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“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” - Sun Tzu Within the past 5 years, the […]

Given that homeownership is now beyond the reach of so many, what are Americans taking out loans to purchase these days? Cars, it turns out. Not new cars either. Used […]

Why does it matter if the gold price is rigged? It behoves those of us who argue the economics of sound money to try to make the answer as intelligible as […]

Regular readers will be intimately familiar with my feelings on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).   Long before it became obvious to millions of people, I wrote about how the DHS was […]

Gold persistently rallied from 2001 to August 2011. Since then it has fallen rather hard, down nearly 40% at one point, but it currently looks ready to rally for the […]

People have such short memories.  Even though we are repeating so many of the same patterns that we witnessed in 2000-2001 and 2007-2008, most people do not think that another […]

When Lee Goldsmith drives by one of the many fake cellphone towers being discovered throughout the U.S., his $3,500 CryptoPhone 500 will immediately display the warning message in the thumbnail image to […]

The Paradigm Shift has reached a higher gear.  The danger and risk levels have gone to critical levels.  The risk of economic destruction has gone into recognizable critical levels. The […]

Gold and silver had a bad week, with gold falling $25 to a low of $1262 by the Comex close Thursday, and silver by $0.50.  Friday morning UK-time prices opened a […]

Has there ever been a nation more hooked on drugs than the United States?  And I am not just talking about illegal drugs – the truth is that the number […]

The Federal Reserve’s third quantitative-easing campaign is on track to wind down in late October.  At that point the Fed will likely stop printing new money to buy bonds, a […]

The Silver Institute's August edition of Silver News is now available. This issue explains the fundamentals behind the surging growth in demand for industrial silver, which is expected to exceed global GDP growth through 2016. The constantly evolving industry for silver technology is largely to thank for this increasing demand. August's Silver News highlights some of the fascinating new applications of silver, including:
You'll also find an explanation of how silver is used as an essential chemical catalyst in the production of ethylene oxide (EO), which in turn is needed to create ethylene glycol. Ethylene glycol is one of the most important substances in our modern world.
Ethylene glycol, in turn, is used to produce many products including polyester fibers for clothes and carpets, plastics, solvents and other chemicals, and even antifreeze formulations. By itself, EO is used to sterilize many health-care products and medical instruments, including delicate electronic or op...

Ebola continues to spread an an exponential rate.  According to the World Health Organization, 40 percent of all Ebola cases have happened in just the last three weeks.  At this […]

Obviously gold/silver and the miners were hit hard Thursday.   I can’t emphasize enough that the sell-off in the sector was 100% a product of an extreme degree of market […]

The IRS. There are few agencies more hated, corrupt, and degraded in the entire nation, and that’s saying a lot. Unless you have been living under a rock for the […]

Scholars have observed a pattern of economic crashes occurring approximately every seven years dating back to prior to the Great Depression- the Great Depression, the Arab Oil Embargo, the S&L crisis, Black Monday, […]

In this excellent interview with Finance & Liberty's Elijah Johnson, GATA Chairman Bill Murphy discusses the latest gold and silver smack down, which Bill states proves that gold and silver […]

Who in good conscience wants to go their entire working lives supporting a government that wastes tax dollars on bombs, drones, spying on citizens, and bankrupting unborn generations? It’s no […]

It is not enough that the US refuses to return Germany’s gold, [long gone, anyway, and Germany stopped asking].  It is not enough that the US, [thanks to the Snowden revelations], spies […]

The U.S. Retirement Market has nearly doubled from $11.6 trillion in 2000, to a stunning $23 trillion level today… a growth of $11.4 trillion. Now, let’s compare that to the total […]