Category: Economics

While the Fed has recently released an unprecedented amount of information on its activities, there is still much that remains unknown. Predictably, every push towards transparency has been fought tooth and nail. It took disclosure requirements enacted within the Dodd-Frank Act to get the Fed to provide data on its emergency lending facilities. It took […]

After a tough 2011, the junior resource market is turning and things are definitely looking up, Resource Opportunities Publisher Lawrence Roulston tells us in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. The mood of investors in the resource sector has turned positive, and based on the sentiment and interest shown at recent investment conferences, the […]

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Greg McCoach, publisher of The Mining Speculator, feels gold is ultimately headed above $6,000/oz and silver into the hundreds of dollars and those who aren’t paying attention now are missing their best opportunity to buy before the frenzy begins in earnest. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he spells out the reasons for […]

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall on the Problems of Central Bank ‘Debt Capitalism’ and the Promise of US-Style State Banking   The Daily Bell is pleased to present this interview with Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall Introduction: Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall served as president of The MacGruder Agency, Inc., a bank financial consulting firm, from 1979 through 1993. She was […]

18 Statistics That Prove That The Economy Has Not Improved Since Barack Obama Became President  Has the economy improved since Barack Obama became the president of the United States? Of course not. Despite what you may be hearing in the mainstream media, the truth is that when you compare the U.S. economy on the day […]

The dollar has been the world reserve currency since 1944 and the Keynesian Fabian socialist economic palaver in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They all should have paid more attention to Lord Keynes.   The situation is now gradually getting desperate, which is proven by America’s attempt to isolate Iran financially. An effort by Hillary Clinton to choke Iran’s […]

Economic fairness is impossible: an oxymoron. Since economic activities are inherently varied and often competitive and since one size doesn’t fit all and not everyone can win in a competition, no such thing as fairness is possible unless it simply means no one may be prevented from taking part. Certainly, however, the outcome will most […]

Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter … As the housing bubble entered its waning hours in 2006, top Federal Reserve officials marveled at the desperate antics of home builders seeking to lure buyers. The officials laughed about the cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses, and about efforts to make empty […]

Volatility in the markets isn’t going away any time soon and Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, expects 2012 to be a year of extreme swings. Niehuser draws parallels to the beginning of 2009, which was a short period of time that produced some very high returns. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Niehuser […]

Obama’s campaign manager calls the Tea Party a group of “extremists”, and it’s that same Tea Party that is demanding a balanced budget and bringing the size of government into one of sustainability.  One may draw the conclusion from  Obama’s 2012 campaign that Senator Marco Rubio is an “extremist” too. If not for the Tea […]