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 | Lew Rockwell |
| Open Borders |
| Many left libertarians demand open borders. Nations have no significance, they tell us. To think otherwise, to recognize any limits to immigration, arbitrarily restricts people’s liberty. Those of us who think otherwise, they say, are no better than fascists.
Joe Salerno’s brilliant and comprehensive article, “Mises on Nationalism, the Right to Self-Determination, and the Problem of Immigration” shows that Mises rejected the extreme anti-nationalist, open borders position.
As Salerno shows, MiseThursday, March 26, 2020 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Economic Nationalism |
| I thought that I would chew over the idea of “economic nationalism” for a bit, to see if we could find something useful in it. The neo-liberal free trade/no borders consensus is a little too easily promoted by many today, apparently without much thought. I am generally in the neo-liberal camp, but I wanted to think about it.
For some reason, “nationalism” is a naughty word these days, but all that it means is that one feels an allegiance to one’s “nation.” The main reason for the badmouthing of Tuesday, March 20, 2018 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
Another Quandary  |
| That crusty ole rascal, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, seems to be enjoying his sunset journey into Civil War Two or maybe the destination is more like Blade Runner (since we know that history only rhymes but does not repeat). Anyway, it’s not a good place. The once-golden state begins to look something like what one federal official recently called — dare I say it? — a shithole.
A mix of used hypodermic needles, human feces, and other trash litters the streets and sidewalks in a large sectionFriday, March 9, 2018 |
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 | Stewart Dougherty |
| Mr. President, If We Don’t Have Gold, We Don’t Have a Country |
| “Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. … Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.” Mao Tse-tung, proclaiming the founding of the People’s Republic of China, 1949Circumstantial evidence is mounting high that there is something seriously wrong with the amount of gold reportedly owned by the United States government, or more precisely, the American people.After nearly two generations of being brainwashed into believing that gold is a mWednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Will Stars Shine on Gold |
| Major blow to the EU! The populist Five Star Movement won about one-third of the votes in the Italian general elections. It’s another negative shock for the European establishment. Will these stars shine on gold?
Five Stars Movement Triumphs
We live in strange times. To be a hairstylist, you need a license. But you can become a politician being just a comedian and telling jokes. We refer here to Beppe Grillo who co-founded the Five Star Movement a decade ago. Although the party was initially perTuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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 | Stewart Thomson - Graceland Update |
| Gold: The Intense Battle For $1370 |
| For the past fifteen months or so, gold has repeatedly been turned back by immense technical resistance in the $1370 area.
This is the daily gold chart.
There have been three clear attempts to push through the $1370 area since November of 2016. The first two failed miserably, but the current move looks much more positive.
During the latest pullback from $1370, the bears have only managed to push the price modestly lower, to my key buy zone at $1310.
The gold price promptly leaped higher asTuesday, February 27, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 And Now the Schiff Memo  |
| The excruciating quandary President Trump presents to the nation is dragging the sad remnant of the thinking class ever-deeper into a netherworld of desperation, paranoia, and mendacity that may exceed even their own official fantasies about the enemy in the White House.
Everything about the lumbering, blundering occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue drives his Dem/Prog opponents — or #Resistance, if you will — plumb batshit: his previous incarnations as a shady NYC real estate schmeikler, as a TMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Intervention in the Overnight Futures Market Turns the Tide on Stocks' Wild Ride |
| “In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger, and is at best the object of pity... Worldly history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means. The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“These people honour me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain;
they follow ruleWednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Germany's gold repatriation leader elected chairman of Bundestag's budget committee |
| By Guy Chazan
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
An MP for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been elected chairman of the German Bundestag's powerful budget committee, in a significant coup for the populist party.
A fierce Eurosceptic who has criticised the eurozone bailouts and attacked Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, Peter Boehringer once described Germany's Muslim population as "a great danger to our state."
Chairmanship of the budget committee, which has a Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| F. William Engdahl: Breaking Away from the Tyranny of the Dollar ... |
| Over the past 3-4 years we have witnessed a mass awakening taking place on a global scale. This mass awakening actually began with the Occupy Wall Street movement that immediately, almost instantaneously, went global. It was also crushed about as quickly as it arose. People being fragmented without a common voice and common direction is a great way to kill an uprising. It doesn’t matter as the idea became part of the conversation, the everyday conversation. Movements come and go but ideas don’t Friday, January 26, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Government Shutdown Starts Today: Popcorn Rating, Zero |
| Ho hum. Another meaningless government shutdown started today.
