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Jeffrey Tucker Talks Free Markets With RT

Adam Sharp — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:11 +0000

In the clip below, Austrian economist Jeffrey Tucker, founder of Laissez Faire books, talks with Russia Today’s Lauren Lyster. A number of free-market related topics are discussed, including: central banks, minimum wages, and interest rates. Worth a watch:

Ron Paul’s Predictions From 2002

Adam Sharp — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:37:33 +0000

Not all are right (yet, anyway). But many have come true, such as “The U.S. with Tony Blair as chief cheerleader, will attack Iraq.” Lots of insight on gold & currencies too:

Jim Rogers’ Outlook For 2012 & Beyond

Adam Sharp — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:38:17 +0000

Nice long interview with Jim Rogers. Enjoy:

TL;DW:

Explains why he moved to Singapore (likes China, but Bejing & Shanghai too polluted)
He’s short stocks “across the world”
Long commodities
Long gold, silver
Crisis still imminent, better to take the hit now

Joe Rogan and the War Pigs

Adam Sharp — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:56:05 +0000

Joe Rogan made an entertaining appearance on Leno tonight, talking politics & smack. While doing some e-stalking, I found this: fan video (not made by him, tho he did tweet about it). Interesting independent political perspective.

Commodity Index up 252% in last 10Y. Hence… Deflation?

Adam Sharp — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:33:48 +0000

A broad index of commodities, as tracked by IndexMundi.com (great site), is up 252% in the last 10 years.

So when an influential idiot like Christina Romer says, “the spectre of inflation is quickly fading”, as she did on Bloomberg TV recently, it makes one wonder. What is the time period these people are looking at? A week? A month? Only ones when commodities are down?

Stop to consider the fact that these price increases have occurred despite stagnant wages (the Keynesian’s preferred deflation argument being that inflation cannot occur without matching wage hikes) AND crawling money-velocity since the crunch. No matter what the Fed does, it is screwed going forward.

Tighten? Raise rates. Crush increasingly credit-dependent zombie economy (and banks, for some reason the Fed seems to favor the institutions who own it)
Expand lending? Massive inflation, continuation of zombie economy.
Keep lending slow, monetize debt. Hyperstagflation, ugly.

If I had my pick, I would of course go #1. Every time. But that’s not likely to be the case (for a while yet).

And regarding investment choices today, they’re a bit like a school cafeteria; sh1tty choices, but clear winners. I am looking to buy more precious metals and foreign bonds (pizza & french fries).

Fleckenstein: End The Fed, Get It Over With

Adam Sharp — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:50:47 +0000

Bill Fleckenstein of Fleckenstein Capital talks to Bloomberg about the Fed, precious metals, and the difficulty of shorting this market (and being long).

Jim Grant: Inflation Will Hit Suddenly

Adam Sharp — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:55:33 +0000

Not a new video, but one worth watching if you haven’t yet. Mr. Grant, of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, is one of the sharpest independent economists around. Inflation hitting suddenly quote at 16:20 (hat tip reader brian).

Weimar Germany may be a bit of an extreme example to use, but it does demonstrate the point rather well … (note that the x-axis is in months, not years).

More Jim Rogers: ECB Will Likely Start Printing

Adam Sharp — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:17:09 +0000

Another great interview with Jim Rogers, one of the few truth-tellers who continues to get MSM air time. Here he talks with Larry Kudlow, who brings up an important issue — whether the EU will eventually follow the Federal Reserve in their currency devaluation strategy. Other topics discussed: Fed lies, M2 money supply exploding, looming (potentially disastrous) global inflation.

I took advantage of the recent dip in silver prices, bought more. There are few things I want to own today more than gold & silver bullion. Global printing just getting ramped up. Bad as things are today, I believe this is the calm before the storm.

h/t Robert Wenzel.

Jim Rogers on the Latest US-China Trade War Spat

Adam Sharp — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:33:30 +0000

U.S. politicians from both sides of the aisle are lining up to support possible trade sanctions and tariffs on China. Apparently the enthralled ignorami we call our “representatives” are reacting to China’s currency manipulation (as if Tim G. & the gang are helpless bystanders in the global currency wars).

Rogers warns against such economic blunders, noting “We had a trade war in the 1930′s, it led to the Great Depression.”

Shortly after that bludgeoning remark, Rogers adds “We already have small signs of trade wars breaking out in Brazil, France, other places, now America. This could be very dangerous in the end.”

Use the search function (top-right) to find more Jim Rogers stuff. Lots of videos in the archive from this wise investor.

Check It:

1) Jim Rogers Supports Ron Paul
2) Ron Paul 2012 Plug - Shameless

Jesse’s Weekly Gold & Silver Charts

Jesse — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:05:02 +0000

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

Gold had another up day with stocks, as it was ‘risk on’ with renewed hopes for fresh infusions of liquidity as we saw from the Bank of England.

I tended to view this action as more ‘technical’ than fundamental.

I don’t like the headline correlation between stocks and the metals like gold and silver which would normally function as a safe haven in a time of increased risk.

Notice the new lines of broad support and resistance levels on the gold chart. We have not yet broken to the upside, so caution is advised.

Guest post from Jesse’s Cafe, Oct 6 2011. Re-published with permission. Visit Jesse’s blog here.