The EU Commission is moving forward on a Financial Transaction Tax. This is pretended to impose more discipline on traders. The problem is there is nobody in government that even understands trading to regulate anything. This is just another tax and grab scheme. The supporters say it is nothing just 0.1%. That is how they […]

The questions about gold v the Dow seem to be relentless. Here seems to be the number one question people ask. “Are you saying Gold & the Dollar and Dow can rise together?” Most of the nonsense about gold are sales pitches designed to convince people to buy. They far too often are not well […]

606 F.2d 28 Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 97,120 Michael F. ARMSTRONG et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Clovis McALPIN et al., Defendants-Appellants. No. 1010, Docket 79-7042. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued June 13, 1979. Decided Sept. 12, 1979. J. Robert Lunney, New York City (Michael J. McAllister and James J. DeLuca, Lunney & […]

470 F.3d 89 Martin A. ARMSTRONG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joseph R. GUCCIONE, United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, and Marvin D. Morrison, Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Respondents-Appellees, Alan M. Cohen, Intervenor Receiver-Appellee. Docket No. 04-5448-PR(L). Docket No. 05-0280-PR(CON). United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Argued: January 24, 2006. Decided: November 27, […]

When you actually conduct studies of relationships that people ASSUME exist, you find that they rarely actually exist. Investigating stochastic behavior of the prices and volatility of of the leading commodity markets and comparing them to the debt and equity markets, produces a very interesting result. We observe a substantial degree of uniformity in the behavior […]

Copyright January 7th, 2013 All Rights Reserved       By There was a discovery made in 1772 near Vilui, Siberia of an intact frozen woolly rhinoceros. Here we had a prehistoric animal intact. This was followed by the more famous discovery of a frozen mammoth in 1787. You may be shocked, but these discoveries […]

U.S. Supreme Court Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, 158 U.S. 601 (1895) Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company (Rehearing) No. 898, 894 Argued May 6, 7, 8, 1895 Decided May 20, 1895 158 U.S. 601 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus […]

U.S. Supreme Court Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916) Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company No. 140 Argued October 14, 15, 1915 Decided January 24, 1916 240 U.S. 1 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus Under proper averments, a stockholder’s […]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE   by   JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge   New York Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920   PREFACE The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was […]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/01/13/26-year-old-internet-folk-hero-commits-suicide-after-years-of-government-harassment/ The turmoil over MIT & The US Government trying to imprison Swartz for 35 years has gone viral on a global scale. MIT has completely disgraced itself as being any sort of a place for higher education that seeks to imprison anyone with whom they disagree and thinks out of the box. MIT’s long […]