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The Clear Signs of a Global Inflationary Tsunami Are Already Visible Around the World

Since the Financial Crisis erupted in 2007, the US Federal Reserve has engaged in dozens of interventions/ bailouts to try […]

Singapore Will Replace Switzerland as Wealth Capital

By: Robert Frank, From CNBC, Thanks in part to its generous tax regime, Singapore has been a millionaire haven for […]

Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm

WHEN he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a […]

Water Resource Issues, Policy and Politics in China

Editor’s note: Scott Moore is Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard […]

Israel’s Iron Dome, and the Ongoing Energy Revolution

By Byron King, Outstanding Investments Byron King The Middle East mess affects all manner of scenarios for future price and […]

Russia Is Next In Line To Restrict Cash Transactions

The Russians are taking a page from the Europeans book (and not a positive one for libertarians). Given the substantial […]

The United Kingdom Moves Away from the European Project

By Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor, British Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver a speech in London on Jan. 23, during which […]

Should central banks now sell gold?

  Central banks in debt-strapped countries have a golden opportunity ahead of them, if you will excuse the pun, to […]

Bitcoin for Beginners

By Jeffrey Tucker, From Laissez Faire Club, Understanding Bitcoin requires that we understand the limits of our ability to imagine […]

Wood – The fuel of the future? Environmental lunacy in Europe

From the Economist, WHICH source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has […]