Getting Paid for Doing the Obvious? By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at I’ve spent a good few hours running. Up hills, down hills, along flats… just running. A not so startling realization is that running uphill burns more calories, is more taxing on your body, makes you breathe harder, and will make you tire faster than running on …

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Jim Grant Explains How To Hedge Against The Coming Money Paradrop Submitted by Christopher Gisiger via Finanz Und Wirtschaft, James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the investment journal Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, warns of ever more extreme central bank policies and bets on the comeback of gold. The global financial markets are under …

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The Table Is Set For The Next Financial Crisis Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The housing market peaked in 2005 and proceeded to crash over the next five years, with existing home sales falling 50%, new home sales falling 75%, and national home prices falling 30%. A funny thing happened after …

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Janet Yellen Falters During Speech, Receives Medical Attention, All-Clear Given For those watching Janet Yellen's speech this evening, the fact that she seemed to struggle towards the end of her speech was a surprise. Now we know why… **FED'S YELLEN GETTING MEDICAL ATTENTION AFTER SPEECH -REUTERS It is hardly surprising given that she now carries …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Democracy Has Departed The West Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Before the West spreads democracy abroad maybe it could get some for itself. The US is an oligarchy in which government is answerable to six powerful private interest groups. In Europe governments are answerable to the EU, Washington, and private bankers and …

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The Crisis Of The Now: Distracted & Diverted From The Ever-Encroaching Police State Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become …

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The Established Order Will Be Challenged Submitted by Raymond Matison via The Market Oracle, With its recent miniscule 2% devaluation of the Yuan, media pundits noted that China had now also entered into the global currency war.  What this comment implies is that other countries with the ability to issue or print their own currency, …

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Going Back To What Works: Gold Is Money Again (Thanks To Utah) As of today you really can pay your taxes, your credit cards, your mortgage, shop at Costco, and buy your groceries without so much as a bank account while using sound money. As PopularLiberty.com explains, The fact that Texas announced that it withdrawing …

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If You Live In These States You'll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org, To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a …

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Palo Alto Outdoes Itself As many of you know, the real estate market in Palo Alto has been going bananas for years, particularly recently. I’ve written about this phenomenon here, here, here, and – my favorite – here. I’ve lived in Palo Alto since 1991, and at the time, it was a terrible stretch for the very-young Tim to …

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