Posts Tagged ‘ Federal Reserve ’

Intellectual Inertia and Keynesianism

Jun 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Anarchists face many challenges establishing a state-free society. One of the main challenges we face is the fact that an idea that is widely held will continue to be widely held. This intellectual inertia causes false, pro-state ideologies to be established and propagated long after they have been disproved. An ...read more


Your Gold Coins vs. the Federal Reserve and the Mainstream Media

Apr 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
If you did what Bill Bonner and I have been recommending for a decade, you own gold. Bonner began promoting the purchase of gold in the year 2000. I strongly promoted this for my subscribers after September 11, 2001, when the Federal Reserve began pumping up the monetary base in ...read more


Currency Controls and the War on Money

Apr 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Currencies, Featured, Gold
If you keep your money or savings in US dollars inside of the United States, you are a risk taker of epic proportions. Have you not been paying attention to what is going on? To begin with, the U.S. Government now employs cash-sniffing dogs at most international airports. If you are ...read more


How to End the Fed

Mar 9th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Things are not always as complicated as they seem. With respect to the Federal Reserve System, it is a deliberate mystery. It was deliberately designed in 1910 to deceive the public, who were opposed the idea of a central bank. The conspirators who met on Jekyll Island in November 1910 ...read more


Was QE2 Money Creation with No Negative Consequences?

Mar 2nd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Ben Bernanke says it’s all going according to plan. You see, all it took was buying government bonds with money the Fed conjured into existence. Buy enough government debt and interest rates go down. This prevents prices from falling and sends investors fleeing from low-yielding government bonds and into stocks. According to ...read more


Why You Should Be Thrilled About Australia Right Now

Aug 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
If Henry David Thoreau was right when he wrote, “That government is best which governs least,” then Australia got itself the best government in the world on Saturday. Of course technically speaking, Australia didn’t elect a government. And that government which is not a government cannot govern at all. Thus, “not ...read more


Fed Up with the Fed and the Welfare State

Jul 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, International, Macro Economics
When we have a look at markets today, well...it's depressing. Day after day we all have to put up with the fraud of serious looking men and women in suits making a complete mockery of common sense, reason, and good judgement. As exhibit A in the case ...read more


Why the Stock Market Is a Horrible Wealth Protection Strategy

Mar 5th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Here in the States everyone is keen to see the non-farm payrolls report. It comes out on Friday. Anecdotal evidence (what people say) suggests that the employment situation here is still pretty bad. But government statistics can say pretty much whatever you want them to say. If you’re looking for the ...read more


The Biggest Financial Deceptions of the Decade Have Nothing on the Fed

Jan 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They’re all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade’s most dastardly deception... First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and becoming the largest bankruptcy in ...read more


Time Magazine Blunders with Bernanke

Jan 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
You can usually count on Time magazine to get things backwards, and they missed in a big way with their selection of Ben Bernanke as “Person of the Year” for 2009. Bankster Ben was wrong, wrong, and wrong again in his Federal Reserve policies and prognostications, with the result being ...read more