by Mac Slavo | Jan 16, 2010 | Commodities
Financial adviser Howard Ruff discusses wealth preservation during hard times in an interview with The Gold Report. Ruff, like Marc Faber, Jim Rogers and Howard Katz, has staked his reputation on the economic crisis eventually leading to inflation of the US Dollar....
by Mac Slavo | Jan 15, 2010 | Headline News, Ron Paul
Ron Paul speaks on the House floor in Mayof 2009. Excerpts from Ron Paul’s Current Conditions or Just a Bad Dream: (Video follows excerpts) “Could it all be a bad dream, or a nightmare? Is it my imagination, or have we lost our minds? It’s surreal;...
by Mac Slavo | Jan 15, 2010 | Entertainment, Tom of the North
A favorite SHTF Plan contributor and author of the satirical blog Outside the (Cardboard) Box, Tom of the North, brings back to life Charles Ponzi, the man credited with inventing the modern day pyramid scheme, or as Mr. Ponzi would like it referred to, a...
by Mac Slavo | Jan 15, 2010 | Headline News
President Obama, Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner want us all to believe that the US economic recovery started in the 3rd quarter of 2009. The recovery theory is based on technical factors, specifically, that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been growing. Historically,...
by Mac Slavo | Jan 15, 2010 | Forecasting, Headline News
While most Americans understand that falling wages, job losses and contracting consumer credit leads to less spending, it seems that many economists just can’t figure out what happened to retail sales in December. Some earlier reports and estimates this month...
