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Is the Federal Reserve Losing Control of the Gold Price?

Aug 8, 2019

With central banks moving their reserves from dollars to gold, the demand for US government debt is not keeping up with supply.

Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Spending

Jul 30, 2019

The Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy perversely incentivizes consumer spending when what the economy needs for real growth is consumer saving.

Are You Prepared for a Recession?

Jul 22, 2019

Contrary to what you might read in the New York Times and other establishment media, the US economy is not doing fine. Another Fed-caused bust is coming.

Huge Gap between US Markets and International Trade

Jul 10, 2019

The current gap between US market highs and international economic realities is precipitating a global recession by 2020, given the current trends.

The State of the Economy

Jun 7, 2019

The Federal Reserve and plunge protection team will rig the markets for the mega-rich until the US dollar loses its role as world reserve currency.

Trump’s Futile Quest for a Renminbi Plaza Accord

May 24, 2019

China’s monetary policy is not as US media reports claim, and the negative consequences of Trump’s tariffs are about to hit American consumers.

Toward Japan’s Economic End-Game

May 3, 2019

Japan’s economy is coping with half a decade of Abenomics, monetary injections, huge debt, and a proposed sales tax that could make things a lot worse.

Is Neoliberalism Killing Russia?

Mar 8, 2019

Russians continue to enable their own exploitation by foreigners, as neoliberal economists have told them that there is no alternative.

Darker Clouds over Europe

Feb 4, 2019

Not only is Europe’s expansionary cycle fading, but the region is about to face challenges that it has to tackle amid growing political fragmentation.

Gaza Rallies for Caracas: On the West’s Dangerous Game in Venezuela

Feb 4, 2019

Venezuela is struggling to defeat a coup attempt that is supported by the United States, Israel and many Western governments.

A Golden (Long-Term) Opportunity

Jan 7, 2019

With most physical demand for gold coming from emerging economies that are also fueling global growth prospects, gold is on the right side of the future.

Genocide of the Greek Nation

Aug 21, 2018

The declaration that the Greek crisis is over just means that there’s nothing left to extract from the Greek people for the interest of the foreign banks.

Who Does America Belong to? Not to Americans.

Aug 2, 2018

Thomas Jefferson’s prediction that central banking would “deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless” is coming true.

Democracy Is Fighting to Survive the Rise of Western Authoritarianism

Jun 1, 2018

Considering the seeds of crisis that the self-serving policies of the Western elites have sowed, the responses to the crises will be calls for and acceptance of authoritarian rule. It is entirely possible that the democratic era is approaching its end.

Escape from Protection: The Catastrophe of Conservation in Panama

Apr 18, 2018

Typified by The Nature Conservancy and The World Wildlife Fund, Global Conservation as such is really an arm of colonialist foreign policy going back at least a century, and its fundamental aims have not changed.