Unless you’ve been out bush the past few weeks you couldn’t have helped but hear more of the ongoing problems in Europe, particularly Greece and discussions of “austerity measures” and a further bailout.  Also happening in Europe but not widely covered are some seriously large falls in the value of some major banks share prices in the...

Jun 22, 2011

Much of the talk, both mainstream and “underground” on the internet is currently centred on what the next “black swan” will be.  Will it be a Greece default? More middle eastern riots and government overthrows? A break up of the Euro-zone, or the (comical) US debt ceiling not being raised, that causes gold to lurch higher?  (Truth be told these...

At this time of the year it’s easy to be swallowed up by the consumerism that goes hand in hand with the festive season in the western world.  In this article John Kim – who we have featured a number of times before – makes the point that the powers that be aim to distract us from what is really going on… Bankers have studied human...

At the Symposium on Sound Money last week in Auckland we heard Prof Antal Fekete among others speak.  Here Darryl Schoon comments on the words of another hungarian Melchior Palyi whom he first heard about via Professor Fekete.  As usual Darryl’s study of monetary history shines through.  We always learn something new whenever we read his writings and...

If you’ve been with us for a while you’ve heard before from Darryl Schoon.  In this, his latest article he draws on a couple of brilliant books that perhaps not too surprisingly – given their topics – had very little coverage.   In the process also covering Central Banks and gold manipulation, the Euro, and what might predict the...