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Excellent video about the cause of the great recession–please watch

Watch this excellent video titled “Fraud: Why the Great Recession“. It is an hour and six minutes long, but it is worth every minute. It is important to watch it to the very end, even after the credits start to … Continue reading

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Hoppe’s Dangerous Books

By Joakim Fagerstrom and Joakim Kampe, www.mises.se Introductory Comments by RadioFreeMarket.com Founder, Michael J. McKay To the human mind held in captivity Freedom is an idea which, if it comes at all , can come slowly at first and then … Continue reading

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Westralian mining legend Ron Manners of Mannkal belongs in The Property and Freedom Society

by Benjamin Marks, Capitalism.HK and Economics.org.au editor O fortunate age! O happy times! in which shall be made public my incomparable atchievements, worthy to be ingraved in brass, on marble sculptured, and in painting shewn, as great examples to futurity! … Continue reading

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What if the monetary system has been taken over by criminals?

In this interview Max Keiser’s guest, Dr. Michael Hudson, discusses Shiela Bair’s new book, which claims that our monetary system is under the control of a Wall Street “mafia”.  She ought to know, because Sheila Bair was head of the … Continue reading

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My letter to the NY Times re: the real lesson from the 1987 stock market crash

Re: A Lesson From 1987,Unlearned by Wall St. Dear Sirs: Mr. Norris’ discussion of the role played by the then novice use of high speed computer trading in the 1987 stock market crash is merely a side show to the … Continue reading

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More Pundits Are Thinking About Gold

Re:  A Golden Solution for Europe’s Sovereign-Debt Crisis The author, Stephen Fidler, is off the mark, but the significance of his article is that he advises using gold as a solution.  The over-indebted countries do not need to find ways … Continue reading

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Physical Concepts of Money

As impressive as are the visual graphics below of the U.S. government’s deficit, they do not convey the individual American’s responsibility for this debt. For example, how much of the federal government’s ANNUAL deficit is each American citizen required to repay–with interest, of course–in … Continue reading

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Two Good Articles that Reflect the Original Purpose of the European Union

Here are two good article about the real work yet to be done by the EU.  These articles reflect the original purpose of the EU as a voluntary organization of sovereign states that would cooperate to reduce trade barriers in … Continue reading

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Interview about the unstoppable movement to gold money

In this interview Mr. Egon von Geyerz says something that is very insightful; i.e., that the demand for gold will increase DESPITE interventions to drive down its exchange value vis a vis fiat currencies. In fact, the more governments try … Continue reading

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Smiling in Bodrum

By Michael J. McKay “Why are you smiling?” My friend asked me this as our van accelerated away on our departure from Bodrum, Turkey. I was unable to answer him, frankly, because I had stopped noticing. I guess I had … Continue reading

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