How does a lawyer get in charge of an economic institution? Easy – another lawyer appoints her. Lagarde, Obama’s crony, should be stripped of her position and the IMF should be shut down. Lagarde’s IMF is now demanding that Ukraine must hold on to the Eastern provinces of Ukraine or this insane woman has dictated that […]

While the gold promoters continue to argue this is wrong and gold will soar to thousands of dollars, the trend is not yet ready for prime time. On a nearest futures basis, a monthly closing below 1251 will signal a drop is at hand. Our support still lies at 1155 and 904 so nothing has […]

QUESTION: How far in the future does your computer model project? ANSWER: One of the fascinating aspects about modeling the world economy is you rapidly discover that the complexity is enormous, yet the outcome is far more predictable Long-Term than Short-Term. This may seem illogical at first, but once you comprehend the dynamics of the system […]

Hylton v. United States – 3 U.S. 171 (1796) Case U.S. Supreme Court Hylton v. United States, 3 U.S. 3 Dall. 171 171 (1796) Hylton v. United States 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 171 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Syllabus February Term, 1796 On the 4th of February, a commission, bearing […]

In Venezuela,  President Nicolas Maduro is boosting Venezuela’s minimum wage to defend workers’ salaries against inflation running at nearly 60 percent annually. He said that the 30 percent increase for wages and pension payments will take effect Thursday, in honor of the May 1 international workers day. It follows a 10 percent boost in January. Here […]

Real Estate is the choice at this time to get capital off the grid. We are seeing Chinese still buying Australian Property for now and wealthy Russians are looking at Putin raising taxes and the rubble of the ruble as a justification to get capital out of banks and into property. Even the wealthy Ukrainians […]

  The title of the next book that needs to be written is not War & Peace, but War and Debt. The interesting complexity of continually borrowing with no intention of ever paying anyone back is a totally modern development post-WWII. This has simply never been done before and governments have no clue what to […]

The first quarter figures are in. International investment in Russia has collapsed. At least $64 billion has been sold in Russia as capital flees. This has to a largest extent helped the Euro as Europeans have been bringing their money homes. This trend will continue and will impact most of the Eastern bloc as capital […]

  There are two ideas that have been responsible for killing more people than anything in history and they both came from the French elite. The first was the idea that land was wealth. This was propagated by the Physiocrats who argued agriculture was the wealth of a nation. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was […]

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