Including the professional class, perhaps 3% of the workforce is truly independent. Being self-employed (i.e. owning your own small business that does not require employees) is an integral part of the American Dream. Many start out dreaming of a corner

Including the professional class, perhaps 3% of the workforce is truly independent. Being self-employed (i.e. owning your own small business that does not require employees) is an integral part of the American Dream. Many start out dreaming of a corner

Concerns are rising in US media over a much-feared shock to the dollar once Iran and P5+1 reach a deal over the Iranian nuclear energy program. The dollar is getting perilously close to losing its status as the world’s reserve

Charlie Munger may be laughing, but the average middle class taxpayer is not. Seven years after the crisis, who were the largest bailout beneficiaries? Read more…

Jean Claude Trichet (of Lux Leaks fame and ex ECB chief) and the late Brian Lenihan’s (Irish Finance Minister) stories are diverging over Irish banking bailout, the biggest act of financial terrorism in Irish history to date. We have had

The world is about to go through a transformation, an awakening, a realisation on a grand scale that our whole financial world is made of lies and propoganda. When this awakening starts to accelerate there will be no way to

Those who preach a “New Order” which is no more than a projection of the tendencies of the last forty years, and who can think of nothing better than to imitate Hitler.  It is, indeed, those who cry loudest for

Podcast: Play in new window | Download With gold & silver taken to the woodshed once again while China was closed, Harvey Organ joined us for an explosive 100th Episode of Metals & Markets, discussing: Metals Smash All About Options Expiration With China Closed On Holiday!

We discuss the winter of our discontent as neoliberal policies and relentless fraud by banks results in never-ending Baltimores. In the second half, Max interviews Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money, about how this debt addicted world could go the

The good news is that with modern technology we can data-mine the 0.001%, or even the 0.01%, better than ever in order to get a sense of who the really bad players are. Naturally, this would be much harder to do with

The good news is that with modern technology we can data-mine the 0.001%, or even the 0.01%, better than ever in order to get a sense of who the really bad players are. Naturally, this would be much harder to do with