Economy Face Off: Ron Paul vs Paul Krugman

Bloomberg 4/30/2012

Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul talk about inflation, monetary policy and the role of the Federal Reserve. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.”

How Reagan Cut Oil Prices And Why It Won’t Happen Now

A Weak Dollar, Not Oil Company Greed, is Driving Prices Up

Editorial Investors.com 4/5/2012

Energy: Governments aren’t powerless to slash the price of oil. Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker once did exactly that. But it took a kind of commitment not in sight today.

Among all the factors pushing up prices at the gas pump, […]

Peter Schiff – The Fed Unspun: The Other Side of the Story

ReasonTV YouTube 4/3/2012

“Ben Bernanke fancies himself as a student of the Great Depression,” says renowned investment broker, global strategist, author, and Austrian economist Peter Schiff, “but… if he were my student he would have gotten an F.”

During a lecture entitled “The Fed Unspun: The Other Side of the Story”, Schiff responded to […]

The Sun Also Sets

Mark Steyn National Review Online 3/24/2012

I was in Australia earlier this month and there, as elsewhere on my recent travels, the consensus among the politicians I met (at least in private) was that Washington lacked the will for meaningful course correction, and that, therefore, the trick was to ensure that, when the behemoth goes […]

Turkish Government Wants Their People’s Gold

Douglas French The Circle Bastiat 3/23/2012

Just one visit to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar tells a visitor how Turks store value. The Turkish monetary authorities have a history of debauching their currency so Turks store their wealth in gold and rugs. There are 373 jewelers and 125 rug stores in the bazaar.

In 1966, one US […]

Jim Rogers: Enjoy 2012 Because Trouble Looms for 2013. And what is happening in China??

Forrest Jones Moneynews.com 22 Mar 2012

Investors should enjoy 2012, as economic stimulus measures will prop up markets this year, an election year, but economies will tank in 2013 and in 2014 when they can no longer grow on ultra-loose monetary policies and government borrowing, says international investor Jim Rogers.

In the United States and […]

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