Broad Oak Magazine

As the price of gold continues to float above $1,000, I do wonder where it all is, really. Thinking about the Federal Reserve, I suddenly re...

Here is a very worrisome point : None other than disgraced senator Ted Stevens was the poor sap who made the unpleasant discovery that if Co...

This extract ( highlight mine ) from Robert P. Murphy's essay on the Mises Institute website explains some of the process whereby hard t...

You tend to get a clear and concise explanation from somebody, when they either blow their cool or are in a hurry to get somewhere else. Her...

On The Big Picture , a rude but concise video by Neal Fox about the Federal Reserve. As his catchy song points out, its existence defies the...

The state is always and everywhere a danger, even when it has no monopoly on money and no printing press that can create money tickets at wi...

The London Banker gives the US a magisterial damning, citing many instances of the Executive acting in ways he considers ultra vires in the...

We're in a surreal phase. As Denninger points out, there is no legal authority for the Federal Reserve to accept stocks and shares as c...

Jim in San Marcos borrows and discusses a chart showing homeowners' equity. As residential property prices drop, more borrowers move int...

"Deepcaster" ( Financial Sense, January 4) looks again at the mysterious ownership (and creation) of the US dollar by a private ba...

Michael Panzner directs us to John Hussman , who explains that the Federal Reserve's power to manage the financial system is very limite...

Martin Hutchinson (Money Morning, today) sees the Fed caught between a rock and a hard place : as the dollar drops, oil and commodity price...

Chris Ciovacco in SafeHaven today reads the historical charts and concludes that recent multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts are slightly bul...

Two most interesting blog articles by the jokily-pseudonym-ed "Lord Higham-Johnson". The posts themselves are far from jocular and...

"I warn you, Sir! The discourtesy of this bank is beyond all limits. One word more and I—I withdraw my overdraft." ( Punch, June...