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Trump and Clinton: Neither is Fit to Tell the Rest of Us What to Do

2016-05-06

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2016-05-06

  Misinformation and Delusions PARIS – Too bad about Ted Cruz. His tax plan was pretty good. A flat tax of 10% on anything over $36,000. And a 16% “business transfer tax” to replace the corporate income tax and all payroll taxes.   Ted Cruz bows out…...

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Jayant Bhandari-PIGS Culture Not Debt is the Problem [Capitalism & Morality Seminar 2015]

2016-05-06

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Full Capitalism & Morality Conference 2015 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNKmkCnPb4&list=PLVakOKBvbSujZ6Cu_jHmZgz5qqIagEs9c Jayant is a contributing editor of the Liberty magazine and has written for the Mises Institute, the Mises Institute (Canada), Casey Research, Le Québécois Libre, Sprott’s Thoughts, LewRockwell.com, etc. This speech was delivered at The Capitalism & Morality Conference in Vancouver, Canada, August...

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Q&A with Jared Dillian: The Inflation Trade and Emerging Markets

2016-05-06

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Subscribe to Jared Dillian’s free weekly newsletter, The 10th Man, so you won’t fall prey to the herd mentality that so often causes mainstream investors to make the wrong decision. Sign up here: http://www.mauldineconomics.com/subscribe

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Corporate Tax Receipts Reflect Economic Slowdown

2016-05-06

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2016-05-06

We compare Tax Receipts against the Stock Market. It becomes obvious that tax receipts have slowed down recently. And so should the performance of the stock market.

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Incrementum Advisory Board Meeting, Q2 2016

2016-05-06

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2016-05-06

  A New Bull Market in Gold? On April 10, the Incrementum Fund’s advisory board held its quarterly meeting. Two of the regulars (Zac Bharucha and Rahim Taghizadegan) were unable to attend this time, but we were joined by special guest Brent Johnson, ...

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A Trump Landslide in November?

2016-05-05

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2016-05-05

  Objective Reality After spending three weeks with objective truth at the ranch, we are now forced to return to the world of myths, delusions, and claptrap. Yes, we are in Buenos Aires looking at a TV! And there they are… talking about the world of ...

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May Day Mayhem – Discontent on the Continent

2016-05-04

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2016-05-04

  Europe’s Political Class Under Fire All over Europe not only religious and national holidays are observed, but also a socialist holiday, which we always thought was a bit strange – and in a way quite telling (as far as we know, there is no holiday ...

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Financial Revolution: ECB Blames You For Negative Interest Rates

2016-05-03

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2016-05-03

Simon Black of the Sovereign Man explain how revolutions start. Using negative rates, the ECB blames the own people that it is saving too much. But revolutions can also start in the financial system and lead to its collapse.

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Buffett: I Might Consider Taking Money Out of Banks If They Charge for Deposits

2016-05-03

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2016-05-03

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With persistently low interest rates around the globe, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday he’d consider taking money out of banks, especially if negative interest rates result in customers being charged to park their money in accounts.

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Switzerland: You know negative interest rates are bad when…

Switzerland is famous for being punctual. The trains. The buses. The meticulously crafted, hand polished luxury watches. The Swiss are so culturally punctual that they even tend to pay their taxes well in advance of the filing deadline. But with negative rates, the cantons' tax office do no longer like this.

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Carly Fiorina: Running Mate Turns Into Fall Girl

2016-05-03

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2016-05-03

Ted Cruz picked Carly Fiorina as “vice-presidential running mate”. Shareholders lost 50% when Fiorina was leading HP. Will Fiorina help Cruz losing?

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 2.5.2016 – Gold und Goldminen auf dem Weg nach oben!

2016-05-02

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www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

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Dirk Müller – TTIP-Rohvertrag: Viel schlimmer als erwartet!

2016-05-02

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Auszug aus dem Cashkurs.com-Tagesausblick vom 02.05.2016. www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller Bildrechte: Cashkurs.com & GrAl / Shutterstock.com

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How Unsound Money Fuels Unsound Government Spending

Stefan Gleason shows the major slides that may predict a collapse of the dollar. The Trade Deficit after the abandonment of gold, the explosion of entitlements like social security, Medicare, Obamacare, subsidies and the explosion of the federal deficit to 1 trillion in 2022. The reason: Unsound money.

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Gold And Negative Interest Rates

2016-04-30

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2016-04-30

Submitted by Dan Popescu via Acting-Man.com, The Inflation Illusion We hear more and more talk about the possibility of imposing negative interest rates in the US. In a recent article former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke asks what tools the Fed h...

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The ‘Strange’ Death of Mr. Abadi

2016-04-30

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2016-04-30

As expected, PM Abadi was always going to come off worse in his last ditch attempt to try and regain some kind of political initiative by appointing a new look ‘technocratic’ government in Baghdad. But the ailing Prime Minister has managed to back hi...

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With Fiat Money, Everything Is Relative

2016-04-30

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2016-04-30

  What Determines a Currency’s Value? At the end of March the price of the euro in terms of US dollars closed at 1.1378. This was an increase of 4.7 percent from February when it increased by 0.3 percent. The yearly growth rate of the price of the eu...

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Negative Rates: Jim Bianco Warns “The Risk Of An ‘Accident’ Is Very High”

2016-04-29

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2016-04-29

In an interesting interview with Finanz und Wirtschaft, Bianco Research president Jim Bianco discusses a variety of topics such as negative interest rates turning the entire credit process upside down, bank balance sheets being even more complex and ...

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Gold and Negative Interest Rates

2016-04-28

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2016-04-28

  The Inflation Illusion We hear more and more talk about the possibility of imposing negative interest rates in the US. In a recent article former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke asks what tools the Fed has left to support the economy and inter alia discu...

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Ryan McMaken on An Economy of One National

2016-04-28

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Ryan McMaken, editor of Mises Daily and The Austrian, joins Gary Rathbun on An Economy of One National. You can hear An Economy of One (National) on Radio America Network Sundays at 6 p.m. ET here: http://www.radioamerica.com/pop-up-listen-live/ Read more by Ryan at Mises.org here: https://mises.org/profile/ryan-mcmaken

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