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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
 Understanding money and prices |
| This article explains the money side of prices, and why government currencies, unbacked by gold, are doomed to collapse. And why gold, which is the sound money chosen by markets throughout history, will retain or increase its purchasing power measured in the goods it buys over the coming years.Very few people have a full understanding of the relationship between money and goods. This is the relationship that sets prices. Yet, without that understanding, central banks will almost certainly fail iWednesday, June 3, 2020 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
Currency War: 140 Years of Monetary History in Ten Minutes  |
| Like most complex subjects reduced to a ten minute summation, there are plenty of nuances lost here, and one might certainly take issue with some of the conclusions. And the perspective of the discussion is largely centered on the US and Europe.
Nevertheless, I like the succinct overview of certain key events in recent world monetary history that lead up to the situation in which we find ourselves today.
Since most people are abysmally ignorant of where we have been, perhaps that is a good pWednesday, April 8, 2020 |
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 | Wolf Richter |
| Negative Yields Not Required: Even “Low” Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy |
| How to make a mess in the era of low demand.
This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT:
Now the plot thickens: I’ve got a former Secretary of the Treasury backing me up. We’ve already seen, including in my last podcast, how negative interest rates screw up the economy. Negative interest rates are so absurd that just thinking about them gives me a headache.
In the era of negative interest rates, owning financial assets such as government bonds, or savings in the bThursday, August 29, 2019 |
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 | Thorsten Polleit |
| The Best Way to Compete with China Is to Free the Economy |
| As things stand, China holds around 20 percent, or $ 1.2 trillion, of outstanding US credit market debt. This is the result of decades of “symbiotic interaction”, if one follows the hidden message that is embedded in the neologism “Chinamerica”: Americans consume more goods from China than they export to China, and the Chinese are willingly financing the US trade deficit with their “over-savings” by holding dollars and US dollar-denominated debt. In 2017 alone, it amounted to $ 375 billion.For aMonday, March 12, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs
Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary
ISBN number: 978-1-55059-363-1
Copy for inside front cover:
Public relations is "the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn understanding and acceptance."
Canadian Public Relations Society definition
Title: Barbeques, Booms and BlogsSubSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| What the Markets Have in Common with the Film 'Casablanca' |
| As I watched Wednesday's CPI (inflation) number reported by the Commerce Department, I was immediately reminded of that classic scene from legendary WWII flick "Casablanca," where Claude Rains, playing police Captain Renault, shuts down Humphrey Bogart's casino/nightclub with the immortal words, "I shocked—SHOCKED—to find out that gambling is going on in here!" The croupier hands him a wad of bills—"Your winnings, sir"—to which he says, "Oh thank you very much. Now everyone out of here!"
Well,Saturday, February 17, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| US Weighs Venezuela Oil Sanctions: Why Haven't We Starved Enough |
| Thousands of children in Venezuela have starved to death. More are at risk. US sanctions contribute to the conditions.
The hospitals in Venezuela are overcrowded with children suffering from extreme malnutrition and dehydration. Because of hyperinflation, the Venezuelan Bolivar is all but worthless.
The country's only source of revenue is oil, but thanks to corruption and neglect, oil production is down. Making matters worse for everyone in the county, especially innocent children, the US has Tuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Martenson |
| The Value Of Bitcoin |
| So... in the past week, I’ve been asked for advice on Bitcoin by my brother-in-law, my local realtor, and close friends from as far away as Texas.
None of them cared to learn what it actually is. Or how it works. They just wanted to understand why suddenly so many folks they know are trying to buy Bitcoin hand over fist. And, of course, should they buy in now, too?
If you (or people you care about) have similar questions, this report is for you.
A Brave New World
Remember the scene from the moviSaturday, January 6, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Catalonia’s Suspended Autonomy and Gold |
| Spain’s central government said that it would suspend Catalonia’s autonomy on Saturday. What does it imply for the gold market?
As we informed on Tuesday, Madrid set Thursday morning as the ultimate deadline for Catalonia to declare independence or its willingness to remain a part of Spain. But Catalan president Carles Puigdemont ignored the deadline and did not clarify his position. Instead, he wrote a letter to Rajoy, threatening with a formal declaration of independence in the regional parliaFriday, October 20, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Global Outlook – Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD World: News in Charts |
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Alarm bells are ringing for economic fundamentalists such as Fathom Consulting.
Asset prices look increasingly out of step with fundamentals, and in some cases they look downright bubbly. And other geopolitical developments are similarly alarming. One might even describe them as…
Mad:
Equity prices in developed economies, and specifically in the US, are more than one standard deviation higher than their long-run average in relation to nominal GDP.
Mad:
The Nasdaq has again played its part, Sunday, October 8, 2017 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| President's top candidate to lead Fed knows all about gold market rigging |
| President Trump's top candidate for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board appears to be former board member Kevin M. Warsh, who has complained repeatedly about the Fed's manipulation of markets and in 2009 revealed to GATA that the Fed has secret gold swap arrangements with foreign banks.
