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More Thoughts on the BRICS and Gold vs. the US and the Dollar

31st July 2025 Going Postal 0

In a previous article I suggested that the BRICS, lead by China and Russia, might offer an alternative international trade settlement system that would be independent of the US and the dollar. The BRICS have [more…]

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Can the BRICS Nations Lead Us to a Better World?

17th July 2025 Patrick Barron 0

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS nations to [more…]

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Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 0

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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A Practical Way to Protect the Worldwide Trading System

4th February 2025 Patrick Barron 0

In a previous essay I pointed out that it is very likely that the US will isolate itself from the worldwide trading system due to it past, frankly, unlawful actions to steal the assets of [more…]

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Gold Will Destroy Keynesian Fallacies

24th August 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Great forces are in place to change the world in which we have lived since the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971. These forces cannot be stopped. The leaders of Western democracies are [more…]

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Dollar Hegemony Ending Due to Geopolitical Change

7th August 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Since the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 the dollar has been the world’s preferred reserve currency; i.e., the major trading nations of the world were willing to hold dollars in vast amounts to satisfy their [more…]

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Do Not Mourn the Fiat Dollar’s Demise as a Reserve Currency

19th June 2023 Patrick Barron 0

The US dollar has been the world’s premier reserve currency since the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. Until 1971 it was redeemable by foreign central banks in gold at $35 per ounce. As long as [more…]

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Simplicity and Honesty in a New International Trade Settlement System

6th March 2023 Patrick Barron 0

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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Retaining a Semblance of Sanity in the Asylum

21st November 2022 Emile Woolf 0

Every time I start this essay I find the political background has shifted so dramatically that I have to start again. Only Ollie’s complaint to Stan seems to be an apt constant: “another fine mess [more…]

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