Gold is in a bull market for a number of reasons including political risk and there is “every reason for it to continue” according to Dominic Frisby writing in the UK’s best selling financial publication Money Week. Stockcharts.com via Money…
The human mind can be its own worst enemy. Humans often place belief over reason, even when the evidence clearly shows the belief is faulty and deleterious to our welfare. The ZIRP/NIRP policies currently being implemented by the world’s central…
We talk first to Jeff Berwick of the Dollar Vigilante about Americans renouncing their citizenship as a solution to bank embargoes and double taxation. In the second half, we chat to Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, founder of BitNation – the world’s…
PM Fund Manager Dave Kranzler Joins the Show This Week, Discussing: Manipulators Losing Control? Silver’s Up 23% Since June! Record Amount of Paper is Being Thrown at Gold and Silver to Keep Them From Going Parabolic! Why the Fund Manager Would “Not…
I just finished watching Trump’s entire acceptance speech and I have all sorts of thoughts to share. Let’s start with the overall picture. First, the speech confirmed all the reasons I cannot support Trump, but also further solidified why I think…
Rising macroeconomic risks, low real interest rates, and a decline in the dollar versus emerging market currencies are major price catalysts for gold. Since hitting its high of over $1,900 an ounce in 2011 after a 12 year bull run,…
Let’s say you wanted to engineer a stock market rally that triggered every technical “buy” signal and wiped out those who are short the market–what would you do? First, you’d engineer a new all-time high to signal “all clear for…
Introduction The financial services industry is a highly regulated, highly technical, and highly traditional industry where ancient companies reign supreme and new entrants do not have good odds of survival. The Internet and the rise of the digital age have…
We talk first to former banker, now author, Nomi Prins, about a solution to the revolving door between Wall Street and DC. We discuss whether or not Hillary Clinton’s highly paid speeches to Goldman Sachs matter and whether or not…
Just as the dust begins to settle on Brexit, Italy’s banking system looms as the next threat to global financial markets. Previous attempts to resolve Italy’s banking sector woes have proven to be less than effective. Non Performing Loans on the…
In the July 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: ‘Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data? I’m happy to share.‘ We talk to the two journalists who got the Panama Papers scoop, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier who’ve written a…
Whenever an irrational and inhumane law remains on the books far longer than any thinking person would consider appropriate, there’s usually one reason behind it: money. Unsurprisingly, the continued federal prohibition on marijuana and its absurd classification as a Schedule 1 drug…
A Bitcoin IRA or Digital Currency IRA is an Individual Retirement Account in which Bitcoin or other approved digital currencies are held in custody for the benefit of the IRA account owner. It functions the same as a regular IRA, only instead of holding paper…
I often write about the Tyranny of Price, the rarely examined assumption that lower prices are all that matters. Thanks to the Tyranny of Price, the quality of many goods has plummeted.Obsolescence is either planned or the result of inferior…
Following on from the Brexit vote last month the IMF have decided to re-evaluate their forecast for global growth. Bloomberg reports that they have revised their original 3.2% forecast down to 3.1% for 2016 and from 3.5% to 3.4% for 2017.…