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The smoking guns...

Past and future of central bank cooperation

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Calculated Risk

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Pater Tenebrarum

Russ Winter

Jerry Pournelle

Bank ratings, find a probably sounder bank

Bauer Financial/a>

A truly excellent data and chart source

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A free and good stock trading site

Covers many stocks, and most US and Canadian exchanges. Do your own due diligence!

Peak oil sites

The oil drum

View from the peak

Globalization makes national currencies obsolete

Ben Steil of the C.F.R. on one of the very biggest issues

Real money basics & history

What banks, academics, the media and politicians don't tell you about money (truly excellent, but quite long)

Fiat (unbacked paper) money basics & history

Fiat Money Systems (great long term currency chart)

Three Peaks and the Domed House

Quite a track record of top calling...

Exchange or currency controls?

Capital Controls: Theory and Practice

The History of Money

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Crash course

Chris Martenson's crash course to catch up with the key truths

Adages

Famous and fun adages

The JFK Myth

Was he assassinated because he opposed the Fed?

Manias, etc.

Download Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841) (1.6 MB text document)

World gold coin reference

Weights, fineness, etc. on many coins

Beginners Guide to Coin History

Beginners Guide to Coin History

Democracy index

Liberty and justice for some

Greed

Milton Friedman on greed and capitalism

Good books

Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy - Thomas Sowell

Japan's Deflation and Policy Response

"The prescription for 1930s' type debt deflation has been proposed by, among others, Bernanke and Gertler (1990). The financial accelerator problem may be dealt with by transferring income to debtors with promising projects, at least to the extent that such projects and borrowers are identifiable. The same thing may be said about banks. Macroeconomic policy can take care of general price deflation."

"The case of Japan since the 1990s is more complicated. As I have hopefully made clear, the deflation of general prices has not been the major problem. Instead, asset price deflation and its interaction with the financial system and the economy have been at the core of the problem. There are two views on the asset price deflation of the period. One view holds that the bubble of the late 1980s had to burst. The other recognizes a secular decline in the return on capital starting sometime in the late 1980s and associated declines in asset prices and investment. The two are not inconsistent with each other, but mutually reinforcing. The second view seems to need the first to explain the temporary rise in asset prices. The two differ in their estimates of where prices will end up, but are in accordance in claiming that adjustments in asset prices and investment were inevitable. To be sure, the negative accelerator story suggests that the economy and asset prices may fall further than is necessary. Hence, beyond a certain point, policies to support asset prices may be justifiable. It would, however, be difficult to determine whether the economy had reached such a stage. Also, a more fundamental policy response would be to address the problems of the financial system and other inefficiencies in the economy."

A review of "Debt & Delusion"

An excellent article by Robert Blumen

Ten fundamental principles of net energy

Good article

The American form of government

Good 10.5 minute video covering the basics of government

Very broad coverage on many topics

Grandfather Economics Report

Major long term factors

Aging Demographics - The Other Super Secular Trend

World Population Aging: 1950-2050

Debt & Delusion

Third world myths

Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

Corruptions Perceptions Index

World perceptions - which countries are the most corrupt

Silver coin counterfeits

How to Spot Fake Silver Coins

The Bottom Line

Monetary Episodes from History, partially a story of gold & silver

Monetary History from Ancient Times to the Present Day, another story of gold & silver

Goldman Sachs 666

goldmansachs666 blog

What sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear

Gold history

Guru grades

Diamonds

The Fate of Paper Money

History of all Paper Money

Gold as an investment (Wikipedia)

Great article on employment stats

Coin Collecting

Some gold & silver purchasing sources