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The last two years rents have been rising primarily due to supply and demand issues.

Between these two banking systems alone, you’ve got the makings of a global financial crisis at least on par with 2008. 

Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.

Is America DIRECTLY Supporting ISIS?

Once upon a time, we had strong, vigorously enforced laws that made a bank the safest place to store paper assets.

May the farce be with you...

I bet OPEC never factored into their analysis the lifting of the US Oil Exporting Ban in 2015 after being a non-starter for so many decades.

“Joseph urged the Pharaoh to set aside one fifth of the crop in the good times and store the grain to ease the famine in the bad times, because if he didn’t do that, the good times would be forgotten and all the people would remember was the bad times. This wouldn’t be politically good for the Pharaoh.”

Most people assume that prices move as a result of changes in the money supply. Instead, let’s look at the effect of changes in interest.

Imagine if Casinos told you in advance what the next card from the deck in a game of Blackjack was going to be?

Heavy duty...

This is what happens when the Fed’s academic-based nonsense collides with economic realities: perversions of capital that lead to massive bubbles and eventually even more massive crises.

How the SEC handed large banks a monopoly on short-term finance in 1998 by amending Rule 2a-7 and made the 2008 financial crisis inevitable

For a long time, we called for a big drop in the silver price. It stubbornly did not, or when it did drop it soon recovered. In the end, we were right and the silver bulls were wrong.