2014: The First Year of the 21st Century Dark Age

“Big Western socialist governments are dying and our leaders know it. So they are acting like caged animals and fighting back the only way they know how: By attacking their own citizens.  This is how Rome died. This is how the Byzantine empire fell. It’s how the maritime merchant-based Venetian times ended. And many other civilizations throughout history that have often been at the core of the global economy.  They do not die by hyperinflation, as so many seem to think. They do not die by severe deflation either. Instead, they die by leaders turning against their own people to hunt down every penny of wealth they can find to tax and confiscate — all in the name of saving the government.”

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/2014-the-first-year-of-the-21st-century-dark-age-56957

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Everything Is Modular . . . Is Governance Next?

“Interchangeable parts revolutionized manufacturing—and all aspects of life—at the dawn of the Industrial Age. It’s in some way analogous to how the digitization of information is changing life today. The difference is that now you get the best of both worlds: You can keep the differentiation and individualization while also getting the standardization. It’s a mash-up world; it’s weird, and it’s beautiful. We can most easily see the impact in entertainment, but the implications reach far deeper, opening new possibilities for commerce and governance.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/everything-is-modular-is-governance-next

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G. Edward Griffin on Globalism, Collectivism and the ‘Right Principles’

“I think the most important thing we can do today is to recognize that our opponents are not evil because of their political party affiliation. They’re not our opponents because they’re evil or because they have this, that or the other thing. It’s because they have an ideal, a philosophy that they’re following. People mistakenly often just attack them because of the party labels – ‘Get rid of him. He’s a Democrat!’ or ‘He’s a Republican. Get rid of him!’ Who’s going to replace him? Somebody just exactly the same, with the same mindset. So it does no good to focus on personalities and names. We have to rise above that and focus on the ideas these individuals are pursuing.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/34836/Anthony-Wile-G-Edward-Griffin-on-Globalism-Collectivism-and-Right-Principles/

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The Biggest Interest-Rate Turn in 37 Years

“We witnessed the power of bond market vigilantes in 1980, at a time when most of them were in the United States. Now it’s much worse because so many are overseas.  We witnessed their power again in 1994, at a time when there was virtually no inflation scare. Now, it’s worse because all the Fed’s money printing is spooking investors about future inflation.  We also saw their power repeatedly in 2011 and 2012, when they dumped the bonds of Greece, Spain and Italy. Now it’s worse because, unlike the situation in Europe, there’s no country or union in the world big enough to bail out America.  In one sense, nothing has changed since Carter’s day of reckoning on April 15, 1980.”

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-biggest-interest-rate-turn-in-37-years-56969

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How the Paper Money Experiment Will End

“We are now in a situation that looks like a dead end for the paper money system. After the last cycle, governments have bailed out malinvestments in the private sector and boosted their public welfare spending. Deficits and debts skyrocketed. Central banks printed money to buy public debts (or accept them as collateral in loans to the banking system) in unprecedented amounts. Will money printing be a constant with interest rates close to zero until people lose their confidence in the paper currencies? Can the paper money system be maintained or will we necessarily get a hyperinflation sooner or later?  There are at least seven possibilities.”

http://www.mises.org/daily/6609/How-the-Paper-Money-Experiment-Will-End

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When the FDA Declared War on a Texas AIDS Patient

“One thing the movie does well is show how those in charge of these monopoly organizations have little concern for peoples’ welfare, and how real doctors and patients are unable to effectively fight the system. It also depicts the police, the IRS, and border agents are the enforcement arm of this crony capitalist system.  Most people never see the American medical establishment exposed for what it is. Dallas Buyers Club shows the system at its very worst, a crony capitalist combination of the profit motive armed with the vast enforcement power of the federal government.”

http://www.mises.org/daily/6607/When-the-FDA-Declared-War-on-a-Texas-AIDS-Patient

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Bill Bonner: Is This the World’s Cheapest Commodity Play?

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“Brazil has made its share of bad decisions… and suffered its share of bad policies. Generals, dictators, repression, depression and hyperinflation – Brazil has seen it all.  In the 1980s, Brazil’s consumer price increases went wild. In constant currency, a taxi ride that might have cost 4 cruzeiros in 1980 would have cost 5 trillion cruzeiros in 1994.  The government tried to head off inflation by introducing a new currency, the cruzado. Then came the new cruzado. Then came the cruzeiro back. And finally, the government introduced the real.  With prices rising so rapidly, it was impossible for investors and business people to make reasonable projections.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/is-this-the-worlds-cheapest-commodity-play/

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Investors, Run for Cover From the Incoming ‘Taper Bomb’

“The bond market sell-off is leaving fixed-income investors (at least, those who didn’t heed my advice to get out of the way) with the worst annual losses on bonds since 1999.  It also proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the bond market is more powerful than the Fed.  Now, against that backdrop, the Fed is about to hold its last policy meeting of 2013. On Dec. 17 and 18, policymakers will gather around a conference table in Washington and decide whether to continue their $85 billion-per-month QE program.  My prediction? They drop a taper bomb and start dialing down those purchases, probably by at least $10 billion.”

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/investors-run-for-cover-from-the-incoming-taper-bomb-56931

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Why you can’t run Bitcoin apps on your iPhone?

“The official explanation from Apple is foggy. For example they told Blockchain: ‘…the facilitation of trading of virtual currency is not appropriate for the App Store.’ Gliph speculates that the real reason is that Apple believes Bitcoin may be made illegal in the future and they are trying to prevent any issues.  But, I think none of these reasons are correct.  Apple doesn’t want Bitcoin to compete with their own upcoming payment system.  I think Apple is preparing a fast, easy and elegant payment solution for retailers and customers. The fingerprint reader will allow fast authentication and the  iBeacon indoor positioning system technology will create a quick way to checkout.”

http://bitcoinowl.com/why-you-cant-run-bitcoin-apps-your-iphone

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Obama Amends the Constitution By Statute

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“The PPACA authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a proposal if the IPAB board does not do so by a set date. As with the board, if Congress does not provide an alternative to that proposal, then the Secretary is authorized to implement it unilaterally, and with appropriated funds if necessary. (Presumably, the funds would come from Medicare.) In short, a panel of 15 experts will assume the unprecedented power of making federal law and changing laws previously enacted by Congress. Or one woman will: Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34815/Wendy-McElroy-Obama-Amends-the-Constitution-By-Statute/

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