The Insidious Threats of Central Banks and Espionage Agencies

Central Banks and Domestic SpiesJ.B. Shurk – Central banks and espionage agencies are insidious threats to any free people. The former manipulate the value of money, and the latter manipulate the perceived truthfulness of information. Both ostensibly work for the broader public’s “best interest,” but as is true of all institutions, they ultimately serve the interests of those people who run them. Spies and bankers should not have so much power over free citizens.

Both institutions are not only plainly anti-democratic but also inherently authoritarian. The central banker says, “Free markets cannot be trusted to direct the flow of goods and services, so a small collection of experts must be empowered to manipulate markets at their discretion.”

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Is New York City Bringing Down Its Financial House?

With The Trump Verdict, Is New York City Bringing Down Its Financial House?Anony Mee – I feel sorry for President Trump, his family, his colleagues and coworkers, and all who depend on his various enterprises for their livelihood. The seven-count New York City fraud lawsuit has been a years-long mess. But The City may well have brought about its own demise in its blinkered pursuit of one man.

I’m no lawyer, but I have done business, so I took a look at Judge Engoron’s 92-page ruling from the perspective of a prospective investor in New York. Here’s what I learned.
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Super Bull Market in Gold About to Start [Video]

Super Bull Market in Gold About to StartGreg Hunter – Renowned geopolitical and financial cycle expert Charles Nenner has been warning of a huge war and financial cycle, and it is clear both continue to build.  The war cycle will continue to amplify until World War III breaks out.  Meanwhile, unpayable debt will continue to explode until another Great Depression hits America again.  Standing in the gap is gold, and the wait for a bull market is about over.

Nenner explains, “The dollar’s buying power could possibly  be cut in half. . . . That’s the reason why we expect a super bull market in gold and silver when the cycle bottoms.  You remember I came on and said coming, coming, but not yet?  I say it was too early . . . but, now, we are getting very close to a bull market.  . . . Gold could still have one more down move because the cycles are still down.” Continue reading

The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs and Artificial Scarcity

The U.S. Housing Market: Rent-Serfs and Artificial ScarcityCharles Hugh Smith – Ideologies sound wonderful in the abstract, but run aground in the granular real world. The dominate ideology in the world today isn’t a political ideology, it’s the ideology of the market: in this ideology, the market is presented as the ideal problem-solving mechanism, as the interplay of supply and demand and the free flow of capital and labor will automatically fill unmet demand with new supply and provide competition that increases quality and reduces costs.

Let’s consider how the market functions in the real-world U.S. housing market. Take a mixed-use neighborhood of single-family homes with a scattering of low-rise rental buildings. It’s desirable but still affordable to buyers and renters alike. Continue reading

Trump Lawyer Will Respond To Judge Engoran in Appeal

Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Will Respond in AppealHannah Bleau Knudsen – Trump lawyer Alina Habba told Breitbart News Daily that she is going to “thoughtfully” and “methodically” respond to the ruling in New York’s fraud case against former President Donald Trump, stating that it is “going to be on the appeal” and “you can read it and weep.”

Habba spoke about the trial and the aftermath of a New York judge — Judge Arthur Engoron — ordering Trump to pay $355 million over allegations of fraud. The judge also banned Trump from conducting business in the Empire State for three years. Continue reading