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Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Jim Cramer's Gold Gene

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According to Kitco , Jim Cramer has predicted a 15% increase in the price of gold.  I last bought a physical ounce of gold in the fall of 20...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

I'm Betting on a Rising Stock Market

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The belief that the stock market will go up forever is  a bubble psychology that goes back to the South Sea Bubble, which fooled even Sir Is...
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Clive Crook's Groupthink

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I stayed in my apartment in Astoria, Queens last night because of a dental appointment this afternoon.  Because I keep basic cable there, I ...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Gold Hits Record High

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The Street.com  reports that gold hit a record high (in nominal dollars) at $1258.30 per ounce.  I view this as a speculative market driven ...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Tax Increase or Gold Standard?

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The Midas Letter (h/t Kitco ) predicts that there will a bi-partisan consensus as to a massive tax increase following the midterm election ...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

An Open Letter to Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

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Dear Mr Hu : If the Chinese adopt a systematic laissez-faire economic policy and a hard money, gold standard, then they will have the world...
Monday, February 9, 2009

President Andrew Jackson on the Current Economic "Crisis"

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President Andrew Jackson vetoed the Congressional bill renewing the charter of the Second Bank of the United States and then moved the feder...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dollar Liberation

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Llewellyn Rockwell of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has written an excellent blog on monetary reform and the gold standard. Rockwell notes...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Bernanke Discovers the Dollar

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The valiant New York Sun has printed my letter in its June 10th edition and online here : 'Bernanke Discovers the Dollar' Thank you...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Abolish the Fed and Go on a Diet

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The media continue to avoid the biggest story of the coming decade, the decline of the dollar. The economy is important to everyone, even mo...
Monday, November 5, 2007

Gold and Commodity Exposure in Your Portfolio

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John Maynard Keynes quoted Lenin as saying that best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. There is debate wheth...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

How to Make US Business More Competitive?

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Q. Dear Professor Langbert, I really enjoy the feedback you supply at the end of the forums. I have one question for you- what can be done t...
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Monday, October 1, 2007

Unions and Money: Labor Unions Are Anti-Worker Because They Are Pro-Inflation

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Freeman and Medoff have written a famous book, "What Do Unions Do?" in which they distinguish between the voice and monopoly fac...

Howard S. Katz's "Bad News"

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Howard S. Katz has posted a fascinating blog entitled "Bad News" which I reproduce below: >"I have bad news for all young...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Thirty-six Years Late and Ten Trillion Dollars Short

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Goldbug Howard S. Katz blogs that media coverage of the Fed is rife with fraud. There is no difference, notes Katz, between the Fed's r...

Hillary Clinton Revives the Major Douglas Social Credit Concept--Republicans Should Advocate Peoples' Equity Plan Instead

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The New York Daily News reports that Hillary Clinton has proposed a "baby bond" scheme whereby each newborn baby will receive a $...
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Monday, September 17, 2007

The Depreciating Dollar

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The New York Sun , New York's best newspaper, has run a front page editorial concerning the dollar, which the Sun argues, should be cal...
Monday, May 28, 2007

How to Re-Monetize Gold

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Lenny Rann responds to my earlier blog as follows : Rann writes: >"We have exceeded the ability to regulate our currency along the g...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Ethanol and Inflation

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Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail blogs that Heather Stewart of the London Observer has covered the story that Al Gore's fight aga...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Corporate versus Private Welfare: The Case of Inflation

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Is it better to advocate welfare for corporations via loose Fed policy and inflationary interest rates, or is it better to advocate welfare ...