Category: Economics & Investing

Texas State Gold Depository Another Step Closer To Reality. Excerpt: “The creation of a state gold depository in Texas represents a power shift away from the federal government to the state, and it provides a blueprint that could ultimately end the Fed.” – Submitted by H.L. o o o The Federal Reserve’s Cycle of Monetary Insanity (and Treason) Excerpt: “The Federal Reserve is a collection of malicious, serial liars, engaging in economic treason.” o o o Vancouver Housing Market Implodes: Average Home Price Plunges 20% In 1 Month – “The Market Is Devastated” – H.L. o o o One Simple …

Maloney Calls It: Recession Here Now o o o Oil Prices Continue To Rise On Hollow Saudi Comments. Saudi rhetoric has been an integral part of the move in oil prices over the last days, but most of this has been panic buying with total disregard to fundamentals o o o World stock markets climb on labor data, oil gains o o o Inflation: It’s a Wealth Redistribution Scheme o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

World seeing ‘greatest monetary policy experiment in history’. Excerpt: “The six months under review have seen central bankers continuing what is surely the greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world. We are therefore in uncharted waters and it is impossible to predict the unintended consequences of very low interest rates, with some 30 percent of global government debt at negative yields, combined with quantitative easing on a massive scale,” – Link sent in by P.S. o o o Silver Takes A Dip On Hawkish Fed Meeting Minutes o o o Is The Oil Production Efficiency Boom …

U.S. ‘Debt Held by Public’ Tops $14,000,000,000,000; Up 122% Under Obama – B.B. o o o Retirees Need $130,000 Just to Cover Health Care, Study Finds o o o Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else o o o Central Banks Are Now On The Cusp Of Losing Control o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Wealth Tax Looms As Greeks Forced To Declare All ‘Assets’ To Tax Authority – H.L. o o o How Long Can Economic Reality Be Ignored? – S.B. o o o Lack of shipping demand sends big ships to scrap heap – P.S. o o o 5 Reasons Why Austrian Economics Is Better than the Mainstream o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

‘Dead’ mall has hardly changed since the 1980s- another dead Mall o o o The Fallacy of the ‘Third Way’ o o o Japan’s economy is barely growing (Note: autostart video) o o o Why this U.S. market rally gives investors good reason to be cautious o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Manipulation: The Phony Job Recovery o o o BIS Intervenes In The Gold Market To Aid Battered Gold Shorts! o o o Wall St. banks ask Fed for five more years to comply with Volcker rule o o o JPMorgan to Liquidate Japan Fund After ‘Significant’ Redemptions o o o North American Life Insurers “Accidentally” Pile Up Massive Distressed Debt Holdings o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Core Retail Sales Tumble Most Since January – H.L. o o o The Curious Timing of Current Events – It’s All Connected – Interview with Bix Weir o o o The Real Reason Brazil Can Still Be “the Country of the Future” o o o Central Banks Are Choking Productivity o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Billionaires are holding $1.7 trillion in cash o o o The Coming Breakdown Of U.S. & Global Markets Explained… What Most Analysts Miss o o o U.S. farmland values drop. The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed a widespread drop in farmland values with the highest losses in the Northern Plains. – W.W. o o o Gold Price Surge Seen Cutting India’s Demand This Year, World Gold Council Says o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Marc Faber Issues A Stunning Warning That A Gigantic 50 Percent Stock Market Crash Could Be Coming – B.B. o o o BOJ review likely to defend massive stimulus program – sources o o o In recovering housing market, the starter home remains elusive o o o Venezuela Has But One Choice: Capitalism or Chaos o o o China Food Inflation Looms As Ag Output Set To Plunge Most In 50 Years Amid Historic ‘La Nina’ – H.L. o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

The worst place in the world to bank o o o Social Security’s looming $32 trillion shortfall – B.B. o o o 30 Years After The Disaster: Ukraine Plans Huge Solar Farm In Chernobyl – Perhaps the most well-known site of a nuclear disaster in the world, Chernobyl is now the location for an ambitious solar project. o o o The Minimum Wage: Taking Away the Right to Work o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Wake Up And Smell The Bull Trap! o o o The Consequences Of Big Oil’s Exploding Debt. Big oil has seen its debt load increase tenfold since 2008 as a result of high spending and unstable earnings. o o o Stocks a Screaming Buy in Fed Model That May Never Prove Right o o o The Seven-Year Short o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

Will the Bubble Pop Even if the Fed Never Raises Rates? “There is no ready-made answer in Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT) to the multi-trillion dollar question now looming over the global economy and markets.” o o o Bond Market’s Big Illusion Revealed as U.S. Yields Turn Negative o o o Gold Price $2,150 Or Bust o o o America added 255,000 jobs in July, but unemployment rate unchanged o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.

IRS Increases ‘Marriage Penalty,’ Unmarried Cohabitants To Get Twice The Mortgage Interest Deduction – B.B. o o o Deflation Is Always Good for the Economy o o o A Shocking Story About How One Man Lost $83 Million, Plus China, Gold And U.S. Dollar o o o No End Seen in Global Demand for U.S. Credit: BlackRock’s Rieder o o o SurvivalBlog and its editors are not paid investment counselors or advisers. Please see our Provisos page for details.