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  • Rogue Money Radio – Guest: Bix Weir (03/18/2016)

    Posted on April 28, 2016 10:51 pm by Jon Comment

    V Sits down with Bix Weir one of the foremost experts in banker fraud, Precious Metals manipulation and father of the “Road To Roota” theory.

    This entry was posted in Banking Corporate Economy Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Geopolitics Gold Government History Precious Metals Psychology Silver and tagged Bix Weir Rogue Money Radio

  • Politics, Hypocrisy or just BS?

    Posted on March 4, 2014 3:13 pm by Jon Comment

    John Kerry's remarks on Russian troops in Crimea, Ukraine

    This entry was posted in Government Politics Psychology and tagged Crimea John Kerry Libya Muamar el Gadafi Russia Ukraine US Vladimir Putin

  • Is Money the Root of All Evil?

    Posted on March 4, 2014 8:59 am by Jon Comment

    Mike Maloney reads from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.  Specifically, the part of the story where Francisco d’Anconia gives his discourse on money, how it is earned by productive people and either looted or mooched away by unproductive people.  After questioning whether or not money is the root of all evil, Francisco asks, “What the root of money?”

    Francisco’s ‘money speech’ can also be read at Capitalismmagazine.com.

    A most excellent excerpt:

    When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Government History Politics Psychology and tagged Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Fiat Money Francisco d’Anconia Medium of Exchange Mike Maloney Money Moral Existence Paper Money Taxes Trade Value Wealth

  • The Retail Death Rattle

    Posted on January 21, 2014 2:00 am by Jon Comment

    A stunning, must-read dose of economic reality entitled, The Retail Death Rattle, is posted over at The Burning Platform.

    Excerpt: The entire economic recovery storyline is a sham built upon easy money funneled by the Fed to the Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks so they can use their HFT supercomputers to drive the stock market higher, buy up the millions of homes they foreclosed upon to artificially drive up home prices, and generate profits through rigging commodity, currency, and bond markets, while reducing loan loss reserves because they are free to value their toxic assets at anything they please – compliments of the spineless nerds at the FASB. GDP has been artificially propped up by the Federal government through the magic of EBT cards, SSDI for the depressed and downtrodden, never ending extensions of unemployment benefits, billions in student loans to University of Phoenix prodigies, and subprime auto loans to deadbeats from the Government Motors financing arm – Ally Financial (85% owned by you the taxpayer). The country is being kept afloat on an ocean of debt and delusional belief in the power of central bankers to steer this ship through a sea of icebergs just below the surface.

    Read the entire post at The Burning Platform.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Government Psychology Trading Strategies and tagged Aldous Huxley Ally Financial Baby Boomers Bailout Bankruptcy Bernanke BLS CEOs Consumer Spending Discretionary Income EBT Emile Gauvreau FASB Fed Gas Prices GDP Greenspan Jamie Dimon JC Penney Labor Force Participation Layoffs Macy's Median Household Income Obama Oil Prices Over Expansion Radio Shack Retail Sales Savings Sears SSDI Store Closings Target Wal-Mart Wall Street

  • Glenn Beck on Germany’s [Rehypothecated] Gold

    Posted on January 16, 2014 8:06 am by Jon Comment

    Glenn Beck reviews Germany’s early 2013 request to repatriate 300 tonnes of gold held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then asks why the Fed responded with a pledge to return the gold in 7 years.  If the gold exists, it should be a simple matter of shipping logistics.  But 7 years?  Beck goes on to logically speculate that the gold doesn’t, in fact, exist.  The gold that the Fed has so far returned, is not the original bars first delivered to the US from Germany some 70 years ago. They are newly recast bars.  Could it be that the original gold was long ago rehypothecated, in order to maintain the illusion of a strong dollar?  Beck believes it’s even worse – that the Fed and other western central banks of the world have not only rehypothecated each other’s gold, but have even sold or transferred the physical gold to new owners.

