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by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute Lee esto en Español Money supply growth rose slightly in November, rising above October’s twenty-one-month low. Even with November’s rise, though, money supply growth remains far below the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. During thirteen months between April 2020 and April 2021, money supply growth in the United […]
by Niccolo Conte via Visual Capitalist The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2022 Edition) For investors, 2021 was a year in which nearly every asset class finished in the green, with commodities providing some of the best returns. The S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) was the third best-performing asset class in 2021, returning 37.1% […]
by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Evidence suggests plastic recycling efforts can have only a minor impact even under the best of circumstances, since plastic can, at best, be recycled once, due to degradation Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste, and 91% of it has never been recycled Many recycling […]
by Tho Bishop via Mises Institute Price inflation is the highest its been since 1982. Real wages are plummeting. Joe Biden’s approval ratings are now on par with George W. Bush’s after both the Iraq War, the financial crisis, and eight years of Jon Stewart. This is with the benefit of Kim family–level devotion from the […]
by Alastair Crooke via Strategic Culture Foundation The corollary to the collapse of the technocratic initiative to liquify the over-leveraged economy might well be recession, Alastair Crooke writes. Three years ago, I said to an American Professor from the US Army War College in Washington, in respect to the campaign to return American lost Blue […]
by Egon von Greyerz via Gold Switzerland Cervantes famous classic novel Don Quixote can in simple terms be described as a fight for liberty and freedom against oppression and against the state. This book is from 1605 and considered to be one of the best books ever written. In the midst of market madness, risk […]
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises Institute The global recovery has slowed down significantly since the peak of the reopening effect in June 2021. What many expected would be a multiyear cycle of above-trend growth is proving to be a more modest bounce. Furthermore, according to Bloomberg Economics, the global economy will likely grow in the […]
by Matthew Piepenburg via Gold Switzerland Below, we look at the converging market forces, policies and math which portend a re-thinking of American Exceptionalism for 2022. The Fed’s REAL Mandate As expected, the Fed is an essential starting theme in any conversation of this nature. Officially, the Fed has two primary mandates: 1) containing inflation […]
by Alex J. Pollock via Mises Institute Runaway house price inflation continues to characterize the U.S. market. House prices across the country rose 15.8% on average in October 2021 from the year before. U.S. house prices are far over their 2006 Bubble peak, and remain over the Bubble peak even after adjustment for consumer price […]
by Laurence M. Vance via Mises Institute The grossly misnamed Equality Act is a government attack on the rights of private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. According to the official summary of bill (H.R.5): This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute Lee esto en Español A certain meme has become popular among advocates of both gold and cryptocurrencies. This is the “Fix the money, fix the world” meme. This slogan is based on the idea that by switching to some commodity money—be it crypto or metal—and abandoning fiat currency, the […]
by Jeff Thomas via International Man Today, more than at any time previously, Westerners are justifying a move toward collectivist thinking with the phrase, “Capitalism has failed.” In response to this, conservative thinkers offer a knee-jerk reaction that collectivism has also had a dismal record of performance. Neither group tends to gain any ground with […]
by Niccolo Conte via Visual Capitalist How Every Market Performed in 2021 After the roller coaster of volatility in 2020, the majority of asset classes in 2021 saw positive returns as the world reopened for business. The Federal Reserve’s accommodative monetary policy, supply chain struggles, and high demand for fuels and raw materials for the […]
by Henry Hazlitt via Mises Institute Lee esto en Español Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, […]
by Mises Institute First, we must define inflation: it is the increase in the quantity of money, currency, and credit. It is not an increase in prices. Changes in the general price level is the consequence of a combination in changes of the quantity of deposit currency and changes in the level of the public’s […]