by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “The credit creation theory was something I intuitively grasped before from other alt-media sites, John nailed it down.” – Comment from someone who watched the podcast below The “money supply” number as provided by official Federal Reserve …
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Americans have become numb to financial intelligence. This is no more evident than a recent Sallie Mae survey, which indicated that college graduates can’t even answer simple questions about financial concepts, such as interest. The …
Japan is the model for success. They’ve been printing money and hey look, everything is fine… So why are they quickly becoming the only buyer? Japan is the model for success under QE, I’ve heard countless times. It’s odd though …
by Jesse Colombo At the end of 2018, the global financial markets were reeling, the S&P 500 briefly fell into official bear market territory, and fear gauges were spiking. Sure enough, the Fed started to panic and backpedal on its previously hawkish …
by Patrick Barron of Mises Wire A few years ago, shortly after the 2008 subprime lending disaster, the Fed sent a public relations team around the country to conduct supposedly “educational sessions” about how the Fed works and the wonderful things …
via @OccupyWisdom : Shiller US Home Price Index in dollars – all time high Shiller US Home Price Index in Gold – just approaching 1890 levels No inflation in 130 years priced in gold
by Disobedient Media On June 12, 2018 The Washington Post ran an overlooked story where they disclosed that National Security Advisor John Bolton had accepted money from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Deutsche Bank and HSBC to return for his participation in speeches and …
By Nick Cunningham Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector. The most recent factor is the sudden eruption of the long simmering feud …
by Money Metals Six Other States Now Weighing Their Own Bills to End Taxes on Gold & Silver Before the ink could even dry on West Virginia Governor Jim Justice’s signature on a repeal of sales taxation on gold, silver, platinum, and …
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-bullish-on-banks-jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-095717582.html Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) is bullish on the banks. “They’re a business I understand, and I like the price at which they’re selling relative to their future prospects,” Buffett said in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo Finance’s …
by Mark Nestmann In 1914 Maximilian Bern thought he had it made. After a long career as a successful writer and editor, Maximilian was ready to retire. And he believed he had more than enough savings to support himself. Unfortunately, Maximilian …
BY JOHN RUBINO When you see that Italy’s debt is rising, the logical question is, who the hell is dumping good money after bad into such an obviously failed state? The answer is that by lending money to Italy (or Greece, Portugal, …
by Shaun Richards Some days events almost write an update for me and so without further ado let me hand you over to a letter from the President of the ECB Mario Draghi to the Spanish MEP Ms Paloma López …
via DW: What we know so far Swedbank confirmed on Wednesday that its headquarters near Stockholm have been raided by Swedish authorities. The bank is under investigation by the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) for giving misleading information …
by ChasingMyMoney Background: Several weeks ago I accidentally purchased a $100 Starbucks E-gift card through the Chase.com website on my computer browser. I wanted to send my sibling a belated gift of direct money. Within 2-5 minutes of sending the money …
An online campaign has been launched against a US drug maker accused of inflating prices of an anti-HIV drug by thousands of dollars. And it turns out the company doesn’t even own the patent for the treatment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxEHT0rR4E
Investment options abound around us, but it takes discerning minds to locate the right opportunities. College students are in a better position to hitch a ride to riches, even before they conclude studies. Time, the quest to succeed and the …
Via The Babylon Bee CHICAGO, IL—All charges against Jussie Smollett for faking a hate crime against himself have been dropped after the Empire actor and well-respected employer of Nigerians used the “I have a lot of money” defense in court. Smollett’s legal …
When booking a getaway, be it for business or pleasure, you so often hear that you have to book as far in advance as possible in order to find yourself the best deal. But what happens if time is against …
by visualcapitalist How do you spend your hard-earned money? Whether you are extremely frugal, or you’re known to indulge in the finer things in life, how you allocate your spending is partially a function of how much cash you have coming …
via Matt Taibbi When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government’s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD’s $700 billion annual budget go? A retired Air Force auditor — we’ll call him Andy — tells …
BY JOHN RUBINO In his latest newsletter commodities analyst Jay Taylor notes that a very important date is approaching: In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase …
Of the seven congressmen listed below, three were chosen thru the audition process and they are, as far as I can tell, puppets of The Justice Democrats, Saikat Chakrabarti and Cenk Uygur.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a bartender and was selected …
by John Ward May’s vote tomorrow will fail, and Parliament will move to ensure No Deal is taken off the table and thrown in the bin in short order. Dominic Raab talks a good game about that making for an …
via Bloomberg: European Union governments unanimously rejected a list of foreign jurisdictions posing higher risks of money laundering, criticizing officials in Brussels for drawing up the document in a flawed manner. The list was presented last month by the European Commission, …
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by howmuch Amazon backed out of its plans to build an office in New York, citing the pushback and criticism from politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Even if some people are still hoping Amazon will reconsider, the entire idea behind bringing Amazon to Queens, NY was …
by kit8642 Shoshana Zuboff talks about her new book on Survallence Capitol. Pretty interesting stuff, and essentially what Googled said they would do in 2016 with an internal video that was leaked last year. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 3/1/19 Jason talks about how much CNBC (CNBS) is spinning financial news and information along with economic data to make almost any piece of news or information, even if it’s really bearish, appear …
by Simon Black By the year 1380, the Hundred Years’ War between England and France had already been raging for decades. And the war wasn’t going very well for England. France had managed to recapture most of the territories they had …