The Money Illusion
Freedom is, in the historical context, a new idea. Perhaps 97 percent of the time, tyranny has ruled men’s lives. Sun Tzu was popular 2,500 years ago and remains so today while Ludwig von Mises received only a passing mention…
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Freedom is, in the historical context, a new idea. Perhaps 97 percent of the time, tyranny has ruled men’s lives. Sun Tzu was popular 2,500 years ago and remains so today while Ludwig von Mises received only a passing mention…
To understand how governments manufacture consent from the people they govern, it is helpful to examine a classic text about military strategy, “The Art of War.” This work has been attributed to Sun Tzu who is thought to have lived…
An inverse exchange-traded fund is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), traded on a public stock market, which is designed to perform as the inverse of whatever index or benchmark it is designed to track. These funds work by using short selling,…
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level…
We Promise to Pay You unless We Decide not to Given a free market choice, very few people would buy so-called sovereign debt, i.e. government debt. That is one reason why central banks create money out of thin air and…
An investor can do only one of two things: buy or sell. Establishment brokers, investment bankers, founders and stock promoters are all on the sell side to public investors: the widows and orphans. Generally, insiders acquire shares for next to…
There once was a man named DeRopp who wrote a book titled The Master Game. No need to discuss his book or his philosophy here, other than to say it had to do with the shaping of one’s life and…
Investment experts who predicted a turbulent stock market this year have seen their prophecies come true. One of the more recent examples came when a spike in long-term interest rates unnerved investors, sending major U.S. stock indexes on a downward…
The Prevailing Principle to Win the Money Game The Power of Compounding Pre-Tax Contributions and Accumulations: For example, a 10% return over 30 years will produce 4 times the accumulation of a 5% return. With marginal income tax rates approaching…
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The US Debt Clock has released another provocative Secret Window poster, and this time the New Money Revolution delivers its message through the simplest financial question imaginable. The headline reads: KID MONEY LOGIC Standing on…