Category: Economics

  • If You Can’t Export It, You Don’t Own It.

    Export your 401k/ IRA – Trade Risk for Security Offshore Presently, the US has created a level of debt that exceeds anything the world has ever seen. Extreme debt in 1929 resulted in a market crash. The present level of debt is far higher than in 1929. The wise investor will, of course, diversify, assuring…

  • Anyone Can Win In A Difficult World Given The Right Tools

    Boston, MA, July 14, 2016 – Inept managers, poor communications, mismatched core skills and expectations, boss/subordinate disconnects: there are millions of reasons to be unhappy on the job. Now, award-winning author Beverly Flaxington gives readers solid, simple strategies for enjoying and succeeding in their business and personal lives in her books, Self-Talk for a Calmer…

  • Wealth and Families – Book

    Wealth and Families traces its roots to a family member’s request that Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School professor emeritus, share what he has learned from experience about investing, wealth, and life. Wealth. It’s a nice problem to have, but the financial uncertainty inherent in today’s world means that no one can afford not to think…

  • Older Americans Month: May 2016

    U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Older Americans Month: May 2016 President Kennedy first celebrated older Americans by designating May 1963 as Senior Citizens Month. After a meeting with the National Council of Senior Citizens, Kennedy encouraged all Americans to pay tribute to older people across the country. Every President since has issued a formal proclamation…

  • April is Financial Literacy Month

    TheMoneyShelf.com Launches New Online Bookseller Dedicated to Expanding Financial Literacy [box type=”tick” style=”rounded” border=”full”]TheMoneyShelf.com helps consumers self-educate on both personal finance issues and everyday economics[/box] April 13, 2016 – Financial literacy is a vitally important skill for achieving success, yet one that is rarely taught in school. It is perhaps no wonder that more than…

  • The Greatest Crash Of Your Life Is Just Ahead… – warns Harry Dent

    Harry Dent, best-selling author and economist, has warned that the stock bubble in the U.S. today is the biggest in history and that the “greatest crash of your life is just ahead…” Writing on his website EconomyandMarkets.com, Dent warned that The story on Wall Street and CNBC continues to be that we’re in a correction…

  • Short Selling vs Casino Gambling

    Q: When a proposal for short selling is presented, a frequent objection is that profit potential is limited in that the shares can only go down to zero but losses are potentially infinite since there is no limit, in theory, to how high the stock price can go. How do you answer such an objection?…

  • Does The Fixed System use Austrian Economics?

    I prefer the approach Rothbard takes in Man, Economy, and State (written 1975), his one-thousand-page magnum opus and attempt to include all the laws of economics. He built on the work done by his mentor, Ludwig von Mises, in Human Action. Mises was from Vienna, Austria. The name Austrian Economics derived from a simple fact…

  • Can Governments Fix a Market Price?

    The Silver Market was recently found to be rigged. Can Governments Fix a Market Price? [box type=”info”]HISTORIC EVENT: LBMA SILVER FIX BREAKS, JANUARY 28TH — Silver Markets in Disarray After Benchmark Price FIXED AT $13.58, FAR BELOW REAL WORLD Trades, Spot Price[/box] No, they cannot. Consider the fact that all currency pegs have ultimately failed.…