by James Rickards Note: It’s easy to confuse “currency wars” with “financial wars”… But in the following conversation with Sprott Global Research’s Henry Bonner, Jim Rickards explains why there is one major difference people often overlook… and it’s the one reason we’re more likely to see a currency war than a financial one. Read on… Henry Bonner: Hi Jim. You have recently [...]
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They’re Burning The Furniture Now
by David Kranzler Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. Francisco’s Money Speech – When Atlas Shrugged Last night around 12:30 a.m. EST, $1.5 billion of paper gold was dumped into the Comex Globex computer trading system[...]
Paul Singer Slams The Fake World: “Fake Growth, Fake Money, Fake Jobs, Fake Stability, Fake Inflation Numbers”
Excerpted from Elliott Management's Paul Singer letter to investors, FAKING IT Nobody knows when reality will overtake the rhetoric, lies, phony statistics, wishful thinking, fake prices and tiresome poseurs pretending to be world leaders. The situation is universal, a consequence of incompetent leaders and careless (or ignorant) citizenry. Global problems are continuing to mount, along with[...]
Silver Analyst Who Predicted Silver’s Crash to $15 Three Years Ago Says Massive Rally Coming
November 2, 2014 From SD report... Nearly 3 years ago, with silver trading near $40/oz and gold near all-time nominal highs, gold & silver analyst Marshall Swing shocked the PM community by warning that silver would crash to $15/oz, then rocket past $1,000/oz as fiat collapses! Fast forward to Oct 31st, 2014, and silver has indeed crashed to a $15 handle. Does the ONLY precious metals[...]
Deciphering the War Between Gold, Oil, and the US Dollar
by Frank Holmes The United States is doing better than it has in years. Jobs growth is up, unemployment is down, our manufacturing sector carries the rest of the world on its shoulders like a wounded soldier and the World Economic Forum named the U.S. the third-most competitive nation, our highest ranking since before the recession. As heretical as it sounds, there’s a downside to America’s [...]
BusinessWeek Wants YOU To Become A Keynesian Debt Slave
There are those, increasingly more of them, including such shocking statist luminaries as Alan Greenspan (the person more responsible for today's global depression than anyone else) and the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, who are realizing that the old debt=growth, saving=bad, spending=prosperity and inflation=utopia economic paradigm, the one unleashed by John Maynard Keynes, is the[...]
Alan Greenspan: QE Failed To Help The Economy, The Unwind Will Be Painful, “Buy Gold”
As presented at Zero Hedge... It appears it is time for some Hillary-Clinton-esque backtracking and Liesman-esque translation of just what the former Federal Reserve Chief really meant. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the Fed chief from 1987 to 2006 says the Fed's bond-buying program fell short of its goals, and had a lot more to add. Mr. Greenspan’s comments to the Council on Foreign[...]
Why the Fed Will Launch Another Round of QE – Economist Richard Duncan
In November 2002, Fed Governor Ben Bernanke introduced the concept of Quantitative Easing to the world. In a speech entitled “Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn’t Happen Here”, he explained that the Fed could prevent deflation from taking hold in the United States by creating money and using it to acquire government and agency (i.e. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) bonds. He proclaimed that this[...]
CURRENCY WARS ALERT: Big Nations Snub Beijing Bank Launch After US Lobbying
Jamil Anderlini Financial Times, London Tuesday, October 22, 2014 BEIJING — China will officially launch a new $50 billion Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank on Friday as it steps up its challenge to global financial institutions like the World Bank that it feels are dominated by America and its allies. But only 20 mostly small economies, many of them effectively client states of China, will [...]
Study: Wealth Disparity Greater Than Anytime Since 1929
Wednesday, 22 Oct 2014 07:00 AM By Michael Kling Wealth inequality is greater than anytime since 1929, new research from Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics reveals. "The share of wealth held by the top 0.1 percent of families is now almost as high as in the late 1920s, when 'The Great Gatsby' defined an era that rested on [...]