US Population Year Population Growth % Annual Change 1776 2,500,000 1777 2,582,059 3.28 82,059 1778 2,666,811 3.28 84,752 1779 2,754,345 3.28 87,534 1780 2,844,752 3.28 90,407 1781 2,938,127 3.28 93,375 1782 3,034,567 3.28 96,440 1783 3,134,172 3.28 99,605 1784 3,237,047 3.28 102,875 1785 3,343,298 3.28 106,251 1786 3,453,037 3.28 109,739 1787 3,566,378 3.28 113,341 1788 […]

The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of March 28th, 2014. Global Market Watch

As of April 1st, Japan is raising a consumption tax from 5% to 8% on gold. Japan imposes a retail consumption tax on gold unlike most other countries. Indeed, the tax increased caused an early jump in gold sales in Japan during March. However, taxes are effecting gold in many ways. Because silver is taxes […]

The home of IMF chief Christine Lagarde was raided by anti-corruption police investigating her near $400 million pay-off of a prominent Nicolas Sarkozy supporter when she was French finance minister. Simply put, you cannot rise that high up in France without a corruption scandal.

President Vladimir Putin addressed his nation on Friday describing Russia’s takeover of Crimea as demonstrating Russia is back and the Russian flag is now flying over all military sites on the Black Sea peninsula. Putin addressed the nation saying … “The recent events in Crimea were a serious test…”  and that the Russian military “demonstrated both […]

Friday – March 21st – 1-5 PM EST We have recorded the full 4 hour Cycles of War Conference that is available for viewing on a video streaming. We covered the Cycles of War that will be coming out as a book given the demand for this subject has been so massive on a global […]

Putin’s swift annexation of Crimea has been extremely popular in Russia and is akin to restoring the national pride within Russia as was the case of Ronald Reagan following the heals of Jimmy Carter and the whole Iran Hostage debacle. Putin has lost Ukraine for now, but the economic conditions within the EU and the […]

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) announced on Thursday that a $14 to $18 billion “bailout” for Ukraine is contingent on Kiev’s imposition of stringent austerity measures. It is amazing that not even Obama would comply with such austerity. These people have no clue as to how to run a nation and their theories are more-likely-than-not […]

Christine Lagarde is a french lawyer who became chairman of the Chicago firm Baker & McKenzie. Obama endorsed Lagarde ahead of the vote claiming a woman would be proper after  Dominique Strauss-Kahn, had to resign after being charged with attempted rape in New York. However, the maid was found to be anything but credible and there is […]

The seating for 300 at the Cycles of War Conference sold out and additional hundreds viewed it around the world live. The video streaming appears to work well – it was our first attempt at a worldwide broadcast. The feed seems to work for people in China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, India, and the Middle […]