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The Secret History Of The Banking Crisis

By silveristhenew | Published August 9, 2017

Authored by Adam Tooze via ProspectMagazine.co.uk, Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the story of the secretive deals between banks that kept the show on the road. How long can the system be propped up for? It is a decade since the first tremors of what would become the Great Financial Crisis began to […]

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Actions Have Consequences! Ask Venezuela

By silveristhenew | Published June 9, 2017

Authored by Bill Bonner via InternationalMan.com, Let’s turn to an economy getting doomier by the day: Venezuela. Actions have consequences. In public policy, it is impossible to say what the consequences will be. There are too many delusions and too much smoke. Take a policy said to eradicate city rats. Its real purpose is to […]

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What Nassim Taleb Can Teach Us

By silveristhenew | Published May 2, 2017

Authored by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute, Nassim Nicholas Taleb does not suffer fools gladly. Author of several books including The Black Swan and Antifragile, Taleb is known for his incendiary personality almost as much as his brilliant work in probability theory. Readers of his very active Medium page will experience a formidable mind […]

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Do Wars Help or HURT the Economy?

By silveristhenew | Published March 22, 2017

Does Defense Spending Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs … Or Is It BAD for the Economy? Preface: Trump wants to drastically increase military spending.  At the same time, France, China, Japan and other countries are ramping up their military spending. An understanding of the effect on the economy is therefore timely. A number of […]

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Nobel Prize Winner Tells Davos’ Elite, US Should “Get Rid Of Currency”

By silveristhenew | Published January 19, 2017

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In the mid-1800s at a time when the United Kingdom was still the dominant superpower in the world, an English scientist named Francis Galton wrote a series of papers arguing for the selective breeding of human beings. Galton’s ideas became known as eugenics. The concept was that genius and […]

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Weekend Reading: Anticipation

By silveristhenew | Published January 13, 2017

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the past couple of weeks, the market has continued to remain overbought, extended and exuberant on “hopes” that Trump’s policies will be the ointment to cure the economy’s ills. As noted yesterday, exuberance has exploded in everything from consumer to investor to business optimism. The explosion of optimism […]

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Weekend Reading: Stuck In The Middle – Again

By silveristhenew | Published October 28, 2016

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I have written previously about being stuck in a trading range. “Over the past couple of months, we have continued to drift from one economic report, or Central Bank meeting, to the next. Each report and meeting have continued to leave market participants confused as to what is going […]

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Why One Hedge Fund Is Once Again Preparing For The End Of The Euro

By silveristhenew | Published September 10, 2016

Our friends at Fasanara Capital have released a new report, which in keeping with the Mayfair fund’s recent trend of gloomy predictions, has looked beyond the current set of adverse socioeconomic development jarring Europe, and looks forward to the “last act of the Euro”, explaining why “whatever it takes” is now over, and why the […]

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Weekend Reading: Willful Blindness

By silveristhenew | Published August 12, 2016

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Despite deteriorating economic data, the market continues to cling to recent levels of over overbought, overextended and low reward/risk outcomes.   The problem for individual investors is the “trap” that is currently being laid between the appearance of strong market dynamics against the backdrop of weak economic and market […]

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“The British Woke Up!” Paul Craig Roberts Asks “Can The Americans?”

By silveristhenew | Published June 29, 2016

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, In our time to be truthful is to be provocative. To write provocatively leaves little room for error or mistatement as today’s euphemism terms it. I could shill for the establishment and be wrong 98% of the time and nothing ever would be said about it. But there is no […]

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