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There Is No Way the Fed Will Raise Rates Significantly Today (Video)

Marc Faber spoke with Bloomberg TV this morning to explain why he thinks the Federal Reserve will take no significant steps towards raising interest rates when its meeting concludes today. Like Peter Schiff, Faber predicts the Fed will not commit to any steady schedule of rate hike increases and that a fourth round of quantitative […]

The Fed Is Waging Jihad Against Savers and Retirees (Video)

David Stockman, former Budget Director under President Reagan, appeared on Fox Business to warn that the United States faces a financial “time bomb” of $19 trillion of ballooning debt. This debt load will eventually become unsustainable when interest rates rise, which is an inevitability. Stockman points to the same historical data as Alan Greenspan – interest […]

Perception Is the New Truth: Physical vs. Paper Gold (Video)

Bloomberg Business interviewed Peter Hambro, Chairman and Co-Founder of Petropavlovsk – one of the largest gold mining companies in Russia. Hambro presented physical gold to the Bloomberg anchors, who seemed genuinely dubious as to its value, insisting that gold is for “speculators.” Hambro clarified that “paper gold” is for speculators, and he believes the Comex futures […]

US Mint Silver Shortage – An Inside Look (Audio)

SilverDoctors.com interviewed Tom Power, the CEO of Sunshine Minting. Sunshine is one of the biggest suppliers of silver blanks to the United States Mint, which the Mint uses to strike the American Silver Eagle coins. Sunshine also also supplies gold and silver blanks to producers around the world, and has its own line of very […]

Gold Is Money, Not a Commodity; If You Want Money, Have Some Gold (Video)

Jim Rickards defended holding 10% of your portfolio in gold on Fox Business this week. Dagen McDowell aggressively challenged his argument that gold is the equivalent of an insurance policy for your wealth, but Rickards pointed to thousands of years of history supporting his investment strategy. Rickards also stuck with his forecast for the gold […]

Ron Paul’s 80th Birthday Speech: The Future of Liberty & American Prosperity (Audio)

Dr. Ron Paul turned 80 years old last week, and the Mises Institute threw a birthday party for him. Tom Woods and Judge Napolitano introduced Dr. Paul with stirring speeches, reminding us of how pivotal Ron Paul has been to the libertarian and free-market movements. Dr. Paul delivered a resounding inspirational talk directed at those […]

All Global Prices Are Artificial Thanks to Central Banks (Video)

Jim Grant appeared on CNBC this morning with an explanation of the underlying reason why United States stocks just plummeted. His core message is that capitalism requires both success and failure. When central bank monetary policy corrupts pricing as thoroughly as it currently has, it ruins the market’s ability to withstand healthy business failures. Grant […]

Don’t Trade Gold – Hold It as an Insurance Policy (Video)

Marc Faber explained his gold investment philosophy to CNBC. Like Peter Schiff, Faber is a contrarian who doesn’t buy into the consensus view that the United States dollar is going to remain a strong currency. While the price of gold in Chinese yuan has risen steeply recently, Faber still believes it is a great time […]

The “Logic” Behind the War on Cash (Audio)

Earlier this year, we wrote about the latest developments in the international “war on cash.” Some central bankers have gone so far as to suggest that cash be eliminated entirely. In his latest podcast, Tom Woods and Charles Hugh Smith talk about why central authorities want to abolish cash and the role cash plays in […]

Doug Casey: Next Crisis Will Be Worse than 1930s (Video)

Investment adviser Doug Casey recently appeared on Reason TV to discuss the current state of the US economy. He did not paint a rosy picture, saying that things are “building up to a catastrophe of historic proportions.” Doug made some stark comparisons between the current situations in American and conditions leading up to crises in […]