    One note of error: Beck says at one point in the video that the Fed reports holding about 6,700 tonnes of Germany’s gold. But this would be larger than Germany’s known gold reserves. As this chart shows, the Fed is only holding some 1,500 tonnes of Germany’s gold.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Precious Metals Psychology Trading Strategies and tagged Authenticity Blaze TV Central Banking Coin Clipping Coin Shaving Fed Federal Reserve Germany Glenn Beck Gold Standard Great Britain Indiana Jones Lars Shall Ponzi Scheme Purity Rehypothecate Sub Prime Crisis The Italian Job

  • Jim Kunstler’s 2014 Forecast

    Posted on January 6, 2014 10:21 pm by Jon Comment

    Over at ZeroHedge, Jim Kunstler’s latest post on his forecast for 2014 is a MUST READ!!  Readers should greatly benefit from his astonishingly honest take on everything from the shale oil sham to last year’s gold slam.  He even gets into Obamacare, Bitcoin the Euro crisis and the middle east.

    Excerpt: Paper and digital markets levitate, central banks pull out all the stops of their magical reality-tweaking machine to manipulate everything, accounting fraud pervades public and private enterprise, everything is mis-priced, all official statistics are lies of one kind or another, the regulating authorities sit on their hands, lost in raptures of online pornography (or dreams of future employment at Goldman Sachs), the news media sprinkles wishful-thinking propaganda about a mythical “recovery” and the “shale gas miracle” on a credulous public desperate to believe, the routine swindles of medicine get more cruel and blatant each month, a tiny cohort of financial vampire squids suck in all the nominal wealth of society, and everybody else is left whirling down the drain of posterity in a vortex of diminishing returns and scuttled expectations.

    Read the entire article at ZeroHedge.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Politics Precious Metals Psychology Trading Strategies and tagged Afordable Care Act BATS Ben Bernanke Bitcoin Bond Capital Formation Central Banks China Equity Markets ETC Federal Reserve Flash Trading Ford France Germany Goldman Sachs Greece Insurance Companies Iraq Italy Janet Yellen Japan Jim Kunstler Main Street Meltdown MF Global Middle East Mortgage Loans Natural Gas Obamacare Precious Metals Quantitative Easing Reality recovery Renaissance Saudi Arabia Shadow Banking Shale Oil Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom ZeroHedge

  • Peter Schiff: Fed Induced Phony Recovery is Bullish for Gold

    Posted on January 3, 2014 10:55 pm by Jon Comment

    Here’s Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital pointing out that the recent positive GDP numbers indicate that America is spending money – money that is just created by the Fed.  The GDP “is goosed.”   If the Fed decides to take all that easy money away, the propped up markets – stocks, housing, etc. – will collapse.  This, combined with the fact that most people don’t see the value of gold in this environment, makes Schiff even more bullish on the metal.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government Politics Precious Metals Psychology Trading Strategies and tagged Asset Bubbles Bitcoin Economic Collapse Economic Growth Emerging Markets Euro Pacific Capital Fed Fed Balance Sheet Federal Reserve GDP Housing Inflation Interest Rates Money Printing Peter Schiff Phony Statistics QE Stocks

  • Default or Inflate

    Posted on December 25, 2013 6:32 am by Jon Comment

    Here again is Mike Maloney showing the growth of America’s debt to GDP ratio and explaining how a default would hurt the elite bankers and investors, while inflation hurts the middle class savers.  Since they are in charge, which option do you think they’ll chose?

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Gold Government History Politics Precious Metals Psychology Silver and tagged Capitalism Collectivism Debt Default Debt to GDP Ratio Deficit Spending Economic Freedom Fed Federal Reserve GoldSilver.com Inflation Mike Maloney Wealth

  • James Rickards Critical of Ben Bernanke and the Fed

    Posted on December 19, 2013 6:27 am by Jon Comment

    James Rickards of Tangent Capital gives his critique of Ben Bernanke’s performance during his tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.  While some in the main-stream want to give Bernanke credit for ‘saving’ the global economy during the crisis of 2008, Rickards points out that Bernanke’s Fed helped create the crisis in the first place!

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Government History Politics Psychology and tagged 2008 Ben Bernanke CCTV America Central Banking Central Planners Corporate Credit Credit Crisis Currency Wars Deflation Fed Federal Reserve Global Economic Crisis Income Inequality Inflation Insolvent Banks Interest Rates James Rickards Janet Yellen Liquidity Crisis Oligarchy Operation Twist QE Quantitative Easing Taper

  • Then & Now – Hitler & Obama

    Posted on December 18, 2013 12:00 am by Jon Comment

    “So dictatorship didn’t happen overnight.  It took 5 years, gradually, little by little to escalate to a dictatorship,” Katie Worthman, a survivor of the Natzi regime stated about the coming to power of Adolf Hitler.  She explains how people became so desperate for change, that they elected and then turned over all control to the man who spoke so eloquently and promised a better life for those who had been oppressed.  But the state would eventually take complete control via centralization.  The political, economic, religious, education, healthcare, agricultural and communication systems became state-controlled bureaucracies.  There are so many parallels between what happened in Germany in the 1930’s and what has been happening in America over the past decade – even the purpose and installation of Germany’s Gestapo can be lined up with The U.S. Homeland Security initiatives.

