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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
 Better than the alternative  |
| As people age we sometimes hear them say it beats the alternative, which is usually left unsaid.It’s an old joke technology aims to eliminate by treating aging as a disease and curing it.
But there’s another sense in which the alternative is assumed to be far worse than the present condition. I’m referring to the type of government almost all people live under, which is the nation state. As bad as states might be — we’ve all been taught — it certainly beats the alternative, anarchy.
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| 11,000 KG GOLD FOR A PAINTING – WILL COST 110 KG IN 2025 |
| What is absolutely certain is that global wealth will be totally decimated in the next 4-8 years. It doesn’t matter if you are very rich or “just own a house” with some equity left. Most of it will come down in value by 75-95% in the next few years as the debt and asset bubbles implode.
But what very few people realise or plan for, is the confiscation of wealth that will take place in coming years. There will be confiscation on many levels.
With times deteriorating, governments will be thrown ouThursday, November 23, 2017 |
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 | Bill Holter |
| Cryptocurrencies And Avoiding The "Poof Moment"… |
| I have been asked my opinion regarding cryptocurrencies. Let’s start by saying I have no doubt within only a short time, “crypto currencies” will be issued and embraced by central banks. This is not to say I am endorsing Bitcoin, Ethereum or any other digital currency. It is even possible that not a single existing crypto will exist when central banks finally make their leap. Issuing and embracing cryptos make total sense from the standpoint of central banks for several reasons. First, what crypWednesday, September 20, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Cryptocurrencies and avoiding the “poof moment”… |
| I am writing this at the behest of David Schectman for Miles Franklin readers as he wanted my opinion on cryptocurrencies. Let’s start by saying I have no doubt within only a short time, “crypto currencies” will be issued and embraced by central banks. This is not to say I am endorsing Bitcoin, Ethereum or any other digital currency. It is even possible that not a single existing crypto will exist when central banks finally make their leap.
Issuing and embracing cryptos make total sense from Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Noah Smith: Digital currencies won't kill the dollar but still may change the world |
| Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., recently slammed bitcoin in no uncertain terms: It "won't end well," he said, calling the cryptocurrency a "fraud" and "worse than tulip bulbs."
Is Dimon right? It depends. In at least two important ways, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will probably fail to achieve the dreams of their creators and enthusiasts. They are unlikely to usher in a hard-money revolution, and are also unlikely to supplant national fiat currencies as the standard means ofFriday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
In the Dark  |
| The stock market is zooming this morning on the news that only 5.7 million people in Florida will have to do without air conditioning, hot showers, and Keurig mochachinos at dawn’s early light Monday, Sept 11, 2017. I’m mindful that the news cycle right after a hurricane goes kind of blank for a day or more as dazed and confused citizens venture out to assess the damage. For now, there is very little hard information on the Web waves. Does Key West still exist? Hard to tell. We’ll know more thisMonday, September 11, 2017 |
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| Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
DEBT SLAVERY + FAKE MONEY = FINAL COLLAPSE  |
| Over the last 150 years, the West has gone from human slavery to debt slavery. Slavery was officially outlawed in most countries between the mid 1800s and early 1900s. In the British Empire, it was abolished in 1834 and in the US in 1865 with the 13th amendment.
But it didn’t take long for a different and much more subtle form of slavery to be introduced. It started officially in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. More than 100 years before that, the German banker MaMonday, August 7, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Dynamics of a Riot - Jeff Thomas |
| In my lifetime, I’ve had the misfortune of being present in two major
natural disasters and one violent social crisis. Each taught me
valuable lessons.
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, there’s the danger of the
loss of shelter, services and food. In most cases, people who experience
the loss of shelter and services realise that “things are bad all
around” and they tend to do the best they can, accepting that life will
be hard for a period of time.
