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Ron Paul Podcast: The Fed’s New Boss Thinks She Can Spot Bubbles
After eight years as head of the Fed, Ben Bernanke is out and Janet Yellen is in. Is Ben Bernanke getting out just before the consequences of his policies hit home, much as when Alan Greenspan left...
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The Best of Ron Paul on Money and Markets so Far This Year
Each week, libertarian and former Congressman Ron Paul takes the time to talk with Money and Markets’ Charles Goyette on subjects ranging from our schools to the NSA and the Fed. What follows are some...
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Our Loss of Liberties in a Topsy-Turvy America
You’re a householder. The downstairs servants are stealing the silverware. The upstairs servants refuse to tell you about it. But they do insist on their right to shuffle through the papers on your...
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Ron Paul Podcast: U.S. Is ‘Stirring the Pot’ in Ukraine
Ron Paul Podcast: U.S. Is ‘Stirring the Pot’ in Ukraine The NSA isn’t the only one snooping on phone calls. A U.S. State Department official has been caught on tape secretly trying to micromanage...
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What is THE fastest growing industry?
The answer: Technology! It is one of the last remaining outposts of the free economy. That is why tech megatrends continue to be a powerful and dynamic source of wonders that bless our lives with...
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GOLD: More than meets the eye!
I just saw a report speculating that gold’s performance this year would be “data dependent,” specifically alluding to quantitative easing and the pace of tapering. Data is always important, but I’m...
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U.S. Sanctions Threatening Your Portfolio!
You may not have gotten a private briefing about the risks that the U.S. sanctions on Russia could have to your portfolio. But some hedge fund and mutual fund managers did. They received private...
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Another Washington Currency Scheme? It’s Enough to Make You Cry
There seems to be no shortage of bad ideas in Washington. They usually involve an unspecified cost to the people at large to provide an undisclosed benefit for the influential and well-connected. But...
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Dropping Delusions: Americans Are Growing Poorer
The abject failure of the policies pursued by the fiscal and monetary authorities for the past seven-and-a-half years keeps getting shoved in our faces. The news of the economy’s contraction by 1...
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The Questions That Weren’t Answered
For those who remember the “stagflation decade” of the 1970s, there is something eerily familiar about the news of slipping U.S. economic growth and the Consumer Price Index climbing 0.4 percent in...
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Notes for the Fourth of July
For many years, I made it a practice each Fourth of July to honor the ideal of America and the people who brought it forth by studying some of the founding period’s history or by reading biographies...
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The 1970s Redux
The similarity of today’s geopolitical dynamics and those of the 1970s is starting to get the attention it deserves. Some of the parallels are obvious. The front page of Monday’s Wall Street Journal...
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Discouraging Words
I want to share with you the most discouraging words I have read lately. A matter-of-fact statement that demands consideration. Just an anonymous observation that I had to conclude was depressingly...
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The Dollar Anniversary
Much has been made of this week’s 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency. But while politicians come and go, it is their policies that live after them. Friday is another...
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Under-saved and Under-invested
Ten thousand Americans become eligible for retirement benefits every day. It is the aging of the baby-boom generation, a demographic bulge so outsized that someone once described it as looking like a...
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The ECB, NATO and Russia-Ukraine
The week just gets more interesting with every passing day, with a lot happening in these final two days that could help determine the direction of the markets. We’re looking at European Central Bank...
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Bernanke’s Helicopter, and a Note About 9/11
You won’t believe the idea that America’s quintessential foreign policy establishment organ is floating now. Or maybe you will. Foreign Affairs is the journal of the Council of Foreign Relations, the...
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Facing Up to the Global Slowdown
It is impossible to say today whether the effects of the rolling global slowdown have all been priced into the gold market. But it doesn’t look like it. Not even close. There is talk in some corners...
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Lies, Lies and More (Government) Lies
They are at it again. Lying to us about the deficit, that is. The polls all say that the American people have grown far more skeptical about their government. It’s a good thing. They are lying to us...
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The Binge, the Bartender and the Austrian Hangover Theory
That was quite a binge, quantitative easing was. A bender that went on for years. Now comes the hangover. Just like the Austrian school economists said. In fact, the reason the Austrian Business Cycle...
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