    Take a few steps back and look objectively at the situation!

    When the people fear the government – that’s tyranny!
    But when the government fears the people, that’s liberty!

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Government History Politics Psychology and tagged Abortions Adolf Hitler Arian Austria Barack Obama Barbara Boxer Bill O'Reilly Change Chinese Communism Euthanasia Freedom Germany Gun Control Healthcare Honduras Jesse Jackson Katie Worthman Mexico Mikhail Gorbachev Natzi Obamacare Socialism Socialized Medicin Unemployment United States Volkswagon Wealth Redistribution World War II WWII

  • The Latest Budget Deal is a Joke

    Posted on December 11, 2013 8:10 pm by Jon Comment

    CNBC’s Rick Santelli and former director of the US Office of Management & Budget, David Stockman discuss the latest budget deal and how it’s beyond any sense of fiscal responsibility.

    • Eliminates caps – No ceilings to contend with for at least 2 years
    • Adds $70 billion in spending for 2013 and another $70 billion for 2014
    • Avoids most of the sequestered military & discretionary spending

    Talk about kicking the can!

    View at CNBC site
    Providing yet more commentary on the budget deal and background on our national debt, BrotherJohnF explains the numbers behind this fiasco and shows why the US government is already bankrupt.  If it weren’t for the phony numbers being expressed by government agencies, it would be too obvious. (See US Debt Clock here.)

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Government Politics Psychology and tagged BrotherJohnF CNBC David Stockman Debt Ceiling Defense Budget National Budget National Debt Rick Santelli Sequester Silver for the People US Debt Clock

  • Collectivism is Destroying Economic Freedom

    Posted on December 10, 2013 8:36 pm by Jon Comment

    Mike Maloney reviews the 2013 Annual Report – Economic Freedom of the World (available here) and shows how collectivism is destroying our economic freedoms.  Unlike the past, however, this is now happening globally.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Precious Metals Psychology Silver Trading Strategies and tagged Collectivism Economic Freedom Economic Prosperity Hugo Chaves Mike Maloney Socialism Venezuela

  • Four Horsemen – The Cycles of an Empire Revealed

    Posted on November 3, 2013 1:29 pm by admin Comment

    This documentary by the Renegade Economist reveals the cycles that all the empires of the world have followed and how they all eventually fail.  The current disparity between the very rich and the very poor is but one indication that today’s western empire, led by the U.S. is approaching its end.

    This entry was posted in and tagged Alan Greenspan Bail-Outs Bubble Economics Capitalism Classical David Morgan Debt Democracy Deregulation Empire Fed Federal Reserve Fiat Money Four Horsemen Fractional Reserve Banking GDP George Bush George Nilson Glass-Steagall Goldman Sachs Ha Joon Chang Housing Speculation James Turk John Perkins Joseph Stiglitz Larry Summers lobby Margaret Thatcher Max Keiser Michael Hudson Milton Friedman Monetary Debasement Neoclassical Noam Chomsky Oligarchy Plutocracy Profit Regulation Renegade Economist Ronald Reagan Simon Johnson Socialism Sub Prime Mortgages

  • Comedians Show Us The Truth

    Posted on October 26, 2013 7:26 pm by Jon Comment

    What is it about a comedian that gives him that uncanny ability to put the shocking and sad truths right in front of our eyes, and yet make us laugh at them?  First up is Jon Stewart showing how the main-stream media has wavered on its reporting stance of JP Morgan’s takeover of Bear Stearns in 2008 and its recent $13 billion settlement with the Justice Department over ‘alleged’ financial misdeeds.

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    And then there’s the slightly more serious delivery of the reality of our socioeconomic conditions in the western world by Russell Brand in this BBC interview by Jeremy Paxman.


