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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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The Dangers of a “Cashless” Economy

9th October 2023 Patrick Barron 3260 Comments

What Is Legal Money? Before delving into the dangers of eliminating cash and mandating that all transactions be conducted by digital means, let us briefly discuss the legal aspects of money. In the United States, [more…]

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Intentional Causes and Unintentional Effects

18th September 2023 Emile Woolf 2868 Comments

Ursula Von der Leyen, Chief of the European Commission, complains bitterly that the Chinese are keeping the price of their electric cars artificially low by “giving their manufacturers huge state subsidies, and this is distorting [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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The lack of affordable housing? Blame it on 12 years of interest rate-suppression

27th March 2023 Emile Woolf 2721 Comments

The other evening my wife was watching Question Time on BBC 1. I wandered into the room and listened for 5 minutes, hearing panel members pontificating on what their respective political parties would do/are doing [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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Growth is the antidote to stagnation – but it requires knowledge and leadership

30th January 2023 Emile Woolf 1593 Comments

By now even Treasury officials and central banks recognise that their practice of Quantitative Easing has run its course. In its contemporary form, QE began a dozen years ago as a temporary emergency measure enacted [more…]

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“Markets and civil society are win-win institutions, government and politics are zero-sum.”

11th January 2023 Going Postal 3521 Comments

Interview with Jeff Deist, President Mises Institute, Auburn, USA Division, friction and polarization have been on the rise in the West for at least a decade, but the escalation we saw during the “covid years” [more…]

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Despite Their Hubris, Monetary Authorities Do Not Have Total Control

6th September 2022 Patrick Barron 3512 Comments

A new monetary age is coming and sooner than anyone thinks. Since 1971 the world’s monetary system has been unanchored from anything of intrinsic value. In the fall of that year President Nixon took the [more…]

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