The OECD has confirmed what our computer models have been warning that we are entering into the collapsing stage of Western Civilization that is being caused by Marxist-Keynesianism. Government keeps raising taxes and hunting down the rich, which is destroying capital formation and thus the prospects for long-term economic growth. This Marxist attitude of government […]

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Many people have written asking how we were able to reconstruct the monetary history of Rome. We built one of the most comprehensive collections ever assembled much of which is outlined in our Monetary History of the World segment. The purpose of assembling such a massive collection was to be able to see the rise […]

There has been a lot of talk on how Snowden is the NSA’s biggest nightmare. At the core of the issue is the right to privacy and this is what people forget. There is nobody who would argue against international intelligence gathering. However, despite what people are led to believe, just like the IRS scandal […]

Only in America is it possible when the rich people – who pay 86% of all income taxes – are accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all. And then, politicians can talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event […]

Back in 1929, the then US Secretary of State Henry Stimson closed down his department’s code-breaking office because, he said, “gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”  The end of a society historically is marked by paranoia. MSN reports on Obama orders government employees to spy on each other. What Obama cannot grasp is once you begin […]

Perhaps the number one question I always get about the ordeal I went through and the sheer chaos that surrounded everything, was just who really was behind the plot to blackmail the former head of Russia Boris Yeltsin to stop him from running for reelection in 2000 and hand-pick Boris Abramovich Berezovsky? It is true […]

Interest Rates are not actually within the scope of the Fed’s power. It can create a base rate, but everything from there is indirect. That is why the Fed bought in 30 year bonds. It was hoping to create a shortage of long-term to reduce mortgage rates and encourage capital to buy mortgages. Everything they […]

In the wake of Wednesday’s surprisingly questioning of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, he has unleashed a massive selloff in the US dollar by giving the reverse impression that the Fed may exit from monetary accommodation and easing. Bernanke stated that the Federal Reserve was failing on both of its core mandates, and that inflation was too low and unemployment too high. […]

  One of the most fascinating aspects of market/economic behavior is how the majority MUST be wrong in order to fuel the movement. There are loads of articles and forecasts questioning the recovery and how the world will collapse into a black hole. But if everyone is short dollars/long gold it will never happen. Tons […]