    While the comedian usually does a good job of showing us the issues, their ideas on how to solve society’s problems can be questionable.   Peter Schiff takes up the opposition to Brand’s socialist remedy in the following video.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Government History Politics Psychology and tagged Alex Pareene BBC Bear Stearns CNBC CNN Economic Disparity Jamie Dimon Jeremy Paxman Jim Cramer Jon Stewart JP Morgan Justice Department Lawrence Kudlow Main Stream Media Maria Bartiromo New York Times Peter Schiff Profit Rebecca De Mornay Revolution Rupert Murdoch Russell Brand Tax Deductible Tom Cruise Vote Wall Street Journal WaMu Washington Mutual

  • CFTC Ends Five Year Investigation of Alleged Silver Market Manipulation

    Posted on September 26, 2013 2:25 pm by Jon Comment

    Please read the CFTC’s release carefully!!!  Too many articles on the web are incorrectly stating what was found or not found by the CFTC during its investigations.  But the release doesn’t report any findings other than stating “Based upon the law and evidence as they exist at this time, there is not a viable basis to bring an enforcement action with respect to any firm or its employees related to our investigation of silver markets.”  While it does not say that it found evidence of manipulation, it also does not say that it did not find any evidence.  It only states that they investigated the situation, by numerous means and with over 7,000 staff hours.

    This is important and very revealing.  If there were laws in place that allowed certain entities to manipulate the market, the CFTC would not be able to bring legal charges against those entities even if it found the allegations of manipulation to be true.  And, as Chris Powell of GATA has demonstrated, this is exactly the situation: The authority [of the government to interfere in any market] was given in the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, which established the Exchange Stabilization Fund in the Treasury Department.

    If you’re going to invest in precious metals, you need to be consciously aware that you are betting against the solvency of the United States.  The US government will indeed do all it can to defend its currency.  But they are cornered.  The western social-welfare/political-warfare state makes it necessary to debase the currency to keep everyone fat, dumb and happy.  Currency debasement techniques have been tried repeatedly throughout history, yet have always failed.  However, if the government can cast an illusion of prosperity, they’ll stay in power long enough to squeeze every last drop of real wealth from citizens.  That illusion remains in place today as all markets are either propped up or capped in order to keep everyone thinking everything’s fine.

    The ongoing saga of precious metals market rigging is documented here.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Government History Precious Metals Psychology Silver Trading Strategies and tagged 1934 CFTC Chris Powell Commodities Futures Trading Commission Exchange Stabilization Fund GATA Gold Reserve Act Silver Market Manipulation

  • Jim Rickards on All the Taper Hype: Look at the Data!

    Posted on September 25, 2013 10:38 am by Jon Comment

    Here’s some level-headed thinking from Jim Rickards, who was proven to be correct on his call that the Fed would not taper.  While the Fed would certainly like to taper, they’ve always stated that they would do so on the condition that the economic data continues to be strong.  But the economic reporting has been terrible, so the Fed didn’t taper and won’t until those reports show viable strength.  Jim also discusses what differences, if any, the upcoming Fed-chair change may make (none), gold’s future price expectations (higher) and his new book, The Death of Money (due out in April, 2014).


    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Politics Precious Metals Psychology Trading Strategies and tagged Ben Bernanke Buy the Dips China Chinese Floor Currency Wars Deflation Fed Fed Head Federal Reserve Hyperinflation Inflation Janet Yellen Jim Rickards Labor Force Participation Taper The Death of Money Unemployment

  • Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works

    Posted on September 24, 2013 12:21 pm by admin Comment

    Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates narrates this video, which gives a simplified explanation of how an economy really functions when controlled by a central bank, such as the US Fed.  He shows how there are short and long-term cycles which govern credit, debt, inflation and productivity.  Dalio ends the video with some simple rules to help maintain a healthy economic system:

    • Ensure debts don’t rise faster than income
    • Ensure income doesn’t rise faster than productivity
    • Try to keep increasing productivity as much as possible


    This entry was posted in and tagged Asset Austerity Bank Run Boom Bust Bridgewater Associates Credit Cycles Debt Debt Restructuring Deficit Spending Deflation Deleverage Depression Economic Machine Federal Reserve Fiscal Stimulus Income Interest Rates Liability Money Printing Productivity Ray Dalio Spending Cuts Taxes Treasury Unemployment Wealth Redistribution

  • The Decline And Fall Of The Dollar & The USA

    Posted on September 5, 2013 11:35 pm by admin Comment

    The following video from OneTruth4Life explains how America’s founding fathers created a sound money system, framed within Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.  It goes on to describe, in full detail, what’s happened since then – anti-Constitutional acts by certain government leaders and bankers, which debased the currency at various moments in history.  These acts seem to become more blatant as history proceeds, and have led to, or have been the primary motive for most, if not all, the military conflicts.  Furthermore, it will be the primary factor that will have brought the nation to its own doom at some point in the near future.


