I clearly remember the moment several years ago when my closest friend from NYC was at my place pleading with me to download and use Spotify. The pitch was compelling and I was open minded about the concept, until I learned…
Beneath the surface PR of progress, the operant dynamic of this era is stagnation. Cheerleaders of progress have a few unalloyed wins in the past 15 years–battles won against diseases, for example–and a general increase in living standards among the…
Every investment needs a good story if it’s going to fly. “The internet is going to change the world”, drove the dotcom bubble. “They’re not building any more land,” drove buy-to-let. “The Chinese want the things we take for granted…
It is wonderful to see the evolution of bitcoin. For those who don’t know what bitcoin is, it is a new distributed, de-centralized digital currency that began in 2009. It’s a totally free market money uncontrollable by governments or central…
The general decline in the quality of tools and consumer goods predates the emergence of China as the workshop of the world, but the decline has gathered momentum with China’s dominance of manufacturing. Young people have little to no experience…
I had the pleasure of being on the Richie Allen show which is very popular on radio in Europe. We got into talking about the potential for a serious fall crisis but then also went into many other tangents including…
Stan Druckenmiller is going big on gold. Druckenmiller is one of the world’s most successful and respected traders. As a hedge fund manager from 1986 to 2010, he generated an incredible average annual return of 30%. Druckenmiller was also George…
I simply cannot stress enough how important Greece is to freedom, liberty and civilization across the globe. Greece is not a one-off, or merely a small nation in big trouble that holds little relevance for the rest of us. Greece is…
It was great to see Max and Stacy in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. Meanwhile, as you know, Fox News hosted a GOP Debate on August 6, 2015. I polled my mostly male cohort working in the financial industry,…
Nick Bullman of Check Risk interviewed GoldCore’s Mark O’Byrne on “Down To Business” at the early hour of 0630 this morning. Topics covered were: – Gold’s fall in price in recent months – All focus on gold price and forgetting…
It is widely assumed that manufacturing (a.k.a. the world’s workshop) is the source of China’s wealth. But how can this be true, given that manufacturing profit margins are razor-thin in China, and have been since the early 2000s? Given that…
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed has been leading the way in documenting how declassified documents from the Pentagon prove that U.S. intelligence officials warned the White House that supporting al-Qaeda just to depose of Syria’s Bashir al-Assad would have serious blowback and end…
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It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations. China currency devaluation signals endgame leaving equity markets free to collapse under the weight of impossible expectations. Photo: Reuters…
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