A government shutdown starts today. The final tally on a stopgap budget motion at 1:30 AM this morning was 50-49 against. 60 votes were needed to end the debate
Five Republican Senators, Jeff Flake, AZ; Lindsey Graham, SC; Mike Lee, UT; and Rand Paul, KY, joined 44 Democrats voting no. Five Democrats voted in favor of the budget.
Meaningless Political Sideshow
Nothing will come of this even though ABC News proclaims GOP, Dems Show NoSunday, January 21, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Prices Track Rising US Bond Yields Closest Since 1987 as Government Shutdown Looms |
| GOLD PRICES rose against the falling Dollar but held flat or fell versus other major currencies on Friday as the US faced a possible government shutdown over lawmakers' failure to agree a 2018 budget.
Asian and European stock markets shrugged off last night's drop in New York stocks but major government bond prices slipped as the emergency US funding bill – needed to avert a government shutdown in Washington – passed the House
only Friday, January 19, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Who Moved My Xanax |
| The moral panic of “the Resistance” is back in DefCon 1 mode overnight just as the righteousness orgasm of the Golden Globe Awards was wearing off. Mr. Trump’s casual question to a couple of Senators vis-à-vis immigration policy — “Why do we want all these people from ‘shithole countries’ coming here?” — pushed the “racism” button at Resistance Central and CNN staged yet another of the orchestrated anxiety attacks it has perfected over the past year.
The spotlight in this three-ring circus of peFriday, January 12, 2018 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 Donald Trump – Modern Day Walpole  |
| “Hatred of Walpole was almost the only feeling which was common to them. On this one point they concentrated their whole strength. With gross ignorance, or gross dishonesty, they represented the Minister as the main grievance of the state. His dismissal, his punishment, would prove the certain cure for all the evils which the nation suffered. What was to be done after his fall, how misgovernment was to be prevented in the future, were questions to which there were as many answers as there were nSunday, January 7, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong |
| Markets
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that.
Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackeMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| The Year in Trump |
| For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays
There he is, our president, both immovable object and irresistible force, unsmiling with slitty eyes beneath that car-hood of a hair-doo, lumbering from one presidential prerogative to the next through squalls of opprobrium, perplexing leaders from foreign lands, punking congressmen and senators, inducing swoons of un-safeness among the zhes, theys, and thems on campus, provoking the op-ed bards of The Times to mouth-foaming hysterics, tweeting anyFriday, December 29, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
 Part 2, Politics and the Rule of Law |
| In this section we will look at “politics and the rule of law” (or the lack of). If you remember, WikiLeaks dumped all sorts of information from the second half of 2016 on. Much of the information was gleaned from John Podesta’s personal e-mail account …and none of it has ever been claimed to be fake e-mails so we can assume they are true. In fact, the reaction to the information (e-mail) dump was to point fingers at “who stole” them and the “illegality” of obtaining them. Never mind “what” the Thursday, December 28, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Saxo Bank's 10 "Outrageous Predictions" for 2018: Which are Likely |
| Every year, Saxo Bank makes 10 outrageous predictions for the new year. The ideas are meant to get people to think."Outrageous Prediction" Definition
Saxo Bank points out their "Outrageous Predictions for 2018 "are not their actual forecasts. Rather, they are a list of supposed “1% likelihood” events that Saxo really feels should be considered as 10% likely or higher.
In other words, they bring together a list of things that may happen, in an effort to get you to think.
Overview
Our suspicion iSunday, December 24, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
EU Threatens Poland With Article 7, Loss of Voting Rights  |
| The EU is upset with Poland because it doesn't uphold "European Values". In response, the EU threatens Article 7. Background
Article 2 of EU treaty demands countries in the EU Promote and Safeguard European Values Article 7 is a sanctions procedure that the EU can impose on countries the EU deems to have violated Article 2. Article 7 has never been used.
Sanctions include removal of voting rights.
Poland has irked the EU because of judicial reforms the EU does not agree with, and also becauMonday, December 18, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Taking Liberty |
| You can see where this has been going. The wholesale un-personing of “powerful men” in the arts, media, and politics for sex “crimes” ranging from rape to stealing a kiss communicates a hunt up the food-chain that leads to the Golden Golem of Greatness tweeting his wicked id out in his White House lair. The barely suppressed thought behind all this is that Donald Trump raped America… and now he must be found guilty of it… and pay!
The Blue women of the land must surely think that, at least, he rFriday, December 15, 2017 |
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