Born Libertarian: Doug Casey on Ron Paul and the Price of Freedom By The Gold Report The Gold Report: Doug, we are at your conference in Tucson, Arizona, the day after former Congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul gave the keynote speech to a sold-out crowd. How did you two first meet? Doug Casey: […]
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For a new shale discovery – however large it maybe – it would take years just to prove up its commercial viability, another few years to get the infrastructure running, and even more years before it produces enough to matter. This means there are tremendous opportunities to profit – for those who are in the know – while we wait for the rest of the world to catch up.
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All governments engage in larceny and fraud, using their authority to transfer wealth and power from the outsiders to the insiders. But the clever government does so by deception… while the clumsy one does so with no pretense or excuses. In the US, for example, the feds deny savers any financial return from their economies under the pretense of “economic stimulus.” Wage-earners get nothing, while bankers, speculators and zombie grifters are rewarded with ultra-low-cost financing, capital gains, bailouts, and giveaways.
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The following is a sample from Elliott Wave International’s new 40-page report, The State of the Global Markets — 2013 Edition: The Most Important Investment Report You’ll Read This Year. This article was originally published in the October 2012 issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast. When government gets into the act of speculation, the
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by David Galland, Managing Director Every nation-state has a body of laws woven into the fabric of society. As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has commented on extensively, the stronger the rule of law, the stronger the economy. And by “stronger” laws, I mean laws that are impervious to tampering for personal or political gains.
H.A.R.P. Government Mortgage Refinance Program It’s been nearly four years since the original version of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) was announced by the White House and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). HARP is part of an Obama administration initiative to bring stability to the U.S. housing market by helping homeowners avoid foreclosure.
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AIG is suing the Government. At first it seems highly ungrateful for AIG to sue its “White Knight” who swooped in to rescue it in its time of need. But when we look a bit deeper we may find that all is not as it seemed at the time. Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky,
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Government Targets Breeders It occurs to every kid of a certain age. Let’s say the kid has a hamster, and then two, and they make babies. New value, new commodities. This is fantastic! Maybe the kid can breed hamsters, sell them, and make a few bucks. The capital investment is low and the returns are
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Bill Gross Recommends Gold by Chris Vermeulen Lately we’ve heard a lot about the PIIGS in the “Ring of Fire”. Usually the ring of fire is used to describe a horseshoe shaped area of of volcanoes in the Pacific Rim. But in this case it is referring to the PIIGS i.e. Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. But in a
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is the only global carbon trading system which is designed to create funding to give poor countries access to new energy technologies; and it is on the verge of collapse. The UN’s system has raised billions of dollars over the past seven years to develop renewable energy projects, such as
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