Do you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest. A new BBC poll finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world – and 29,000 people were asked ...read more

One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural ...read more

Hope you bought your last pack of flavored cigarettes by midnight on Sept. 21…or else you’re out of luck. Thank the newly enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. I’m OK with state-by-state action. In fact, I couldn’t have bought the last pack of cloves in Maryland at 11:55 p.m. ...read more

There’s a lot of Internet chatter these days about the possibility of the U.S. government seizing its citizens’ private gold holdings. What are the chances? Well, it’s always good to bear in mind that there is no telling what the government might do. It’s already doing things that were unthinkable just a ...read more

While we were in Vancouver last week, the dipsticks in Washington, District of Criminals did it again. They increased the Minimum Wage from $6.55 to $7.25 per hour. I don’t mean to preach to the choir, but there goes the remnant of what might otherwise have been the start of a ...read more

Recently we here in the U.S. celebrated the 233rd Anniversary of our Independence Day.  It is, as I hope you remember from your history lessons, the day upon which Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. The legal separation from England, however, actually occurred on July 2, two days earlier. This ...read more

In November of 1997, my partner and co-editor of The Casey Report, Doug Casey, wrote an article titled “Foundations of Crisis,” which leaned heavily on the research of Neil Howe and the late William Strauss. Howe and Strauss have written many books on how generations determine the course of history and ...read more

It is a matter of almost holy writ with us here in the Whiskey Bar that "the poor man's gold" is something we should be buying with every spare non-silver dime we have.  We believe!  We believe! We believe on fundamentals, technicals, and common sense. We even believe all this in the ...read more

The great financial minds in Washington are at it again, starting another war.  As usual, it is "for our own good" and will make twenty-eight per cent. of the adult population miserable while destroying a large industry and reducing tax revenues sharply.  Does legislation get any better than that? This time ...read more

Those of us bellying up to the Whiskey Bar really prefer to discuss economic matters, but politics are impinging ever more heavily on the exciting pastime of making money through analysis, seeing patterns, and forecasting behavior and business trends, whether we believe in fundamentals, technical analysis, or our own private ...read more