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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: China’s Downturn

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf -- After dominating the growth charts for decades, China is slowing down. Friedman says the extraordinarily poor country (over a billion people earning less than $3 a day) is reaching its limits. With unrest rising, Beijing is clamping down and evolving toward dictatorship. Friedman believes China will ultimately break apart into regional...

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: Crisis in Ukraine

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf -- From Russia’s viewpoint, Ukraine is a critical buffer zone that must be either neutral or allied with Russia. The US might allow this but needed something in return. Putin’s defense of Syria’s Assad regime might do it. The US needs Assad to counterbalance ISIS but did not want to defend him. Russia, having now done so, might get a...

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: Latin America Rising

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — The last one isn’t an issue but an opportunity emerged as a result of the turmoil in China. Slowing growth in China has global capital looking for new places to invest, and Latin America seems like a perfect alternative. Friedman says …

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: China’s Downturn

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — After dominating the growth charts for decades, China is slowing down. Friedman says the extraordinarily poor country (over a billion people earning less than $3 a day) is reaching its limits. With unrest rising, Beijing is clamping down and evolving toward …

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: The European Financial Crisis

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — Europe is on the verge of a perfect financial storm. The US, however, is trying hard to stay out of Europe’s financial situation. Greece and Germany are at odds over debt repayments, but both are key US allies and Washington does …

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: The Refugee Crisis

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — Despite the headlines, Friedman says Europe’s refugee crisis really isn’t about refugees. It is about the European Union’s inability to collectively manage major problems. Just as it failed in Greece, the EU apparatus is proving itself incapable of managing refugee flows. …

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: Crisis in Ukraine

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — From Russia’s viewpoint, Ukraine is a critical buffer zone that must be either neutral or allied with Russia. The US might allow this but needed something in return. Putin’s defense of Syria’s Assad regime might do it. The US needs Assad …

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George Friedman’s 2016 Forecast: ISIS

2016-02-01

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Get access to George Friedman’s deepest insights and forecasts at Geopolitical Futures: http://bit.ly/1JTwaYf — Friedman says no one alive today has ever seen a terrorist army quite like ISIS, and no one is quite sure how to handle it. It is quickly becoming the international center of gravity, forcing the US and Europe to change …

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The Global Economy and Markets, What’s Really Going On with Jayant Bhandari

2016-01-28

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The Global Economy and Markets, What’s Really Going On with Jayant Bhandari

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Svenska frihetsrörelsens historia, Per bylund | Radio Mises #076

2016-01-27

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Få känner den moderna svenska frihetsrörelsens historia bättre än Per Bylund. Han var med i den första trevande början, debatterade på BBS:er, satte upp den största anarkistiska websidan, organiserade Walk for Capitalism, gav ut en papperstidskrift och spred dålig stämning i Moderaterna. Hör honom berätta om allt detta samt …

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5GQ: Robert Murphy – The Primal Prescription

2016-01-27

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In this week’s Five Good Questions, we’re interviewing Robert Murphy about his book The Primal Prescription. Robert P. Murphy is Research Assistant Professor with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. In addition to The Primal Prescription, Murphy is the author of several economics books for the layperson, including Choice (Independent Institute 2015), The …

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Nej till medborgarlön | Radio Mises #075

2016-01-27

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Poddstudion reder ut begreppen medborgarlön och negativ inkomstskatt vilka tycks vara på tapeten lite varstans dessa dagar. Vore det månne en förbättring mot dagens bidragsdjungel? Poddpladdrarna går in med öppet sinne men kommer ut med en övertygelse. Därtill sedvanlig dissektion av valda delar av nyhetsflödets bottenskrap samt marxistiska tips …

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George Friedman: Putin Has Two Years to Hold Russia Together

2016-01-20

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Subscribe to Friedman’s free publication “This Week in Geopolitics” (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/subscribe-twig) and get an in-depth view of the forces that will drive events and investors in the next year, decade, or even a century from now. —— Geopolitical expert George Friedman says the crude oil price collapse is “hollowing out” an already stretched Russian government budget. …

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Die Metallwoche im Interview mit Ronald Stöferle und Mark Valek

2016-01-18

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Was erwarten die Fondsmanager der Incrementum AG für 2016? von http://www.metallwoche.de Direkt zum Auftakt des neuen Jahres gibt Rohöl weiter ab, von Experten prognostizierte “Böden” im Bereich von $35-40 wurden mittlerweile locker unterboten, denn das schwarze Gold schaute bereits unter die Marke von $30 und die Prognosen immer tieferer Preisziele häufen sich. Werden sich also …

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The Bull Market in Stocks May Be Done

It’s the rude furry fellow’s turn to shred the illusion.
The great stock bull market is, perhaps, done. To most people, a bull market is good, and its end is bad. After all, a rising market signifies a healthy economy. Investors are making money. Share prices are connected to business productivity, aren’t they?

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Sverige nutid och framtid | Radio Mises #074

2016-01-15

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Sveriges nutid och framtid // Anno Domini 2016 är ännu ungt, men redan så brådmoget händelserikt. Tidningar uppfostrar undersåtarna för maktens räkning. Det svenska våldsmonopolet skyddar och gömmer invandrade brottslingar. Det amerikanska dito retas av milismän. Åsiktskorridoren imploderar i realtid. Edra ödmjuka poddpratare spekulerar i vad mer som kommer …

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Open Letter to the Banks

On Friday, I attended a digital money summit at the Consumer Electronics Show. I am writing to you to warn you about the disruption that is about to occur in banking. There are many startups (and larger companies too) that are gunning for you. Perhaps you have watched what Uber has done to the taxi business? Well, these guys are planning the same thing for the banking business.

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Claudio Grass: The Swiss Vote on Fractional Reserve Banking

2016-01-08

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You may have heard about the Swiss referendum to end fractional reserve lending by Swiss commercial banks. It’s a fascinating development for Austrians and libertarians, and it’s another example of how average Swiss people can use referenda to force both their central legislature and the twenty-six Swiss cantons to consider their proposals, merely by gathering …

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Robert P. Murphy IBC Introduction at Freedom Advisors

2016-01-08

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Murphy, co-creator of the IBC Practitioner Program, explains his background and how he came to know Nelson Nash’s “Infinite Banking Concept” at the Freedom Advisor Summit in St. Louis, MO in November 2015. For more details: http://infinitebanking.org/

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John locke, liberalism | Radio Mises #073

2016-01-08

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Under mitten av 1600-talet pågick stora sociala och religiösa förändringar i Storbritannien som utmynnade inbördeskrig. En av de stora stridsfrågorna var huruvida konungen skulle ha oinskränkt makt. Mot denna bakgrund funderade Locke på frågor som lag, rätt, statens legitimitet, grunden för egendom. Podstudion refererar och kritiserar Lockes idéer samt …

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