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How You Become a Crony

2016-12-31

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2016-12-31

Goldman Sachs Group
BALTIMORE – Who’s the biggest winner so far? “Government Sachs!” Fortune magazine reports that the winningest person since Trump’s election is Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

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Wreck the Halls

2016-12-30

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2016-12-30

Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, Daily
Despite the best efforts of the bulls to make history happen, they’ve been unable to ‘git-r-done.’ At the time of this writing, the Dow is facing another bout of arrested development; it has yet to notch 20,000 for the very first time.

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#44 Was sind ETFs? | TW in Brasilien

2016-12-30

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Kleine Informationen können Ihnen viel Geld sparen. So auch heute wieder. Wissen Sie, was sogenannte ETF’s sind und warum die viel Geld sparen können? Das war eine Frage von einer Leserin aus unserer Klartext-Community. Das beantworte ich Ihnen in der heutigen Ausgabe von „Faszination Freiheit“. Ich freue mich, dass ich wieder eine spektakuläre Location mit Ihnen teilen darf. Dieses Video zu drehen war nicht einfach. Als ich oben auf der...

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FRIEDMAN: Russia’s Done the US a Favor in Syria

2016-12-29

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Download the FREE special report “Top 3 Economic Surprises for 2017” from George Friedman: http://bit.ly/2ih5W5n

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Fake News? It’s All Fake!

2016-12-29

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2016-12-29

the addled cannibals
BALTIMORE – In January of this year, the Empire Herald reported that a “meth-addled couple” had eaten a homeless man in New York City’s Central Park. Later, Now8News reported that a can of cookie dough had “exploded in a woman’s vagina”; the woman was alleged to be shoplifting.

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FRIEDMAN: Energy Prices Will Hit These Two Nations Hard in 2017

2016-12-28

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Download the FREE special report “Top 3 Economic Surprises for 2017” from George Friedman: http://bit.ly/2ih5W5n

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Dimitri Speck zur Gold und Silberpreismanipulation durch die Grossbanken

2016-12-27

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http://www.metallwoche.de “Es ist ein Anfang und eine schöne Bestätigung für meine jahrelange Arbeit,” sagt Dimitri Speck, Marktanalytiker von Seasonax, Goldmarktexperte und Autor des Buches “Geheime Goldpolitik“, “aber zwei große ‘Spieler’, die noch nicht benannt wurden fehlen mir noch.” Speck hat schon sehr frühzeitig Manipulationen zu Zeiten der Londoner Gold- und Silberfixings statistisch aufgezeigt....

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How to Invest in the New World Order

2016-12-26

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2016-12-26

In our latest Toward a New World Order, Part III we ended by promising to look closer at investment implications from the political and economic shift we currently find ourselves in; and that story must begin with the dollar.

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Moody’s & Reserve Bank of Australia Warn of Increasing Mortgage Arrears and Looming Apartment Defaults

2016-12-25

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2016-12-25

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Moody’s & Reserve Bank of Australia Warn of Increasing Mortgage Arrears and Looming Apartment Defaults. Last Wednesday Moody’s reported that mortgage arrears continue to rise across Australia, particularly in the mining states of WA & NT:

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As Central Bankers Spin

2016-12-25

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2016-12-25

I know that I resemble the old guy in this cartoon, standing by helplessly as I watch central bankers experiment with the global economy. Bubbles are blown, again, in several asset classes. Negative interest rates have become an acceptable concept, as if they are just words and have no real economic meaning.

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Ronald Stöferle: Austrian Investing

2016-12-22

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As our great friend Dr. Bob Murphy said on an earlier show, knowledge of economics is necessary—but not sufficient—to be be a good investor. A new book entitled ‘Austrian School for Investors’ (https://mises.org/P11022), co-authored by our guest, Ronald Stöferle, bridges the gap between understanding the economy and understanding how to invest money, in a highly …

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FRIEDMAN: Trump’s Biggest Problem Is Not the Democrats

2016-12-22

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Download the FREE special report “Top 3 Economic Surprises for 2017” from George Friedman here: http://bit.ly/2ih5W5n

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FRIEDMAN: There’s No Such Thing as Europe Anymore

2016-12-22

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Download the FREE special report “Top 3 Economic Surprises for 2017” from George Friedman: http://bit.ly/2ih5W5n

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Are Some of Trump’s Ideas Socialist? | Ryan McMaken

2016-12-21

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John Stossel and Ryan McMaken discuss the similarities between President-elect Donald Trump’s ideas and socialism. Broadcast on “Stossel” on FoxBusiness on Friday, 9 December 2016. http://www.foxbusiness.com/shows/stossel.html

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The Reign of Bubble Finance

2016-12-21

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2016-12-21

Ross Wilbur
Financialization Genius BALTIMORE – When we left you last time, we were in the middle of describing the crooked hind leg of crony capitalism. We used billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross – Donald Trump’s pick for the Department of Commerce – for illustration purposes. Not that there is anything wrong with Mr. Ross. He plays the game, just as everyone else does. He’s particularly good at it.

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Ker Commentary – Currency controls in India | Jayant Bhandari with Cory Fleck

2016-12-20

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Jayant is constantly traveling the world to look for investment opportunities, particularly in the natural resource sector. He advises institutional investors about his finds. He 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. The Interview …

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 19.12.2016 – Apple weigert sich gegen EU-Strafzahlungen

2016-12-19

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Apple verweigert Steuer-Strafzahlungen: “Sie können ja mal versuchen, Ihre Einkommenssteuer für ein paar Jahrzehnte zwischenzuparken, bis die Steuergesetze Ihnen niedrigere Steuerzahlungen ermöglichen” – Dirk Müller im heutigen Tagesausblick auf Cashkurs.com __________________ Jetzt das neue Cashkurs kennenlernen – mit Weihnachtsangebot auf www.cashkurs.com/ www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu...

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Toward A New World Order, part III

2016-12-19

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2016-12-19

A new world order is coming of age and the transition is painful to accept for a Western middle class with a deep-seated sense of entitlement. We showed how the West feels threatened globally in Toward a New World Order and followed up explaining how this translate into domestic politics in Toward a New World Order Part II. We will now continue this series by showing how gross economic mismanagement have created the new political class that we...

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Has the Fed Turned “Hawkish?”

2016-12-18

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2016-12-18

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Juiced, Stimulus, in a general sense, is something that causes an action or response. A ringing alarm clock may prompt someone to exit their slumber. Or a fist to the gut may force someone to gasp for breath.

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“This Is Total Chaos” – Venezuela Shuts Colombia Border To Stop “Mafia” Currency Smuggling

2016-12-18

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2016-12-18

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As if things were not already chaotic enough in the socialist utopia of Venezuela, following President Nicolas Maduro's decision to follow Indian PM Modi's playbook and announce that the nation's largest denomination bill (100-Bolivars - worth around 3c) will be pulled from circulation in 72 hours, he has tonight closed the border to Colombia to crackdown on currency smuggling by so-called "mafias".

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