Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

Filter archive by: Show All Show only Articles Show only Videos

Claudio Grass Interviews Felix Zulauf

2016-06-02

by

2016-06-02

Government Intervention is Making Things Worse. Claudio Grass, the CEO of Global Gold, has recently interviewed legendary Swiss fund manager Felix Zulauf.

Read More »

Arrant Star Trek Socialism

2016-05-31

by

2016-05-31

  Robotic Utopia In spite of the fact that Marx expressed nothing but disdain for his Utopian socialist predecessors such as Henri Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, variants of Utopian socialism evidently live on. The latest iteration of the socialist d...

Read More »

On the Road to Panicville

2016-05-31

by

2016-05-31

  An Alert for the Global Posse of Liquidity Junkies In the summer of 2015 and again in December-February this year, global stock markets were rattled by weakness in the yuan’s exchange rate vs. the US dollar. Yuan weakness is widely held to exacerba...

Read More »

Economy “Improves”, Americans Get Poorer

2016-05-31

by

2016-05-31

  No Surprises BALTIMORE – We were not surprised by the big news last week. We saw it coming. Figures from the Conference Board research group revealed productivity sinking for the first time in three decades. We promised to explain why it was such a...

Read More »

The Stunning Idiocy of Steel Tariffs

2016-05-30

by

2016-05-30

  Victims of the Boom-Bust Cycle The world is drowning in steel – there is huge overcapacity in steel production worldwide. This is a direct result of the massive global credit expansion that has taken place over the past 15 years. Much of this capac...

Read More »

A Thank You to the Jackasses Running the Economy

2016-05-30

by

2016-05-30

  Rolling Back 200 Years of Growth BALTIMORE, Maryland – The press reported mixed financial news on Thursday. House sales, oil, unemployment figures… up, down… the news left investors puzzled.   Two of many symptoms of the much-bewailed “populist bac...

Read More »

Venezuela’s Gold Reserves Plunge To Lowest Ever As Maduro Repays Debt With Gold

2016-05-29

by

2016-05-29

Several months ago, as Venezuela's hyperinflating, imploding economy was spinning in freefall, leading to the dramatic episodes of total social collapse such as those profiled in "Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: "Countless Wounded" After 5,000 ...

Read More »

How Elon Musk Helps Fools to Part Ways with Their Money

2016-05-28

by

2016-05-28

  Tesla Goes Fishing Tesla Motors is up to something remarkable.  But what it is, exactly, is unclear.  According to the Tesla Motors website, the company’s mission is: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transport.   Tesla Model 3: t...

Read More »

The Power Elite: Bumbling Incompetents

2016-05-28

by

2016-05-28

Is there any smarter group of homo sapiens on the planet? Or in all of history? We’re talking about Fed economists, of course. Not only did they avoid another Great Depression by bold absurdity…giving the economy more of the one thing of which it clearly had too much – debt. They also carefully monitored the economy’s progress so as to avoid any backsliding into normalcy.

Read More »

If You Want To Make Money, Go To Scary Places: Jim Grant

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

Why Physical Cash Is Being Eliminated: Grant Williams

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

There Is Political Interference At The Fed: Former Fed Insider Danielle Dimartino Booth

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

China Is No Longer Imploding: Louis Gave

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

3 Big Risks To The Global Economy This Year: Anatole Kaletsky

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

We’re Already In A Bear Market: Charles Gave

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

I’m Very Bullish On China And Here’s Why: Mark Yusko

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

China Is Planning A Gold-Backed Global Reserve Currency: Hedge Fund Manager Mark Yusko

2016-05-27

by

Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

Read More »

Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 27.05.2016 – Heftige Proteste in Frankreich

2016-05-27

by

Weitere Themen des heutigen Tagesausblicks: – Sorgt Rede von Janet Yellen für Bewegung in den Märkten? – G7-Gipfel: Shinzo Abe warnt vor Krise à la Lehman www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

Read More »

Democratic Fun in Tajikistan

2016-05-27

by

2016-05-27

  Capo for Life! The people of Tajikistan love their president Emomali Rahmon deeply. And as we now know, nearly all of them do. The last time a leader of similarly exalted stature enjoyed such unconditional and unshakable support from the entire cit...

Read More »

Sloppy Decisions at Greenlight Capital and Pershing Square

2016-05-26

by

2016-05-26

  Not Just Wrong, but Monumentally Wrong Massive flaws at SUNE (Sun Edison) + VRX (Valeant) were somehow missed by both of these high profile/ well resourced hedge funds.   David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital) and Bill Ackman (Pershing Square) – both f...

Read More »