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The Great Taking

10th June 2025 Going Postal 3030 Comments

Interview with James Patrick, TheGreatTakingReport.com As many of my clients, friends and regular readers know well, I’ve spent the better part of the last decade criticizing all the great evils and trespasses of the State and [more…]

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Making Sense of American Craziness

24th April 2025 Going Postal 2347 Comments

The idea that England and America are two countries separated by the same language is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there are other attributes that separate us as well.  We in the US [more…]

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Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 2212 Comments

Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]

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Saving in gold is the only reliable way to save

6th May 2024 Going Postal 2429 Comments

For the longest time, according to conventional and widely embraced wisdom, all responsible and prudent members of society had to have a savings account. All those hardworking taxpayers and all those forward-thinking and sensible individuals [more…]

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Is gold too expensive to buy right now?

11th April 2024 Going Postal 2268 Comments

This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends. The way I like to answer it is with another question: Expensive compared to what? [more…]

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3 Grains of Death The New Opium Wars

8th August 2023 Going Postal 2438 Comments

We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]

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Single World Fiat Currency

15th May 2023 Patrick Barron 2302 Comments

Thorsten Polleit’s recent essay, The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency, explains the dangers of the current trend in the West to eliminate cash and create a world fiat currency in the place of [more…]

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Simplicity and Honesty in a New International Trade Settlement System

6th March 2023 Patrick Barron 2831 Comments

For many months now Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com has been writing about the efforts of a group of non-Western nations, led by Russian economist Sergey Glazyez, to establish a new settlement system for international trade. [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Six

20th February 2023 Going Postal 3092 Comments

Transfer of our capacity to manufacture goods and mine energy and resources to developing countries served to endorse our virtual assets as we established and dominated new markets with economic colonialism. Ludwig von Mises noted [more…]

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