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Bubble Watch: The Everything Bubble is Riskier and Less Liquid Than Housing

By silveristhenew | Published December 4, 2017

As we keep emphasizing, the world is in an Everything Bubble. In truth, it is a bubble in sovereign bonds, created by Central Banks attempting to corner these markets via ZIRP and QE. However, because sovereign bonds are the bedrock for the current fiat financial system, if they go into a bubble, EVERYTHING goes into […]

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The Saudi System And Why Its Change May Fail

By silveristhenew | Published November 22, 2017

Via Moon Of Alabama blog, The Saudi clown prince Mohammad Bin Salman is an impulsive tyrant. But what accounts for his urge to purge the country of any potential competing power center? Why does he run a such an activist foreign policy? The answer might be Iran. Not Iran the country, but Iran the system. […]

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The Economist Went There – Shockingly Un-PC Study Shows Whites Work Hardest, Longest

By silveristhenew | Published November 20, 2017

A trio of labor economists suggest that effort at work is correlated with race… As The Economist writes, given the long history of making racial slurs about the efforts of some workers, any study casting black and Hispanic men as lazier than whites and Asians is sure to court controversy. But, a provocative working paper […]

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Baltimore’s Weekend ‘Cease-Fire’ Shattered As Off-Duty Cop Gunned Down

By silveristhenew | Published November 5, 2017

Baltimore’s second attempt at a 72-hour ‘cease-fire’ was cut short for the second time this year after an off-duty Washington police officer was killed and a women wounded on Saturday. According to The Baltimore Sun homicide data base, Sgt. Tony Mason Jr.,40, was shot and killed on the upper west side at 2800 Elgin Avenue. Reports […]

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God is Dead

By silveristhenew | Published September 29, 2017

From the Slope of Hope blog: That’s something I’ve got in common with Private Pyle: he wants to be different. For whatever reason, I’m a contrarian to the core. Indeed, one of the appeals of messing around with personal computers back in 1980 was that practically nobody else was doing it (in case you hadn’t […]

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Has Google Become A Major Threat To Democracy In America?

By silveristhenew | Published August 31, 2017

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.”   Wu was […]

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Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards

By silveristhenew | Published August 30, 2017

Gold Reset To $10,000/oz Coming “By January 1, 2018” – Rickards – Trump could be planning a radical “reboot” of the U.S. dollar– Currency reboot will see leading nations devalue their currencies against gold– New gold price would be nearly 8 times higher at $10,000/oz– Price based on mass exit of foreign governments and investors from […]

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Bannon: “At The White House, I Had Influence. At Breitbart, I Have Power”

By silveristhenew | Published August 25, 2017

A week after declaring that he is “going to war” to try and save President Donald Trump’s agenda from being co-opted by Trump’s more moderate advisors, "Bannon the Barbarian" – who returned to his post as executive chairman of Breitbart almost immediately after leaving the administration – laid into his political enemies while fleshing out […]

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America’s Inner Cities Are In Chaos… Just Look At Baltimore & Chicago

By silveristhenew | Published August 23, 2017

Via StockBoardAsset.com, America’s real war zone is not in Afghanistan or on the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It’s actually in our inner cities where this forgotten war decades old is plagued with out of control homicides and an opioid crisis tearing America apart at the seams. The root cause of this chaos is from with-in and […]

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The Economist Goes There (Again)

By silveristhenew | Published August 17, 2017

After a few months off from lambasting President Trump on the cover, Economist publisher, Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, has decided now is the time to go after him again…   As a reminder, it was just February when The Economist turned the fearmongery amplifier to '11' in its latest op-ed describing the 'insurgency in The […]

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