Debt limit nonsense
bySome things are stated as fact which are nothing of the kind. Right up until the Congressional deal raising the debt ceiling news anchors…
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That US debt ceiling and the Fed
byWe are now into a second week of a partial Federal Government shut-down, which is causing considerable concern, centred on the Government’s ability to…
No tapering, no surprise
byIt was not too surprising that there is going to be no tapering for some very good reasons. The commencement of tapering would have…
The Corruption of Capitalism in America
byFollowing on from John Butler’s review, here’s Detlev’s take on “The Great Deformation” … David Stockman’s new book is a brilliant, penetrating analysis of the present state…
A review of The Great Deformation
byDavid Stockman’s The Great Deformation is a tour de force of historical revisionism that demolishes the conventional economic and political wisdom prevailing both prior…
The rise of the money cranks
byIt’s official: global economic policy is now firmly in the hands of money cranks. The lesson from the events of 2007-2008 should have been…
Peter Schiff on America’s coming bankruptcy
byEpisode 76: GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan talks to Peter Schiff about the upcoming “fiscal cliff” in the United States, and how precious metals investors should manage…
America: A threat to liberty?
by“Politics, as hopeful men practice it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance,”…
A tear for America
byThose born in Europe to parents who survived the horrors of the last world war have no trouble recalling the genuine admiration, and perhaps…
Could the US Republican Party take gold seriously?
byVia the Financial Times and behind their paywall, we learn: The gold standard has returned to mainstream US politics for the first time in 30…