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Kali Yuga

18th July 2022 Emile Woolf 4603 Comments

The level of economic understanding has never been lower My last essay focused on the sheer insanity of current pseudo-Conservative policies. I sent it out on the “Going-Postal” blog platform, and was rewarded with some [more…]

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All other things being equal

13th June 2022 Emile Woolf 3285 Comments

A paradox is an apparent absurdity or contradiction that, on close investigation, is found to be true. What’s happening in government right now is hardly paradoxical – it certainly appears to be both absurd and [more…]

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Is Switzerland still a safe jurisdiction for precious metals investors?

25th April 2022 Going Postal 1845 Comments

Over the last two years, we’ve all witnessed state abuses of power and extreme overreaches the likes of which many average citizens had never imagined they’d see in their own lifetimes. This caused a great [more…]

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Russia’s “gold peg”: Lessons for Western investors

20th April 2022 Going Postal 3037 Comments

It is undeniable that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has polarized Western societies to an extent unseen in decades in any other foreign conflict. For over a month, we have been bombarded unceasingly by all [more…]

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Cantillon effect: Who’s paying the highest price?

11th April 2022 Going Postal 3081 Comments

Every time we hear government officials announce their big spending plans, their new welfare programs and their ambitious “job creating” schemes, they always present them as being in defense of the poorest and the most marginalized [more…]

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How Bad Is Currency Debasement of the Dollar?

4th April 2022 Patrick Barron 1811 Comments

Well, currency debasement is pretty bad, as a few key statistics will reveal, but first some background. At the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 the US agreed that it would redeem dollars for gold at [more…]

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A Very Short Primer on What Causes Inflation

28th March 2022 Patrick Barron 3559 Comments

What almost everyone calls “inflation” is really a rise in the general price level. OK. But the real definition of “inflation” is inflation of the money supply. A rise in the general price level is [more…]

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Gizza job. I could do that

16th March 2022 Going Postal 3075 Comments

As regular non-readers of the comments will know, I spent a large part of 2020 (and some of 2019) looking for a job. Looking back at my spreadsheet I made approaching 60 applications, albeit quite [more…]

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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 2077 Comments

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]

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