A Salvo in the Battle for the Gold Standard
byI wrote what I thought was a fairly simple article for Forbes on Tuesday. I noticed that some people really got it, and they…
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The Occult Wars Of Kim Jong-un, Smaug, Paul Krugman And Gold
byPyongyang, evidence shows, effected a spectacular data breach of Sony Pictures to express its wrath over Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogan’s The Interview, a…
The Biggest Monetary Change in 80 Years
byThe Swiss people put an initiative on their ballot to reverse decades of regression. They’re trying to get gold back into the monetary system,…
The Real Fed Tug Of War: the Yellen Doctrine vs. the Volcker Doctrine
byThe financial markets are on a hair trigger as to when, and how quickly, the Fed will tighten and raise interest rates. Billions of…
A Gold Man in Monetarist Territory
byOn November 3, the Manhattan Institute hosted the fall meeting of the Shadow Open Market Committee (SOMC). This is a 40-year old group, with…
The Case For Monetary Freedom And Free Banking
byThere has been no greater threat to life, liberty, and property throughout the ages than government. Even the most violent and brutal private individuals…
The Truth Behind The Swiss Gold Referendum
byA recent column in US News & World Report, The Swiss Gold Rush by Pat Garofalo, its assistant managing editor for opinion, is subtitled…
We seem to have miscalculated
by“What will futurity make of the Ph.D. standard ? Likely, it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the…
How the ‘Reserve’ Dollar Harms America
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Lewis E. Lehrman And John D. Mueller, first appeared in the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-the-reserve-dollar-harms-america-1416527644. It was kindly brought to…
Russia’s monetary solution
byThe hypothesis that follows, if carried through, is certain to have a significant effect on gold and the relationship between gold and all government-issued…