    This entry was posted in and tagged 1964 1971 911 Abraham Lincoln American Dollar Andrew Jackson Article 1 Bank Charter Banks and Corporations Benjamin Franklin Bill Clinton Bretton Woods California Gold Rush Charles de Gaulle China Coin Coinage Act of 1792 Cold War Constitution Deflation Demand Note Dime Eagle Executive Order 6102 FDR Fed Federal Reserve Federal Reserve Note First Bank of the United States Franklin D Roosevelt Frederic Bastiat Gold Certificate Gold Confiscation Gold Window Greenback Henry Kissinger HW Bush Inflation Iran Iraq James Madison JP Morgan King Faisal King George III Lawful Money Legal Tender Liberty Libya Money Money Trust Muammar Gaddafi NATO Nickle OPEC Paper Dollar Petrodollar Petrodollar Recycling Philadelphia Promissory Notes Revolution Richard Nixon Russia Saddam Hussein Saudi Arabia Second Bank of the United States Section 19 Section 8 Shall Suffer Death Silver Certificate Speculators Syria Thomas Jefferson US Mint Vietnam War World Reserve Currency World Trade Center

  • 140 Years of Monetary History (In 10 Minutes)

    Posted on August 27, 2013 11:58 am by Jon Comment

    Here again is Mika Maloney from GoldSilver.com with a great (and quick) review of what’s happened to the global monetary system in the last 140 years.  Mike explains how the world’s monetary system went from the classical gold standard in the late 1800’s to the floating fiat paper being used today.  Also quite interesting is the observation that the world’s monetary system seems to change approximately every 40 years. America’s “good as gold” dollar became the world’s reserve currency after World War II and has enjoyed its status as the world’s reserve currency.  After Nixon removed the dollar’s tie to gold in 1971, it freed the Federal Reserve & US Treasury to allow money to be created without limitation.  But now, too many dollars have been printed so we may be about to see another change in the global monetary system.

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Politics Precious Metals Psychology Silver Trading Strategies and tagged Adolph Hitler Bretton Woods Charles de Gaulle Currency Supply Deficit Spending Dollar Peg Federal Reserve Federal Reserve Act of 1913 Fiat Currency Foreign Exchange France Germany Gold Exchange Standard Gold Receipts Gold Standard GoldSilver.com Hyperinflation James Turk Mike Maloney Pearl Harbor Reserve Currency Reserve Ratio Richard Nixon US Dollar US Treasury World War I World War II WWI WWII

  • The Big Picture = Corruption

    Posted on August 8, 2013 1:25 pm by Jon Comment

    In a recent interview, Kyle Bass, the well-known founder of Hayman Capital, revealed that “There’s no real way out” of the current economic situation that has resulted from the fiscal profligacy of the central banks.  And later in that same interview, when asked his opinion of what the ‘average investor’ should be doing in this environment, Mr. Bass could only make the suggestion that they “should be very careful doing what the central bankers want them do.”  With low yielding interest rates, the central banks are pushing average investors into taking on more risk with higher yielding equities.

    But it’s even worse than that.  Fundamentals don’t seem to matter much in these uncharted economic waters.  Why?  Because as Barry Ritholtz has so thoroughly outlined in his Big Picture analysis of the markets – they’re all rigged!  The average investor is at the mercy of the big banks and crony capitalism.

    Yes, be very careful indeed!

    This entry was posted in Fiscal Policies Fundamentals Gold Government History Politics Precious Metals Psychology Silver Trading Strategies and tagged Barry Ritholtz Commodities Markets Crony Capitalism Currency Markets Derivatives Energy Markets Hayman Capital HFT High Frequency Trading Interest Rates Kyle Bass Market Corruption No Way Out Oil Prices Ponzi Schemes Precious Metals Rehypothecation Storage Fees The Big Picture

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