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[Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] As investors we are all suckers for narrative. The current narrative appears to be: China is slowing down, so the sky is falling in. Everybody in the West used to be concerned that China was taking over
Just had a great weekend in Dallas, where I had the pleasure of spending some time with Dr. Ron Paul. After our event on Saturday we sat down to record a quick podcast that I’m eager to share with you. In this quick audio session we covered his views on
When I was a kid, I used to proudly wear around a T-shirt explaining different economic systems using ‘two cows’ as a metaphor. It started off like this: Socialism: You have two cows. Give one to your neighbor. Then Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both and gives
I’ve long-stated that the government of the United States is completely insolvent. And that is 100% true statement. The government’s own numbers show that official liabilities, including debt held by the public and federal retirement benefits, total $20.7 trillion. Yet the government’s assets, including the value of the entire federal
The Road to Ruin, as they say, is paved with good intentions. So I suppose the road to hell is paved in the best of intentions. And that’s how most laws often start: with the BEST of intentions. That was certainly the case when Barack Obama signed the HIRE Act into
When I was a kid growing up in the early 80s, the United States was the undisputed dominant superpower in the world. The US dollar was awe-inspiring; on a trade-weighted basis, the dollar index was at an all-time high, and had never been as strong ever before… or since. And
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