Posts Tagged ‘
inflation ’
Jun 22nd, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Featured, Macro Economics
The artificially engineered U.S. recovery is already starting to falter as a fusillade of weakening data continues to shoot the economy full of holes. Recent numbers on GDP, durable goods, housing, regional manufacturing, initial unemployment claims and leading economic indicators all indicate a sharp slowdown in GDP growth. All this ...
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Tags: free market, government spending, inflation, stimulus
Posted in Economics, Featured, Macro Economics |
2 comments
May 20th, 2011 |
By Jeff Berwick |
Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
Gold and silver are strange things. They have been used for centuries as money and only in the last 40 years have they been shoved aside by the financial communists — yet they still exist as a free market monetary asset despite the force of all the government’s guns.
The strange ...
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Tags: inflation, investment bubble, leverage, silver, the U.S. dollar
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Investing |
13 comments
May 9th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Parents probably dream of sending their kid to the University of Chicago. Next to the Ivy League or Stanford, the Chicago school is near the top of the heap. Only 27 percent of applicants are admitted. To be among the roughly 15,000 means prestige and an education to build a ...
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Tags: Austrian school economics, Chicago School economics, inflation
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
7 comments
Mar 9th, 2011 |
By Gary North |
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 ...
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Tags: central bank, End the Fed, Federal Reserve, hyperinflation, inflation
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
5 comments
Mar 2nd, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
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 ...
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Tags: commodity prices, Federal Reserve, inflation, QE2
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
3 comments
Feb 16th, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold
A huge opportunity to hedge against both inflation and deflation is lying out there in the open. There are no transaction costs and right now there’s even a built-in discount. But most people will never realize any of this.
In 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, which made ...
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Tags: copper, debasement, Executive Order 6102, Gold, Gold Reserve Act, inflation, nickel, silver
Posted in Commodities, Currencies, Featured, Gold |
15 comments
Feb 9th, 2011 |
By Jim Kearns |
Category: Economics, Featured, Housing
The world is changing. Currently, as a nation, we have a large and well-trained section of our work force dedicated to residential construction. Unemployment within the construction industry now exceeds 20%. That number takes into account only workers getting unemployment compensation. There are also many self-employed individuals, ineligible for unemployment ...
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Tags: construction, credit expansion, inflation, Real Estate Boom, real wealth, unemployment
Posted in Economics, Featured, Housing |
11 comments
Jan 7th, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
As you read this, the U.S. government owes just a sliver under $14 trillion dollars to various suckers who’ve lent it money. And it wants to borrow more.
Timothy Geithner warned that a failure to raise the debt limit would mean the government would not be able to make the payments ...
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Tags: debt ceiling, default, inflation, National debt
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
9 comments
Oct 29th, 2010 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
If Paul Revere were around, maybe he’d get on his horse and start yelling, “Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!”
I think it is coming. In fact, in many ways, it’s already here, just not yet widely recognized. The deflationists still hold sway in the bond market, where investors happily accept ...
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Tags: Commodities, deflation, inflation, the dollar
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
6 comments
Sep 29th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Economics, Featured, Gold
Since ancient times, gold has been a safe haven for investors worried about market volatility and political uncertainty. Even the rise of paper currencies hasn’t managed to kill the idea of gold in people’s minds. That’s because gold is no one’s liability — currencies come and go, but gold remains ...
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Tags: boom bust cycle, Gold, inflation, spurring economic activity
Posted in Economics, Featured, Gold |
4 comments
