Via Brendan Brown of The Mises Institute,
Yellen, like notorious previous Fed chiefs including Strong, Martin, and Greenspan, can now claim success in having prolonged and strengthened an asset price inflation which otherwise may well have been about to enter its severe end phase. If history is any guide, the result of that success is to be feared.
The CEO of Assurant appeared on Bloomberg TV to explain why demand for his services is likely to increase: the chief executive of the mobile phone insurer said he expects a surge in demand as carriers charge customers more to replace their devices. “If you think back five years ago, you as a consumer didn’t know how much that phone cost, you thought it was free or close to free,” Assurant's Alan Colberg said Monday. “Now you’re paying $600, that’s a lot.
Via Ron Paul of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver.
Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a precious metal limits the ability of central banks to finance the growth of the welfare-warfare state via the inflation tax. This forces politicians to finance big government much more with direct means of taxation.
Via Howard Kunstler of Kunstler.com,
Halloween’s coming super-early this year and it will be a shocking surprise to those currently busy looking for Russians behind every potted plant in Washington DC. First, accept the premise that your country has lost its mind.
It's not just the Obamas that are moving into swanky mansions across Washington D.C.. This last weekend saw two $12-million-plus homes sold in the D.C. area with realtors noting "Trump's bringing people from outside a local market...and they’re coming from a much more expensive market."
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is the buyer who shelled out $12.6 million for a nine-bedroom home overlooking Rock Creek Park.