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Peter Schiff: Buy Gold, Dump Treasuries

On Monday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter reacts to a dramatic day in the markets where gold and especially silver steal the headlines, then connects those moves to political and monetary developments that he says make the dollar vulnerable. He ties a sudden surge in precious metals to a new scandal around Fed […]

Metals Tell the Truth About the Economy

Gold and silver are sniffing out the inflationary regime. Rising together, even after pullbacks, the historic run in precious metals is part of a desperate SOS signal for the economy. The Fed isn’t the only one printing money. Trump is floating plans for 50-year mortgages and payments for veterans, seeking any justification for “stimulus” that […]

Why the Free Market is Not Taking Advantage of You

The central claim of this article is that aside from regulatory barriers, the market will never leave normal people in a worse state than they would be in without the market. This is made to combat the frequent claims that the market is unfair or that people would somehow be better off without it. Workers […]

Will the Silver Boom Raise the Price of Tech?

Silver is booming. So, is Elon Musk right that the industrial need for silver will reveal that recent price action is only a bubble?  Or will the rise continue, raising the price of technology in the process? One of the downstream effects of higher silver prices could certainly be higher prices for other goods that […]

Why the State Must Live Within its Means

While Keynesians and any number of control based economists can provide endless reasons to justify government debt, it has proven to be one of the greatest underlying problems undermining the US’s national integrity. Debt has been a contentious national issue, yet no party or politician has been serious about it enough to do anything significant. […]

Is Government Intervention the Solution to the Great AI Replacement?

Most careers today have some possibility of being diminished or replaced by artificial intelligence. This has sparked great fears among many citizens and academics that most people will end up without a job and business elites will keep getting richer. They believe that there will be a vast structural surge of unemployment in which the […]

Gov. Fails Crisis Preparedness 101

While the US government has a strong incentive to have its people prepared for war and crisis, it has effectively decreased their preparedness for anytime the world does not go “business as usual.” The state has many peace time initiatives that have actually greatly inhibited the ability of people to sustain themselves when traditional supply […]

Germany’s Painfully Boring Economic Decline

While it’s been known for many years that Germany’s economy is in poor health, the debate about the cause is quite contentious. Some claim that the government should have stepped in earlier while others claim that the government was the problem the whole time. Numerous German governments have tried to tackle this problem, but to […]

​​The Austrian Mindset and the Ambiguous Future

One of the key tenets of Austrian economics is a deep focus on process rather than outcomes. While many other forms of economic or political theory have a stronger emphasis on results, Austrian economics is unique in that it believes that the best results will ultimately arise from the enablement of good processes rather than […]

All Government Action Requires Vision

Political science is a great misnomer that disguises the true nature of the art of ruling. It pretends that politics is an objective science that can be examined using the same boundaries of knowledge as the physical sciences. However, politics bears a great burden that will forever separate it from the natural sciences: it is […]