As a prelude to the animated blockbuster we reviewed recently, Edgar the Exploiter , video-maker Tomasz Kaye brings us George Ought to Help , which offers a libertarian spin on mandatory taxation.
“Imagine you have a friend called Geor ...
Tag: Fundamentals
Feature - May 9th, 2012
Worries about Europe’s sovereign debt crisis sparked a wave of paper silver and gold exchanges at lower prices on JP Morgan’s COMEX after Europe’s credit markets opened for the first time this week on Tuesday.
For institutions, cash is seen as a mor ...
All terms: Bonds, China, COMEX, Deflation, ECB, Futures, gold prices, Inflation, silver prices, Fundamentals
Feature - May 2nd, 2012
An advisory panel to the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve has unanimously endorsed a new kind of financial instrument, the floating rate Treasury note. While touted as a hedge against rising interest rates, the true beneficiaries will be not American t ...
All terms: Bonds, Derivatives, Inflation, quantitative easing, S&P 500, Shadow banks, U.S. Treasury, Fundamentals
Video - May 2nd, 2012
“The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour,” wrote economist Murray Rothbard in 1988. “This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage cont ...
All terms: Fundamentals
Video - April 25th, 2012
Although the 2008 crash induced widespread shock and awe among everyone from mom-and-pop investors who believed you “couldn’t go wrong” with real estate, to seasoned pension fund managers, there were some bright economists and commentators who saw it co ...
All terms: Fundamentals
Feature - April 25th, 2012
Of all the so-called “robber barons” who made vast fortunes, purportedly by callous and anti-competitive mans, the one most solidly identified with a great philanthropic legacy is Andrew Carnegie. Although many of the wealthy industrialists of the Gilde ...
Feature - April 25th, 2012
Considering exiting the bond market? That would make you a contrarian to say the least. As the chart illustrates, almost a trillion dollars has flowed into bond funds, including municipal bonds, since the beginning of 2007. Encompassing the period befor ...
All terms: Bernanke, Bonds, currency inflation, Derivatives, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, Municipal Bonds, Fundamentals
Feature - April 18th, 2012
Often in public discourse and around the office water cooler, when someone uses the term “inflation,” we realize they are talking about price inflation. When we at WealthCycles.com write about inflation, we’re talking about a very different—although rel ...
Feature - April 18th, 2012
Like other wily tycoons who built huge fortunes in the growing American economy of the 19th century, Cornelius Vanderbilt became known to history as one of the era’s “Robber Barons.” But although he was a ruthless competitor who helped invent some of ca ...
All terms: Capitalism, commodities, Government, innovation, Political Economy, transport, U.S. economy, Fundamentals
Feature - April 11th, 2012
America’s mythical Robber Barons—the powerful industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s who founded enormous companies, transformed industries and became fabulously rich in process—have been much maligned and set up as a stalking horse for all th ...
All terms: Capitalism, Economics, Government, Oil, Politics, U.S. Taxpayer, Fundamentals