By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD My local newspaper ran a story about the escalating battle between Amazon.com and the state of California. At issue is the collection of sales tax: Governor Jerry Brown signed a law requiring online retailers to collect state sales tax on purchases made by CA residents. Before the ink dried on […]
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According to former GOP Senator Judd Gregg, the U.S. government borrows 41 cents out of every dollar it spends. In other words, if they can’t borrow any more money it means they have to cut 41% of the budget. According to Gregg, “The practical effect of hitting the debt limit is not that the entire
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Yesterday we looked at how the government’s separation of Gold from money has allowed it to grow out of control contrary to the intentions of our founding fathers. Had the money remained chained to gold the government’s ability to wage war, offer unlimited social programs and grab power would have been severly curtailed. So of
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What is Fascism? We’ve often heard the word but what exactly is fascism? Historians, political scientists and other scholars have spent long hours trying to define the exact nature of fascism. Since each occurance of fascism is distinct, it is difficult to define. The three common threads of fascism are Nationalism, Authoritarian with a strongly regulated economic
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This week two major court cases chipped away at our 4th amendment rights one by the Indiana courts and another by the U.S. Supreme court. Pretty soon they might as well just cross out the 4th amendment because it will be totally meaningless. In the Indiana case, the court ruled that it is against the law to resist officers trying to enter your residence even if they don’t have a warrant and are entering illegally. In the Supreme Court Case, they ruled that officers could enter a house without a warrant and subsequently arrest the occupants if they heard noises that made them assume that evidence was being destroyed. In the following article, David Galand addresses the herd mentality and why we as freedom-loving Americans are putting up with this, how it affects our investments and what we can do about it.
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By Tim McMahon, Editor It’s not just the government’s finances that are out of control it is the government itself. Just this week several examples of an out of control government have crossed my desk. 1) The first is a law passed by the Indiana state legislature which makes it against the law to resist
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By Terry Coxon, The Casey Report It was Otto von Bismarck who explained that “politics is the art of the possible.” We can thank him for that much, but he didn’t tell the whole story. I’ll give you the rest of it. Politics is the art of the possible fictions you can get away with.
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How can you profit in a climate of unemployment and increasing government debt? — editor by David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research These days, it’s hard to draw any conclusion other than that the train is gaining speed on wobbly tracks perched over a rickety bridge. Most notably, unemployment has again risen – to
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What if the modern version of society is really nothing more than a sleight of hand designed to fool the masses into becoming little more than government mules, allowed their simple pleasures in exchange for providing the muscle and the money needed to feed the beast?
In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:
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