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Fed Has Created an Economic Hall of Mirrors (Video)

Jim Grant agrees with Peter Schiff that the Federal Reserve cannot continue to raise interest rates in 2016. On CNBC today, Grant explained his reasoning for why the Fed will regret raising rates in December and reverse its course of action: It seems to me that the Fed is more likely to go to zero […]

Demolishing the “Deregulation Caused the Financial Crisis” Myth

Hindsight is supposed to be 20-20, but for some people it seems like it’s blind. We’re approaching a decade since the housing bubble burst, plunging the US economy into the worst crisis since the great depression. Still, defenders of big government and central planning continue efforts to sell the myth that the meltdown was caused […]

Echoes of 1776: Is a Monetary Revolution Coming?

This article was written by Stefan Gleason and originally published at the Tenth Amendment Center. Find it here. Is America on the cusp of a revolution that will usher in a new monetary order? The lessons of history tell us that no fiat currency retains its value for long or lasts forever. And as Shakespeare […]

Ron Paul’s Economic Myth Busters: Inflation & Capital Creation (Video)

Dr. Ron Paul interviewed Chris Rossini, regular contributor to LewRockwell.com and author of Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve. Together, they debunked some common American myths, including the real source of inflation, US foreign policy against radical Islam, and the importance of real savings and capital in an […]

Gold Is On Sale in US Dollars Compared to Other Currencies (Video)

Rob McEwen provided Kitco with an insider’s view on the mining industry and physical gold investment. McEwen was the founder and former CEO of Goldcorp, the world’s fourth largest mining company, so his insights into precious metals should not be taken lightly. McEwen had 3 very important observations for investors: 1. If prices remain this […]

The Classical Gold Standard: Debunking Leftist Propaganda (Audio)

In a new podcast, Tom Woods tears apart an article from the liberal website Think Progress in which an amateur economist attacks the gold standard. Joseph Salerno (Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute) and Jeffrey Herbener (Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics) joined Woods to counter the mainstream misconceptions of the […]

Europe’s Largest Gold Dealer Targets Asian Demand & $1,500 Gold Price (Video)

The CEO of Degussa Golchandel, the largest precious metals bullion dealer in Europe, explained why he disagrees with the mainstream market sentiment concerning the price of gold. Rather than dropping to $1,000 an ounce, Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Rossbach expects a $1,500 price point in the near future. He has three core reasons for this analysis: speculative investors […]

Bernanke’s Defense of Fed Monetary Policy Is Utter Nonsense (Video)

Mainstream economists continue to defend and even praise Ben Bernanke’s response to the 2008 financial crisis. But as it becomes more and more obvious that the United States economy never fundamentally recovered from the Great Recession, savvier analysts are speaking up. On Bloomberg TV, David Stockman lambasted Bernanke for flooding the markets with zero-cost money, […]

We’re in the Eye of Gigantic Financial Hurricane (Video)

Doug Casey spoke with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog. Just like Jim Rickards, Jim Grant, and Dr. Ron Paul, Casey believes we’re in the middle of a cataclysmic era of central bank intervention that will result in an unprecedented monetary collapse. In fact, Casey doesn’t think the United States ever got clear of the economic hurricane […]

The Fed Will Be the Last to Know We’re in a Recession (Video)

Jim Rickards agrees with Peter Schiff – the United States is already in a recession. However, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street economists won’t realize this until long after the fact, because the models they use to forecast are deeply flawed. Rickards predicts that the Fed will begin another round of monetary easing in March […]