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The Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Has Been Our Demise

In a 1958 speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, veteran CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow told a room full of TV executives, “We are...

Did Greenspan Invent BASIC Programming?

QUESTION: Did Alan Greenspan invent Basic Programming language and write programs for Arthur Burns to control the world financial system? This seems to be the...

Market Talk – July 25, 2015

Commodities and their currencies continued to suffer this past week to complete what has been probably the worst week in a very long time. Oil lost another 1%...

Politics: The Risk of a Third Party for 2016

Historically, the Republican Party is the one that splits. It has been an odd mixture of liberalism from the viewpoint of citizen rights before those of the...

The Tax Hunt for Loose Change – Germany To Cause Mass Exit of Existing Assets

Well if you ever needed PROOF that gold is not money, but rather simply an asset class, all you need to do is look at what governments are doing. They are hunting...

China Moving Closer to Taking the Yuan International

China’s move to create a yuan based contract for gold was portrayed by the gold promoters cheering this as their savior, but for all the hype, the mere fact...

Ferries Between Havana & Miami

Ferries carrying Cuban and American passengers will soon be sailing between Miami and Havana, right on time for the turn in the ECM. We are clearly looking at...

Market Talk – July 23, 2015

It has taken a while but today we saw the return of the sellers in the oil market. TWI and Brent both down around 1.7%, taking TWI to 48.25 last trade. Natural gas...

Gold – It Ain’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings

The problem with gold has been the gold promoters who use sophistry to sell their product, convincing so many people to lose everything they invest. The hate mail...

Closing Floor Trading Will Add to Liquidity Crisis

The CME has closed floor trading, which I contend will add to the crisis in LIQUIDITY. It is true that the argument has been that the floor traders amount to only a...