Blog Feed: The Bottom Violation

No inflation? Really? Have You Been to the Grocery Store Lately?

Published on 2011-05-21 14:38:58

Your government would have you believe that prices — on the whole — declined for most of 2009, and have been increasing at only a snail’s pace since. The metric the government uses for determining this aggregate rate of change is th

Are We Now Entitled to Expensive Housing?

Published on 2011-05-11 15:21:49

The United States is a nation full of spoiled brats. If we can’t have what we want, we borrow it. And if we can’t borrow it, we force politicians to give it to us. Case in point: the housing market. It has become popular — among the

The Fallacy of Paper Money

Published on 2011-05-10 10:05:04

This is a great article from the Mises Institute today, regarding the failure of Iceland’s currency, why it happend, and how it will ultimately happen to all fiat currencies (including the almighty dollar). Here’s an excerpt: “As Ri

Gold or Silver? Hedging Against Inflation

Published on 2011-05-09 13:20:33

Inflationary price increases are not coming. They’re already here. The Fed wants you to believe that we are still experiencing falling prices, but the Fed also wants to tell you that food (commodities) and energy don’t count. The Fed is l

The Keynesian Solvency Standoff

Published on 2010-09-27 10:33:46

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” – John Maynard Keynes I wish I had ten dollars  for every market novitiate who had the temerity to enlighten me with the above quote in response to my proclamati

7 Deadliest Sins Causing The American Empire Collapse

Published on 2010-04-17 21:43:28

by Elisheva Wiriaatmadja 4 – 10 – 2010 Many people in America are still holding on to “hope and change” that the Obama administration would save them and the world from a devastating financial collapse. Gerald Celente has called out

The Will of the People, The Power of the States

Published on 2010-04-16 12:01:14

“I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” ̵

Using Technology to Start a Successful Business in (Spite of) a Depression

Published on 2010-04-12 13:28:22

Did you know that some of the most powerful entrepreneurial ideas in the lexicon of human knowledge arose from the ashes of economic catastrophe? It’s true. And the reason is a lot simpler than you think: when times get tough, unemployment incr

The Information Age and the End of the United States of America

Published on 2010-04-05 14:20:26

You are losing your rights. I know you probably don’t believe it; you’ve heard it all before, and yet everything has turned out okay, hasn’t it? Sure! If “okay” means a failing currency, hyperinflation, a systematic dest

Discipline – Audio Book – Chapter 3 – Jefferson

Published on 2010-03-31 12:41:48

This is the third chapter – Jefferson – in the (somewhat) weekly audio book series Discipline, read by the author, Paco Ahlgren. Click the link below to listen: Chapter 3 – Jefferson – Discipline by Paco Ahlgren.mp3 —- C