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How To Debate Paul Krugman

May 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Paul Krugman is the high priest of Keynesianism and modern interventionism, of economic improvement through inflation and budget deficits. As such he is bête noir among us libertarians and Austrian School economists. What makes him so annoying is his unquestioning, reflexive and almost childlike enthusiasm for state intervention, even in the ...read more

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Why Gold Is Still My Favorite Asset

Apr 24th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
I hate to give personal investment advice. So please do me a favour and do not treat the following as investment advice. I am expressing my personal opinion here. I do so with honesty and conviction, without a personal agenda – I am not trying to sell you anything. Nobody knows ...read more

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Money Laundering

Mar 15th, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
The story from The Daily swept through the Internet with blazing speed. The report: Criminals around the country are stealing an inordinate number of bottles of Tide laundry detergent. This is not because the criminals plan to go into the laundry business. There is not a "grime wave." It seems ...read more

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The Fear of Gold

Feb 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
Gary Gibson, Introduction... Just how committed should you be to holding gold (and silver)? Are you holding too much gold as it is...and not enough U.S. dollars? Or should you be holding anything BUT gold (and silver)? Beyond the cash you need to pay your monthly living expenses, should you hold cash ...read more

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Notes From the Utah Monetary Summit

Sep 30th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Politics
Our executive publisher, Addison Wiggin, received this email from Ron Hera and thought Whiskey Shooters should see it... Addison, I am not given to hyperbole. This is the most important message I have ever sent. I urge you to read it and to share it with others. Earlier this week, I attended the ...read more

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The Trouble with Happiness

May 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Our nation has a happiness fetish. Each year, publishers print thousands of books on the subject. Talk show hosts offer advice from psychologists and therapists. Magazine covers promise “The Short-Cut to Total Joy” or “The Seven Secrets of Wedded Bliss.” You might reasonably wonder why the market is so large. A ...read more

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How to Survive Financial Collapse Right Now

Mar 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
L: Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as ...read more

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1,001 Reasons to Own Gold

Feb 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
Tracking the numerous ongoing bullish factors for gold is quite a chore. There are, quite literally, so many compelling arguments for holding our favorite metal that I used to catalog them each month in our letter. The reason there are so many “reasons” is because gold is unlike any other asset. ...read more

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Free Lunches, Money from Nothing and Limits to Government Theft

Sep 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Consider economics and governments as resembling a restaurant. In order for there to be a restaurant at all some entrepreneur has to put his money and vision on the line and open it. He has a thing called "overhead," which is irreducible on-going expenses whether he has any customers at all ...read more

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Romulus, Remus, Stimulus: A Brief History of Monetary Madness

Jul 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Those whom the gods would destroy are first granted stimulus. When a man wins the lottery, for example, it has a stimulating effect on everyone around him. He usually spends the money quickly - often even before he gets it. But no matter how much he wins, he is usually ...read more

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