Posts Tagged ‘ money ’

Hoover and FDR

Apr 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
It seems as though history continues to repeat itself.  During the first 'great depression,' Herbert Hoover was President at the outset.  He instigated the things FDR would later enlarge upon, none of which worked.  Now we are in the beginning of the second 'great depression,' and it's almost exactly the ...read more


Move Your Money Out of America and Soon

Apr 3rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
Things are getting uncomfortable for individuals and corporations looking to deposit their money in tax havens around the world. Just recently, Congress introduced the so-called “Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act,” which is designed to do away with the privacy afforded by doing business or investing outside the U.S. and to ...read more


Basic Economics

Jan 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
There are so many complications, economics wise, and there shouldn't be, because as Ludwig von Mises once said, defining economics, "People Act."  It's just that simple!  Examples are everywhere.  Toyota is closing its plants for 11 days, and how many employees does this affect?  Let's say 2,000, at $200 a ...read more


Battle of the Flations

Dec 25th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
One of the most hotly debated topics among financial talking heads these days is, “Deflation or inflation, what is it going to be?” There is no question that we are currently experiencing asset price deflation and economic slowing. But we, the editors of The Casey Report, see this as a transitional ...read more


Madoff Makes Us Love Gold Even More

Dec 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Liberties
What if you woke up one day and there was a flying saucer sitting in the middle of Central Park? It would change your view of the world, if not the universe, right? At least that’s the idea behind the newly released remake of the classic 1951 film The Day ...read more


Change We’ll Get: Oil, Money and Strife

Dec 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Currencies, Economics, Featured, Oil
In the twilight of the Bush days, in the twilight of the twilight season, a consensus has formed that we are headed into a long, dark passage leading we know not where. Even CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow has been reduced to searching for stray "mustard seeds" of hope on hands and ...read more