Counting Your Chickens in Dollars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fSM9WHlXjI ...backed by an amorphous construct - one that it is powerful and hostile. It is mathematically impossible to repay both official and unofficial debt without collapsing the system that manufactures it.

A Tale of How It All Went Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFDbEHovMU From domestic divisions to geopolitical tensions and hot spots boiling over - the confusion was palpable. There were too many places to look for blame. Too many contributing causes.

The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

http://ift.tt/1x7dlH0 Whether imposed by authority or by accident, a true banking holiday would make the value of necessities skyrocket in price relative to the sudden supply shortage.

A Time to Prepare

http://ift.tt/1wwoKBs To measure a ‘return’ with anything other than ounces at this stage in the game is absurd.

A Brief Financial Moment in Time

http://ift.tt/1BU8Xzv It may have arisen from humanity - human systems - but finance has morphed so far beyond anything humane that it is unrecognizable. It is other-worldly.

Petrodollar Ponzi Madness

http://ift.tt/1wqv380 Some have pointed out that this marks the end of the “petro-dollar” - and a foreshadowing of the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency

Regulation is Newspeak

http://ift.tt/1B1jQMs http://ift.tt/1yM4A77

The Precious Metals Guarantee

http://ift.tt/1q5ftil The precious metals have nearly always been a key signaling mechanism — acting as the most efficient economic and financial communicator.

Capturing the China Cat

http://ift.tt/1vGw3pl Economics and finance can serve as one such portrait. China will lurch toward achieving first world status - but it will not go without spillover effect with the surround.