We are thrilled to announce that we will be bringing Paul Hellyer’s The Money Mafia to audiobook format as soon as September 2016. Mr. Hellyer will be joining me in a podcast around that time, until then here’s the speech he delivered in Toronto when The Money Mafia was released. The video was produced by modernknowledge.ca. As Hellyer notes: “We the people own the patent to create ‘money’. We have licensed private individuals to do...
Read More“Sooner or later, everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Gordon Brown, back when he was the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, distinguished himself by selling off approximately one-half of Great Britain’s gold reserves at what turned out to be a near-bottom at the end of the secular bear market in gold which lasted from 1980 to 2000-ish.…
Read MoreIt sends a chill down your spine when you hear the news that somebody you had just met at a conference a few months ago, a like minded individual representing a global movement you are in complete alignment with, was just arrested on federal money laundering charges,
The crime? Charlie Shrem, CEO of Bitinstant and Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation allegedly sold bitcoins to Silk Road users and then they used them to buy illicit drugs.…
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We live in a financial Bizarro World
Yesterday was bemoaned as one of the worst stock market sell-offs in some time, and even worse, the news keeps getting better.
“Solid jobs data weighs on US markets”
laments Associated Press. “Another largely solid U.S. jobs report kept a lid on markets Friday by keeping investors on alert for a possible reduction in the Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus.”…
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The Privateer is Calling it Quits
[I’m stunned and saddened, but he has to do what’s right for himself. William Buckler is a huge inspiration to me, a hero of free markets and REAL capitalism and I hope he re-emerges sooner than later. We need him. ]
Dear Mark Jeftovic,
Please read this letter, it is important.…
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