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Necessity is the Mother of Invention – Retirees Desperate Reach for Yield

2017-06-10

by Eugen von Böhm Bawerk

2017-06-10

Ben Bernanke’s creativity inspired a generation of economists and central bankers. QE, ZIRP and NIRP established a new class of economics that is mathematically sound but practically disastrous. Billions of dollars were transferred from savers to investors to boost the economy, but the wizards of quant forgot that something has to give. In this case, it was the formation of a pension crisis that threatens the golden years of millions of retirees...

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Recession Watch Fall 2017

2017-06-10

by MN Gordon

2017-06-10

One Ear to the Ground, One Eye to the Future Treasury yields are attempting to say something. But what it is exactly is open to interpretation. What’s more, only the most curious care to ponder it. Like Southern California’s obligatory June Gloom, what Treasury yields may appear to be foreshadowing can be somewhat misleading.

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Negative Rates: The New Gold Rush… For Gold Vaults

2017-06-09

by Tyler Durden

2017-06-09

Negative interest rates and the populist uprising that spurred the UK to vote for Brexit and Americans to elect Trump has helped reignite a rush into physical safe haven assets like gold and silver, which however has led to a shortage of safe venues where to store the precious metals (unlike bitcoin, gold actually has a physical dimension).

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Matt Ridley: The EU Won’t Survive in Its Present Form

2017-06-07

by John Mauldin

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Dirk Müller – Katar und das Pulverfass Mittlerer Osten

2017-06-07

by Dirk Muller

Die Gründe für die aktuellen Spannungen im Mittleren Osten sind für den Aussenstehenden nur schwer nachzuvollziehen. Wer unterstützt hier wen und vor allem warum? Auszug aus dem Cashkurs.com-Tagesausblick vom XX.XX.2017. https://www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller Bildrechte: Cashkurs.com & VK_R / Shutterstock.com

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BioTime’s CEO: Human Aging Will Soon Become a Thing of the Past

2017-06-06

by John Mauldin

Why Economics Matters? | Robert P. Murphy

2017-06-05

by Robert P. Murphy

Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy’s presentation at the “New Bridges: Texas” conference held in Dallas, Texas on May 9, 2017. Robert P. Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Research Assistant Professor with the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, President of Consulting by RPM, Senior Economist with the Institute for Energy …

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Grant Williams: Get Out of Equities Before Boomers Are Forced to Sell Them

2017-06-05

by John Mauldin

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statist’s dilemma by per bylund

2017-06-05

by Per Bylund

June 4, 2017: statist’s dilemma by per bylund. In other words, there is no good, philosophically valid arguement for the state. The only available basis for statism is personal preference, that is, the never very persuasive ” I want” Or perhaps laziness of thought, and thus acceptance of tbe status quo. Contact: [email protected] or Skype …

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Raoul Pal: Bitcoin Is Mania, Not a Store of Value

2017-06-02

by John Mauldin

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The Gold Conundrum

2017-06-02

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-06-02

We recently (on Thursday last week to be precise) put together a few gold-related charts based on the “keep it simple” principle. The annual Incrementum “In Gold We Trust” report is going to be published shortly and contains a quite thorough technical analysis section, so we will keep this brief and just discuss a few things that have caught our eye.

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Lacy Hunt: The Fed’s Monetary Policy Is Destabilizing

2017-06-01

by John Mauldin

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The Attack on Workers, Phase II

2017-05-31

by MN Gordon

2017-05-31

It’s been a long row to hoe for most workers during the first 17 years of the new millennium. The soil’s been hard and rocky. The rewards for one’s toils have been bleak.For many, laboriously dragging a push plow’s dull blade across the land has hardly scratched enough of a rut in the ground to plant a pitiful row of string beans. What’s more, any bean sprouts that broke through the stony earth were quickly strangled out by seasonal weeds....

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Inversión con perspectiva austriaca | Ronald Stöferle

2017-05-28

by Ronald Stöferle

Publicado el 22 dic. 2016 Como dijo nuestro gran amigo el Dr. Bob Murphy en un programa anterior, “el conocimiento de la economía es necesario -pero no suficiente- para ser un buen inversionista. ” Un nuevo libro titulado “Escuela austríaca para inversores” (https://mises.org/P11022), co-escrito por nuestro invitado, Ronald Stöferle, abre la brecha para entender la …

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Moving Closer to the Precipice

2017-05-27

by Pater Tenebrarum

2017-05-27

The decline in the growth rate of the broad US money supply measure TMS-2 that started last November continues, but the momentum of the decline has slowed last month (TMS = “true money supply”). The data were recently updated to the end of April, as of which the year-on-year growth rate of TMS-2 is clocking in at 6.05%, a slight decrease from the 6.12% growth rate recorded at the end of March.

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