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A lesson about 'free markets' from the 'Free World'

By Chris Powell, GATA

Are these governments and central banks ever privately communicating and coordinating their policies about gold? Respectable financial news organizations don't ask.

Surveillance State Quietly Taking Shape Across America

By Doug Casey, Casey Research

Doug Casey: I’m not sure there’s much you can do. Unless you want to move to the north woods and become a hermit.

It's Raining Gold in Antarctica!

By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals

Mt. Erebus is an active volcano. It’s not so much erupting as bubbling. Inside the volcano sits a permanent lake of blazing, molten rock. This hot lava emits a lot of gases. Mixed with the steam bubbling out of Mt. Erebus are microscopic particles of crystalline gold.

The Financial Technology That Burned Down Parliament

By David Russell, GoldCore

There is a difference between owning an asset and owning a claim connected to an asset. A depositor owns a claim against a bank, not a particular collection of notes held in its vault. An investor in a gold-backed product may...

FOMC HogWarsh

By Kelsey Williams

The question is whether falling bond prices and higher interest rates result from massively huge credit problems OR the ongoing U.S. dollar/inflation concerns. That is the never-ending dilemma...

Supply chain disruptions, droughts, higher farm input costs threaten global food supply

By Richard Mills, Ahead of the Herd

According to the World Food Program, an estimated 645M people face chronic hunger globally, and about 2.1B experience moderate or severe food insecurity. If the war in Iran continues, and there is no sign of it stopping, access to food will be even more restricted...

The Fed Conundrum: Who’s Got the Votes?

By John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline

This week’s vote from the Federal Reserve FOMC committee is going to have implications for quite some time. I think most of the pundits who are writing about this have their analysis wrong. This was not just a vote to not raise rates. I think there was a lot more going on behind the scenes.

Paulson: We're Still in the Early Stages of a Gold Bull Market

By Mike Maharrey, Money Metals

Some analysts say the sell-off was the end of the gold bull market; however, Paulson said the bull run is just getting started because the world is losing faith in fiat currencies.

Did Markets and the Government Just Get Real about Inflation?

By David Haggith, The Daily Doom

So, 1.5% real GDP growth is certainly nothing to boast about, and we’ve often seen these initial GDP numbers revised down in the next report.

The Gateway to Mexico

By Jacob Shapiro, Editor, The World Isn’t Ending at Mauldin Economics

While the politicians argue and squabble, the real economy is champing at the bit. What it needs is not a specific policy; it needs clarity over what the future looks like.

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