The German government is warning its people to ‘stockpile’ food, water and cash in case of ‘war’. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government is set to tell citizens to stockpile food, water, medicine,…
The best thing about Obama (from an oligarch’s perspective), is his uncanny ability to push through upward redistributive wealth policies while still maintaining a phony aura of caring about the little guy amongst so many of his apparently lobotomized supporters. Countless…
The direction of the crude oil market has been among the top factors that are deciding whether the markets will gain or lose. Here’s proof. Earlier in the year, the US market was down as fears grew about oil companies…
In noting that our society is sick, our economy exploitive and our politics corrupt, I’m not saying anything you didn’t already know. Everyone who isn’t being paid to deny the obvious in public (while fuming helplessly about the phony cheerleading…
Deposits at Bank of Ireland are soon to face charges in the form of negative interest rates after it emerged on Friday that the bank is set to become the first Irish bank to charge customers for placing their cash on deposit…
Economics 101 tells us that prices for all major asset classes are ‘set at the margin’. So things can get ugly fast when the marginal buyer goes on strike. And it’s increasingly looking like the marginal buyers are beginning to…
We ask why politicians don’t take a cue from Mozart and start composing policy for everybody rather than just for the elite. In the second half they continue their conversation with fracking advocate, Nick Grealy of London Local Energy about…
In the August 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: The Big Four accountancy firms: Are they in fact more like the Big One? And should they be broken up? Also: – the Duke of Westminster’s 9 billion tax free inheritance and…
So why am I highlighting this story? First, I think the analysis is correct, and I agree with the presumption that Donald Trump could very well launch a major media organization if he loses the election. There’s no way a man…
The US Mint has reportedly HALTED PRODUCTION of 2016 American Silver Eagle Coins. Over the past several weeks we have documented the plunge in ASE sales at the US Mint from approximately 1 million coins a week throughout the first 6 months of 2016…
The Federal Reserve claims its monetary interventions saved America from economic ruin in 2009, and have bolstered growth ever since. Don’t hurt yourself patting your own backs, Fed governors past and present: it’s bad enough that the Fed can’t fix…
The Rothschilds are buying gold through their investment house RIT Capital Partners and Lord Jacob Rothchild is warning about the results of “the greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world”. British investment banker Lord Jacob Rothschild…
We ask why only ⅓ of the British population supports fracking despite big cash payments allegedly on offer from the government. In the second half, we talk to fracking advocate, Nick Grealy of London Local Energy about his belief that…
It’s difficult to pick the most destructive of America’s many senseless, futile and tragically needless wars, but the “War on Drugs” is near the top of the list.Prohibition of mind-altering substances has not just failed–it has failed spectacularly, and generated…
There are many reasons to believe that “the mother of all bull markets has only just begun” for gold. So believes Peter Grandich, the market analyst dubbed the “Wall Street Whiz Kid” whose track record speaks for itself. He called the Wall…