Tesla and Solar City Announce Merger – A Sign The Stock Market Has Peaked

Two Heavily Government Subsidized Money Losing Entities to Merge. New Entity to Reap Synergies of the New Math?: -2 + -2 = +5. Tesla Announces Plans to Buy Solar City – Tesla Stock Tanks Tesla announced today that it is making an offer to buy Solar City. Tesla makes battery powered cars at a loss Read More →

The Fed’s Credibility Gap Goes Main Stream

Politicians, The Media and Fed Members Themselves Begin To Question The Fed, its Policies and Credibility For years Ron Paul was the lone voice crying in the wilderness against the inanity of Federal Reserve monetary policy and the Fed itself. Congressman’s Paul’s exchanges with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke were classic. Since Mr. Paul retired from Read More →

The Dark Side of Minimum Wage Laws

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Minimum Wage Laws Waste Limited Technology Resources. Minimum wage laws encourage innovation to eliminate jobs rather than to enhance products and services. Watch “The Dark Side of Minimum Wage Laws” Watch Video on Bitchute A Misdirection of Tech Resources and Innovation Much has been written in favor of and against minimum wage laws from social Read More →

How the Federal Reserve Manages the Dollar and Avoids Collapse

Will the Fed Sacrifice the Dollar To Save the Markets? The Dollar Index* is higher today than it was before the Federal Reserve launched a series of quantitative easing programs that involved printing over $4 trillion out of thin air in order to buy U.S. Treasury Bonds and mortgage backed securities from the too big Read More →

Why Are New Home Sales Still Far Below Those of Prior Decades?

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New home sales during the housing “recovery” of the past few years are roughly equal to the lows of new home sales of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. More new homes were sold in many months in the 1960’s and 1970’s than were ever sold during any month during the period of 2010-2016. Three Factors Read More →

If The Fed Has to, They Will Raise Interest Rates Again – Podcast

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April Fed Minutes Show Non Voting Members Believe A Rate Hike At June Meeting Might Be Appropriate Fed Officials Launch Two Week Media Blitz To Tell Markets that June is a “Live” Meeting Last week we repeated our view that the Fed will raise interest rates in order to protect the value of the dollar Read More →

Why the Fed Raised Rates Last Year And Will Do So Again This Year

The Federal Reserve Bank formed in 1913 has debased the dollar nearly 99% since inception

The Fed raised rates in 2015 to protect the dollar and demand for Treasury Bonds. They will do it again in 2016. Fed credibility supports the dollar, lack of Fed credibility weakens it. The Fed and U.S. Treasury Bonds Protecting the dollar and demand for U.S. Treasury Bonds is more important than the Fed’s dual Read More →

To Those Who Say. . .

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“I have nothing to hide“ You must trust the government agrees with you. Loss of privacy is one dark side of a cashless society: In a cashless society there is the loss of privacy. Digital money offers the convenience of allowing you to track and budget your money online. Such a system, however, also leaves Read More →

Are Entrepreneurs Really Tricked by Artificially Low Interest Rates?

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Do Artifically Low Interest Rates Trick Entrepreneurs into Making Malinvestments? There is an Austrian School of Economics tenet that states that one danger of artificially low interest rates is that they “trick entrepreneurs” into making “malinvestments’; ones that in retrospect don’t make any economic sense had the entrepreneur not been tricked by the “false signal” Read More →

The Cashless Society – How Did We Get Here?

The Cashless Society – How Did we Get here? As the cashless society, once a futuristic concept appears to be upon us, we ask: How did this happen? Welcome to the Cashless Society – How Did We Get Here? Watch Video on Bitchute SMAULGLD BITCHUTE CHANNEL Check out all the Smaulgld podcasts here. Not a Read More →