According to news reports like this one from Bloomberg today --
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/trump-mnuchin-are-sai...
-- Warsh met Thursday with the president and Treasury SecretaMonday, October 2, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Catalonia Police Reject Madrid Orders: Barring Invasion, the Vote Will Take Place |
| Barring a mass invasion by Spanish government troops, it appears the vote in Catalonia will take place.
Given the importance of the story, Western media is amazingly silent. Stories are few and far between.
We have not even see Tweet 1 from President Trump. Let’s take a look at the latest news and Tweets that I can find.
US News reports Catalonia Refuses to Give Police Over to Spain
Catalonia’s top security official says the regional government is refusing to hand over control of a regional poSunday, September 24, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Defiant Catalans Block Spain’s Military Boats From Landing; Spain Seizes “.CAT” Domain |
| Spain’s plan to send boatloads of military police to Catalonia to prevent its independence referendum have backfired with dockers in two ports staging a boycott and a third refusing access.
The Express writes Police boats Blocked by Catalan ports as unrest threatens to Rip Spain Apart.
More than 4,000 members of Spain’s Guardia Civil are being dispatched to the troubled region amid concerns over divided loyalties in the autonomous community’s own police force, the Mossos d’ Esquadra.
Spanish aSaturday, September 23, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Catalonia President: “We Will Vote on Independence Whether Spain Likes it or Not” |
| Thousands have gathered at the gates of Catalonia’s judiciary body to demand the release of a dozen officials arrested in connection with an upcoming vote on independence.
And a defiant Catalonia president wrote a nice op-ed in the Washington Post today: Sorry, Spain. Catalonia is voting on independence whether you like it or not.
Carles Puigdemont is the 130th president of Catalonia.
What follows is Puigdemont’s message in the Washington Post
After three centuries under Spanish rule, on Oct. Saturday, September 23, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Spanish Police Storm Government Buildings Trying To Stop Independence Referendum |
| Spanish national police have stormed ministries and buildings belonging to Catalonia’s regional government to put a stop to the region’s independence referendum. In the early morning hours, armed officers arrived at various Catalan ministries, including the economics department, foreign affairs department, and social affairs department, and made arrests in an effort to stop Catalan independence.
The Guardia Civil, which acts with the authority of Madrid’s interior ministry, is searching for eviThursday, September 21, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Wall Street Journal still isn't ready to question central banking |
| The Wall Street Journal's feeble attempt this week to acknowledge the issue of gold market rigging by the U.S. government at least landed on the newspaper's front page today. You can see its display at the lower left side of the page here:
http://www.gata.org/files/WallStreetJournalFrontPage-08-11-2017.jpg
The report signifies that the situation with gold has become crazy enough that it now can be discussed in polite company. The report also signifies that no one who wants to maintain respectabiMonday, August 14, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever |
| For years, I deemed them “horrible headlines”; and recently, “PiMBEEB” – or Precious Metal bullish, everything-else-bearish. But any way you slice it, the sum total of the global political; economic; social; and most of all, monetary situation – in which, a handful of unelected sociopaths, utilizing a “financial printing press,” garner 99% of the world’s wealth and power – has never been more conducive to the end of the mad, Frankenstein monster-like experiment that spawned it. I.e., the FlintWednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Socialist Dictator Of Venezula Lashes Out At Election Fraud Claims |
| The “democratic socialist” and president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro has lashed out at claims of electoral fraud by the company that administers Venezuela’s voting system. Maduro is accusing the company of succumbing to pressure from “the Gringos and the Brits” to sabotage his controversial and dictatorial new assembly.
“That stupid guy, the president of Smartmatic, pressured to the neck by the gringos and the Brits, said there were 7.5 million [voters],” Mr. Maduro said. “I think there were 1Thursday, August 3, 2017 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Zombie Corporations Litter Europe, Kept Alive by ECB |
| Bank of America says 9% of European firms have subpar interest coverage. Bloomberg covers the story in its report Zombie Companies Littering Europe May Tie the ECB’s Hands for Years.
Watch out for the zombies.
The plethora of companies propped up by the European Central Bank will limit policy makers’ ability to withdraw monetary stimulus that’s been supporting the continent’s bond market since the financial crisis, according to strategists at Bank of America Corp. About 9 percent of Europe’s bSunday, July 30, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Mother Of All Bubbles: “This Unsustainable System Will F... |
| This report was originally published by Adam Taggart at PeakProsperity.com
What To Do With Your Cash?
By Adam Taggart
Have you moved a material percentage of your financial portfolio to cash? Have you become so concerned about the meteoric ramp upwards in asset prices that you find it wiser instead to move to the sidelines, build “dry powder”, and wait to re-enter the markets at saner valuations?
If so, you have my sympathies.
The past 5+ years have been brutal for savers pursuing this strategyMonday, July 24, 2017 |
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