Food is a different matter. People,Monday, July 31, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Doom Journalism has become Fake News |
| (GLOBALINTELHUB.COM) — 7/22/2017 — The internet is exploding with ‘reports’ of ‘potential cataclysms’ including but not limited to erupting super volcanoes, EMP attack from North Korea (or Nuclear attack from North Korea), or just plain good old fashioned American insurrection (which all should note, will void most insurance policies). The research team at Global Intel Hub has been investigating global intelligence since 2001 (It was 9/11 that started a chain of events that would lead to the foSunday, July 23, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The End Of The Cycle: “The Government Will Gladly Enter A War To Cleanse The Balance Sheet And Cull The Herd” |
| In the days following the 241st anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the country is in an even more precarious position than it was in 1776. We face a situation of a fiat currency about to collapse as the consumer-based economy follows. Whether orchestrated by our imperialistic government or following actions of a hostile foreign nation (prompted or unprompted) the government will gladly enter a war to “cleanse” the balance sheet and cull the herd. Concurrently, the Saturday, July 8, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Shock Footage: Protester Shot Dead On Live TV During Venezuelan Riots |
| We’ve repeatedly warned our readers that a collapse of life as we know it in America would quickly devolve into violence, looting and outright anarchy. As the economic landscape in America deteriorates it is likely only a matter of time before millions of starving Americans make their way to the streets in protest. When that happens they’ll be met with a heavily armed response. It’ll start with tear gas and rubber bullets, but that won’t be enough to stave off the starving and hopeless masses, sMonday, June 26, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| The Golden Revolution, Revisited: Chapter 3 |
| This Insight is the fifth in the serial publication of the new, Revisited edition of my book, The Golden Revolution (John Wiley and Sons, 2012). (The first instalment can be found here.) The book is being published by Goldmoney and will also appear as a special series of Goldmoney Insights over the coming months. This instalment comprises the third chapter of Section I.View the Entire Research Piece as a PDF here.The Sources of Economic "Inequality"“Why have labor market institutions and social Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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| George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| The patsy and the culprit |
| When was the last time you heard someone call for the abolition of government — government as we’ve known it?
Why would anyone want to abolish government? Isn’t it necessary, at least for purposes of common defense and resolution of disputes? Since the absence of government is anarchy, wouldn’t we be at the mercy of gangs and warlords?
If the warlords argument is true in all cases, isn’t that proof we need a coercive government to rule us? If it isn’t true in all cases, do we have a peaMonday, June 5, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Ransomware Is Tip Of The Iceberg: “You Could See 90 Of Americans Die As A Result Of A Prolonged Power Outage Because The Grid Gets Hacked” |
| The Ransomware that began spreading across the globe on Friday is still going with more computers reportedly being affected today by new variants of the virus.
What we’ve learned is that the attack hasn’t just taken down personal computers, but core government and business networks affecting everything from health care systems and transportation in Europe, to ATM withdrawals in China.
It’s massive, to be sure. But in the grand scheme of things, up to this point, it has been a fairly minor inconvMonday, May 15, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| The Alternative Currency of a 19th Century Abolitionist |
| Via The Daily Bell
Have you ever had the dream of starting your own society? What about introducing a new currency? Turns out Bitcoin was far from the first private currency.
Josiah Warren didn’t like the political system, and he didn’t like the economic system, so he started his own little alternative community, with a unique medium of exchange. Warren actually started multiple “anarchist” micro-societies, with varying levels of success. Although he never called himself an anarchist, he believeWednesday, May 10, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Paris Afterparty |
| First mistake: Emmanuel Macron’s handlers played Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” instead of the French national anthem at the winner’s election rally. Well, at least they didn’t play “Deutschland Über Alles.” The tensions in the Euroland situation remain: the 20 percent-plus youth unemployment, the papered-over insolvency of the European banks, and the implacable contraction of economic activity, especially at the southern rim of the EU.
The clash of civilizations brought on by the EU’s self-induced reMonday, May 8, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| The Curse of the Thinking Class |
| Let’s suppose there really is such a thing as The Thinking Class in this country, if it’s not too politically incorrect to say so — since it implies that there is another class, perhaps larger, that operates only on some limbic lizard-brain level of impulse and emotion. Personally, I believe there is such a Thinking Class, or at least I have dim memories of something like it.
The farfetched phenomenon of Trumpism has sent that bunch on a journey to a strange land of the intellect, a place like tMonday, March 27, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Non-Farm Payrolls on Friday |
| "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity...
And what rough Beast, its hour come 'round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919
The Fed did nothing today, and their jawbones must have been fatigued.
Stocks continued in a relatively narThursday, February 2, 2017 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| The War on Cash and Then on Gold |
| Technical analyst Clive Maund says liquidity issues with banks could lead to restrictions on cash and precious metals.
The global financial system continues to groan under the strain of the accumulated weight of trillions of dollars worth of debt and derivatives, which have built up to even more fantastic levels than those that precipitated the near collapse in 2008, thanks to the policy of solving liquidity problems near term by creating even more debtTuesday, December 20, 2016 |
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 | Clive Maund |
| The War on Cash and then on Gold |
| The global financial system continues to groan under the strain of the accumulated weight of trillions of dollars worth of debt and derivatives, which have built up to even more fantastic levels than those that precipitated the near collapse in 2008, thanks to the policy of solving liquidity problems near-term by creating even more debt and derivatives, Quantitative Easing being the most obvious example. However, while the majority consider the situation to be hopeless, there is actually “light Monday, December 19, 2016 |
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