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Q&A with George Friedman: Venezuela, North Korea, the Middle East, Kazakhstan

2016-04-19

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Send your questions for George Friedman to Mauldin Economics on Twitter (@mauldinecon) with the hashtag #TWIG. Every week, we’ll pick the most interesting questions and have George Friedman answer them in this Q&A video series. Stay tuned!

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US Economy – Ongoing Distortions

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  Business under Pressure A recent post by Mish points to the fact that many of the business-related data that have been released in recent months continue to point to growing weakness in many parts of the business sector. We show a few charts illust...

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[4/18/16] – 37. Resistance to the European Union with Claudio Grass

2016-04-18

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The show notes page for this episode can be found at: http://www.wakeupcallpodcast.com/eu-resistance Claudio Grass, Managing Director of Global Gold and a co-founder of goldandliberty.com, joins Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros to discuss resistance to the EU in Switzerland and Iceland, the upcoming Brexit referendum, and growing Euroscepticism in Germany.

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Cultural Marxism and the Birth of Modern Thought-Crime

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  What the Establishment Wants, the Establishment Gets If a person has no philosophical thoughts, certain questions will never cross his mind. As a young man, there were many issues and ideas that never concerned me as they do today. There is one que...

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11 on the Nutty Scale – Banks are Paying Interest to Mortgage Borrowers

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  Wicked Don Giovanni GUALFIN, Argentina – Tuesday evening, we went to the main opera house in Buenos Aires, the Teatro Colón, to see Mozart’s Don Giovanni. On our way over, our taxi driver told us that Luciano Pavarotti rated it as the second best o...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 18.04.2016 – Angespanntes Verhältnis zwischen USA und Saudi-Arabien

2016-04-18

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Weitere Themen: – Helikoptergeld: Geld ohne Wert – OPEC-Treffen gescheitert: Ölpreise auf Talfahrt – US-Wirtschaft “over the edge” www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

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George Friedman: Eastern Europe Is Trapped Between Russia and the West

2016-04-18

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George Friedman writes the free weekly column “This Week in Geopolitics” (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/subscribe-twig) for Mauldin Economics. Subscribe now 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. — The European Union’s eastern bloc finds the ongoing refugee crisis annoying but …

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Double Whammy Economics

2016-04-16

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2016-04-16

What’s up with U.S. consumers? They seem to have come to their senses at the worst possible time. They can no longer be counted on to push economic growth up and to the right. Specifically, they’re not spending money on stuff.A little public service on etymology: “Double whammy” was reportedly first used in a 1941 Oakland Tribune article related to boxing. It means a devastating blow, setback or catastrophe. In today’s economy, it often means...

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Why All Central Planning Is Doomed to Fail

2016-04-15

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2016-04-15

We’re still thinking about how so many smart people came to believe things that aren’t true. Krugman, Stiglitz, Friedman, Summers, Bernanke, Yellen – all seem to have a simpleton’s view of how the world works.

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Circulus in probando

2016-04-15

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2016-04-15

In the latest semi-annual Keynesian incantation spewed out by the world’s best pseudo-scientists, we learn that growth has been too slow for too long and that in itself is the cause of slow growth. First, they promote debt-funded consumption because ...

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A Take On How Negative Interest Rates Hurt Banks That You Will Not See Anywhere Else

2016-04-14

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2016-04-14

The Bank of Japan and the ECB are assisting me in teaching the world's savers, banking clients and corporations about the benefits of blockchain-based finance for the masses. How? Today, the Wall Street Journal published "Negative Rates: How One Swis...

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Who Lends to the Fed?

This leads to our present question. To speak of borrowing and a ready market in which the Fed can borrow, means there is a lender. Who is the lender to the Fed?

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China – A Reversal of Urbanization?

2016-04-13

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2016-04-13

  Economic and Demographic Changes We have discussed China’s debt and malinvestment problems in these pages extensively in the past (most recently we have looked at various efforts to keep the yuan propped up). In a way, China is like the proverbial ...

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Argentina – The Times, They Are A-Changing

2016-04-13

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2016-04-13

  Our Argentine “Ranch Rebellion” Is Over… for Now… BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Not much action on Wall Street yesterday. The Dow sold off slightly. Gold and oil were up a bit. How about here in Argentina? “Everything has changed. Everything.”   Mauric...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 13.04.2016 – Goldkäufe und Goldminen kommen in Schwung

2016-04-13

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Goldkäufe und Goldminen kommen in Schwung: Diskussionen um Brexit, Bargeldabschaffung und andere Krisenherde befeuern diese Entwicklung. Mit Cashkurs-Gold.de verfolgen wir die Chancen an den Rohstoffmärkten ganz genau und bieten Ihnen Hilfestellungen zu Investments in diesem Bereich. Die weiteren Themen des heutigen Tagesausblicks: – China: Vordergründig gute Wirtschaftsdaten befeuern Märkte – IWF senkt (wieder) Weltwirtschaftsprognose...

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State of Fear – Corruption in High Places

2016-04-13

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2016-04-13

  Mr. X and his Mysterious Benefactors As the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports, a money-laundering alarm was triggered at AmBank in Malaysia, a bank part-owned by one of Australia’s “big four” banks, ANZ. What had triggered the alarm...

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In Memoriam: Dr. Tibor Machan

2016-04-11

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2016-04-11

  A Rara Avis – The World Is Poorer Without Him In It Our friend Dr. Tibor Machan, a greatly valued contributor to this site, has passed away on March 24.   Dr. Tibor Machan, libertarian philosopher   Unfortunately, we haven’t known Tibor for very lo...

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ZIRP, NIRP, QE, Bank Collapse and Helicopters Coming Too Late – The Lehman Effect Hits Europe – Hard!

2016-04-11

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2016-04-11

It's official, I'm calling a banking crisis in Europe. Things didn't go well the last time I did this. Of course, many will say, "But the rating agencies have learned their collective lessons. They would most assuredely warn us if the European banks...

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A Fatal Flaw in the System

2016-04-11

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2016-04-11

  The Hard Rocks of Real Life BALTIMORE – The Dow dropped 174 points on Thursday, the biggest fall in six weeks. Not the end of the world. Maybe not even the end of this year’s bounce-back bull run. As you’ll recall, stocks sold off at the beginning ...

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Gold – The Best Defense Strategy

2016-04-08

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2016-04-08

  The War on Cash is on! If you are used to making visits to your bank to make your credit card payments, you may find this no longer an option in the future. Some banks are no longer accepting (or limiting their acceptance) of cash deposits. The war...

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