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Gold Standard Nonsense Compelling Us To Repeat History

COMMENT: “The system is collapsing. It is not because of some derivatives bubble. It is not because of fiat. This is because of the debt gone wild”...

Australia’s New PM: Ex-CEO of Goldman Sachs

Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Bligh Turnbull was managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia (1997–2001) and a partner with Goldman Sachs and...

Market Talk – October 13, 2015

The import numbers released from China early this morning was the last thing the commodity based countries wanted to see, especially after having found some...

China Still Heading Lower

The latest economic news from China shows that, in dollar terms, imports collapsed 20.4% in September from a year earlier to $145.2bn. This is one of the sharpest...

IMF Warns That We Have a New Crisis Coming

  QUESTION: Marty; You mentioned that you met with a board member of the IMF. It certainly seems you are having a much larger impact than you may realize. The...

Belgium to Introduce 33% Tax on Investments

The Belgium government wants to introduce what they are calling the “speculation tax” that will impose a 33% tax on investments liquidated within 6...

Merkel’s Dream

QUESTION: What is going through Merkel’s mind with this immigration? Is she just insane? What is happening here in Germany is unbelievable. HS...

Market Talk – October 12, 2015

In Europe, despite the positive Asian market with the Shanghai Index exceeding 3% (on the back of weekend government vocal support), we had a lack luster session...

How to Convert ECM Dates

  Note: Because this was over .5 of a day, we refer to this target as September 30/October...

Austerity: Good or Bad?

QUESTION: Martin, The ‘Austerity’ argument seems a bit confusing. Surely,  “Austerity” means reducing the size of Government and is an...