Jay Rockefeller Roasting Pat Buchanan (yep)
*Correction: The man in this clip is Senator Jay Rockefeller, not David Rockefeller. The clip below is from 1991, at a Spina Bifida Foundation roast of Pat Buchanan. Rockefeller’s jokes about...
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Nanex Documents the Rise of the HFT Machines
One of the coolest and most disturbing data presentations I’ve come across in a while. Shows volume of high frequency trading over time, by time of day. If Joe Investor isn’t terrified of this...
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US Budget, Broken Down to a Family Level
Keynesians like Paul Krugman are fond of saying we shouldn’t look at a country’s budget/balance sheet like a family’s. It’s somehow fundamentally different, because government spending is … always...
View ArticleFacebook Lock-Up Period Timetable
Facebook, a company with skyrocketing costs and a ~126 P/E, has an interesting few months ahead of it… FACEBOOK LOCK-UP RELEASES: August 15th, 2012 (next Thursday): 268 million shares, 10% of shares...
View ArticleJim Rogers Talks EU, US Debt, Elections, Next Recession/Depression
A dapper Jim Rogers covers a number of important issues in the clip below. Despite the Reuters interviewer, who acts almost as if she is speaking to a senile person, Rogers keeps his cool and seems as...
View ArticleGuest Post: What to do when you’ve hit your breaking point
Courtesy of SovereignMan.com By Simon Black At some point or another, anyone who is even remotely paying attention to reality will likely reach two critical moments of awakening in their lives. The...
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End The Fed, Hoard Bitcoins
By Pierre of the Mises Circle The libertarian strategy for undermining fiat currencies has always centered on making gold and silver viable alternatives. This effort has failed because it is...
View ArticleLibertarians & Bitcoins
Today bitcoins surged to at a fresh all-time high of $110 $127. A ridiculous move up since the Cyprus event, when the price was sub-$46. In the clip below Tom Woods talks with Bitinstant founder...
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Glenn Greenwald Destroys Bill Maher on Foreign Policy, Interventionism
I don’t think Mr. Greenwald will be a panel member on Real Time again any time soon. But if Maher ever does have Glenn on his show again, I’ll give him some credit. Because Bill capitulated. He...
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Why the fundamental rationale for holding gold is as robust as ever
Guest post by SovereignMan.com [Editor's note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon this morning.] As Ben...
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