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The State of the Union, Just Another Reality Show

Feb 1st, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, International, Politics
It looks just like a reality show that's not going to be renewed for another season. President Obama's State of the Union ratings are headed in the same direction as American Idol's so far this season – down. Let me make a secret confession right here. For years, the producer of ...read more

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Iran’s Desperate Gamble to Push Oil Up to $200

Jan 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, International, Oil
As this tumultuous and volatile year draws to an end, it's time to turn your thoughts to 2012. What will the new year bring…and what can you do to prepare for it? I've given it a lot of thought, drawing on my decades of market-watching experience. In the end, I came ...read more

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The Euro Crackup

Nov 10th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Gold, International
Watching the euro melt has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. You knew it was coming. You know which cars on the train are next line to be mashed. There is nothing you can do to stop it. You can only watch as it happens, with one ...read more

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The China Bust: Tic Toc Part II

Oct 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Macro Economics
Mainstream economists are vague about -- or choose to outright ignore -- the cause of China's rising domestic prices. A recent article in The Seattle Times stated: "Economists blame China's inflation on the dual pressures of consumer demand that is outstripping food supplies and a bank-lending boom they say Beijing allowed ...read more

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The China Bust: Tic Toc Part I

Oct 10th, 2011 | By | Category: Currencies, Featured, International
China is in the process of allowing its currency to rise. The reason for this is to address the worsening inflation rates in the country. Allowing the yuan to rise will indeed stop, or slow, inflation, but the way this fix works is not the way that is usually assumed. ...read more

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Fun with Customs and Border Guards in the U.S. and Canada

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
"Sir, you can go ahead and button your shirt back up," said the TSA agent. We'd only been trying to help. We were passing through Houston on our way from Acapulco to the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver. We'd opted out of the Rapiscan irradiation machine and so had to be felt ...read more

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Slavery, A First World Tendency

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
Traveling grants perspective. We can't be sure, but we think this must be especially true for Americans... Americans long ago settled for convenience over freedom: Paved roads and more commercial space per capita than any other nation on earth... to go along with various prohibitions on personal behavior, expanded domestic spying ...read more

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There Were No Anarchists In The Vancouver Riots

Jun 17th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
Having lived for more than a decade in Vancouver, Canada, but having defected years ago, I watched with some interest the riots of the other night. For those that missed it, the Vancouver Canucks hockey team lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and soon after much of downtown Vancouver ...read more

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In Death Osama bin Laden Causes Another War

May 4th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
There has never been such an opportunity for the U.S. government to stage a false flag event in order to start yet another war as there is today. The set up is obvious to libertarians and some sane others, but it eludes most all Americans who are busy dancing in ...read more

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How Not to Stop a Terrorist

Jan 26th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
As Glenn Greenwald predicted, terrorists have attacked the next most logical target. A suicide bomber has caused the death of nearly three dozen people in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport by attacking a crowded area not subject to rigorous security measures. Mr. Greenwald expected the next terrorist bombing to take place in the crowded ...read more

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