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For close to 300 years, inflation in the US remained very subdued.  Small spurts occurred around major wars (Revolutionary, Civil, WW1, etc), but after each, inflation quickly trended back down […]

The financial media regularly plays down reports of consumer price inflation that are much higher than the official numbers. Even worse, analysts generally argue that more inflation is needed for the health of the US economy. Pippa Malmgren, author of a new book, Signals: The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics, has been studying price inflation that is cleverly hidden – she calls it "shrinkflation."
Shrinkflation occurs when consumer products cost the same, but contain less. For instance, Malmgren points to Cadbury chocolate bars that were reduced in size in 2011, while the price remained the same. Nestle's Shredded Wheat and Carlsberg beer are two other major companies that are practicing shrinkflation. Haagen-Dazs shrunk its "pint" of ice cream by 20% in 2011. Here's an entire list of shrinkflation products published by CNN Money three years ago. Peter Schiff has talked about this very phenomenon in his videos and podcasts for years.
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In gold, we see MASSIVE new short positions have been taken by the large speculators and this plays right into the hands of the commercials for a soon to come […]

Trillions of dollars of debt, a bond bubble on the verge of bursting and economic distortions that make it difficult for investors to know what is going on behind the […]

Despite what seems to be an inexorably rising stock market, the homebuilder stocks continue their negative divergence from the direction of the general market.   In fact, the homebuilder stocks […]

Having singularly failed to reform or restructure their dilapidated economies, many governments throughout the West have left it to their central banks to keep a now exhausted credit bubble to […]

We were early in reporting on the trend of financial firms entering the U.S. residential real estate market with “all-cash” bids for tens of thousands of homes with the intention of […]

The CEO of RBC Wealth Management – the biggest financial institution in Canada recently stated on Bloomberg that “Canada is what Switzerland was 20 years ago, and the banks in Canada […]

What is happening today in the geopolitical arena and with the precious metals is telling us that the U.S. about to get systemically FLATTENED by a steamroller event coming at […]

If you look at a four year chart of the continuous gold futures, it shows a definitive bottom a year ago in June. Since the beginning of this year, that up-trend has actually […]

Once You’re In Our Dollar System, You Can’t “Just Leave” It  The world literally has a gun to its head, as the petro-dollar is a currency based upon forcing others to take […]

Kirk Sorenson returns this week to relay what has happened in the thorium space. The East, most notably China, is now fully-mobilized around getting its first reactor operational by as […]

Most of heard the news last week that the UK had raised its terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe.” Considering the competence and trustworthiness of the nation’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, there must be some […]

During the first half of 2014, Chinese gold demand was not spectacular, but it was decent,and it appears to be rising again. Technically, gold appears to set to rally from […]

It looks like after a long 3-yr drought, we may be in the early stages of a MONSTER MOVE in the junior mining shares. It’s time to start picking your favorite […]

“Everyone in the country was in shock.   People’s net worth had devalued more than 53% overnight.” Looking back, it was so obvious.  But most people ignored the warning signs […]

With the summer unofficially over and the bankers and traders returning to their desks Tuesday morning, the paper futures gold and silver markets were greeted with a familiar scene: a […]

Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to make a few things clear. First, the brutal beheading of anyone is barbaric, unacceptable and tragic beyond description. […]

We’ve all heard about the private prison industry by now.   An idea so insane and so rampant with perverse incentives that no civilized society would ever allow such a concept […]