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On Markets, Manipulation, Regulation, and Nationalization

  By James Wesley Rawles | August 15, 2011 - 12:29 am |   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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On August 12th the newspaper headlines had some exceptionally bad news: Four European Nations to Curtail Short-Selling. This is an ill-advised panic move, following some massive losses on the European stock markets. (The French CAC 40 index is down 18.2 percent thusfar in August. Meanwhile, the DAX was down 15% … Continue reading →

The Nationalization of Wall Street, by John Ing

  By James Wesley Rawles | March 30, 2008 - 7:22 pm | , ,   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke once said: “By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars … Continue reading →

The Time Has Come To Fully Diversify: Retreating From Banks And From The Dollar Itself

  By James Wesley Rawles | October 21, 2013 - 1:25 am | ,   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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The recent political crisis over the delayed raising of the U.S. debt ceiling was just a precursor of a much larger crisis that will occur when interest rates inevitably rise. Once they do rise, it will become impossible for the Federal government to service its debt without massive monetization and … Continue reading →

Founders Sample Chapter — In The Footsteps of Josephus

  By James Wesley Rawles | June 1, 2012 - 1:57 am | ,   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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Author’s Notes: Founders is scheduled to be released in September, 2012. Please wait until the release date (“Book Bomb Day”) to order your copy. That same day, there will be simultaneous releases of the e-book and audio book editions. The cover art was created by Tony Mauro, Jr., who also … Continue reading →

Changes for 2011, The Taxman Cometh

  By James Wesley Rawles | July 26, 2010 - 9:55 pm | ,   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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Recent news articles about U.S. tax law changes have prompted dozens of SurvivalBlog readers to contact me with their concerns. Some of these e-mails asked me for advice on how to minimize the impact of these tax law changes. First let’s go over the changes in the tax law that … Continue reading →

Five Months Till Armageddon–A Dark View of the Future, by H.I.C.

  By James Wesley Rawles | May 23, 2009 - 7:49 pm |   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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I believe that America is facing a perfect storm…A rapidly cooling climate, a committed socialist president taking over during an economic crisis, and an unfinished war with fanatical murderous thugs. I am only 49 years old, but I think my Father’s generation faced a similar storm starting in 1929. I … Continue reading →

Economics and Investing:

  By James Wesley Rawles | February 19, 2009 - 8:08 pm |   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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Brett forwarded this item: Depositors turned away from Stanford banks Garth S. sent this New York Times news story link: Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down. Garth’s comment: “At least [in America] we don’t have debtors prison.” From Todd S.: Swift, steep downturn crisscrosses globe G.G. flagged this: Publishers … Continue reading →

Odds ‘n Sods:

  By James Wesley Rawles | January 19, 2009 - 10:05 pm |   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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Chuck sent this: Zimbabwe unveils Z$100 trillion banknote. (“Inflation was last reported at 231 million percent in July, but the Washington think-tank Cato Institute has estimated it now at 89.7 sextillion percent — a figure expressed with 21 zeroes.”)    o o o I just dropped by the Total Survivalist … Continue reading →

Even Chuck Schumer Thinks that We Might Be in Deep Schumer

  By James Wesley Rawles | September 22, 2008 - 7:46 pm | , , , , , ,   Print This Post   |   Email This Post   |
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A front page headline in The New York Times on Friday shouted: Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings. The article began: “It was a room full of people who rarely hold their tongues. But as the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, laid out the potentially devastating ramifications of the financial crisis … Continue reading →