.S. economy is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. A few days ago I wrote about a new study that discovered that nearly 51 million U.S. households “can’t afford basics like rent and food”, and just yesterday I discussed the fact that we are on pace for the ...
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Posted on May 11, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) It is at times frustrating, but also interesting, to witness the progression of the mainstream’s awareness of economic crisis within the U.S. over the years. As an alternative economist, I have had the “privilege” of perching outside the financial narrative and observing our economy from a less biased position, and I have discovered a ...
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Posted on April 21, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) Back in March 2010 I published an article titled ‘Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?’ under the pen name Giordano Bruno describing what I felt would be the most effective triggers for a new global conflict. In that article I pointed to Syria as the primary powder keg, followed in close second by Iran and ...
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Posted on April 11, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) There is a mass delusion in the mainstream created I think in large part by too much exposure to movie fantasy and TV fiction. It is an immediate assumption; one that I believe is far more dangerous than many people give it credit for. The assumption is that the next great war, should it ...
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Posted on April 6, 2018 by guest-post
By Birch Gold Group | This past week, the Fed raised interest rates by 0.25%. The effective Fed fund rate is now 1.63% – the highest since the big market crash of 2008. However, it could get as high as 3.375% by 2020. The decade 2020 – 2029 could see a high-tech version of the early-1980’s when ...
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Posted on March 30, 2018 by brandon-smith
(Alt-Market) Public sentiment on the economy is generally influenced by to two false indicators — the national unemployment rate and stock markets. This is not to say the average person tracks either of these numbers very vigorously; they don’t. What they do is hear these numbers on the morning news, the radio news on ...
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