Tag Archives: Jim Rickards

full court press

Heading disaster off at the pass? Short term election fix, that effectively, with regard to the structural issues of technological deflation and unemployment, “kicks the can,” or rather the electoral not a pot to piss in, “down the road,” a … Continue reading

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gold: sierra madre time

Good news? Bad news? Or just another chapter in the power struggle between nations. Is this a kind of replay of 1933 when Roosevelt confiscated gold; all  private gold that was in the possession of American citizens had to be … Continue reading

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from whence she came

Intentional crisis that got out of hand? Power grab by Germany and will they serve as the patsy of choice again? It’s a shadowy sort of dance we are witnessing in Europe and for many it doesn’t make sense. The … Continue reading

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zombie banking: deposit at your risk

Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al.  warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of  zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading

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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde

Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading

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