Doug Casey: The rise of BlackRock and the creep to Fascism in the US
The Fed’s money printing has helped to pump up BlackRock’s asset portfolio, which the company uses to advance its “Environmental, Social and Governance” political agenda.
The Fed’s money printing has helped to pump up BlackRock’s asset portfolio, which the company uses to advance its “Environmental, Social and Governance” political agenda.
Many concerns are zinging through the zeitgeist these late days of the republic. You are correct to be anxious about them. Just understand that the
by Mark Nestmann: Over the years, we haven’t shied away from highlighting the threat to our privacy that our hyper-connected world poses. Whether it’s Big
Just a couple of weeks ago the financial world’s biggest worry was the plunging price of oil. Supply was up, stockpiles were building and speculation
Rick Rule: The macro environment is pretty constructive for gold … Kyle Bass: China’s house is on fire; if you have money invested in Asia
One of history’s hard lessons is that collapsing financial systems beget authoritarian politics. Today’s world, alas, is following this script, as rising debts lead to
Two points about today’s political economy – and then a prediction involving Illinois: Point One: What’s coming is poetic justice for the aristocracy. The wave
Among all the many things governments do that seem to violate the Constitution — not to mention common sense and basic fairness – asset forfeiture
With the election of Donald Trump, the US right let its id off the leash. Now pretty much everything conservatives have thought but not said
President Trump will soon nominate his second Supreme Court justice. The first, Neil Gorsuch, has so perfectly replaced the late Antonin Scalia that it’s safe
After the recent deluge of videos showing police abusing and sometimes flat-out murdering more-or-less innocent citizens, the willingness of a growing number of cities to
In a fiat currency system, perception is, by definition, everything. Paper money has no intrinsic value. So the people saving it and accepting it in
In Charles Mann’s 1491, about the (surprisingly big and diverse) cultures that existed in the Americas before the arrival of smallpox, he offers this: “The
Our transition from more-or-less free country to police state is accelerating. The NSA’s Utah data mining facility, ever-tighter restrictions on offshore accounts, the Internet “kill
Capital, like information, wants to be free. The idea that it should be limited to one country has always struck rich people as silly, which
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