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Why Personal Privacy is Now Public Enemy #1

Joel Bowman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:08:50 +0000

Yes…he’s probably listening… We’d prefer to invite you to a quieter place, Fellow Reckoner…somewhere we could talk in private. A speakeasy, perhaps. Somewhere off the radar. Alas, that’s becoming increasingly difficult. In fact, according to recruitment propaganda handed out by the FBI and the Department of Justice to Internet cafe owners across the country, a [...]

Why Personal Privacy is Now Public Enemy #1 originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

How Piracy Works Against an Unnatural Monopoly

Joel Bowman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:41:57 +0000

What the market giveth, the state rises to taketh away. One of the more striking features of this whole modern spectacle must surely be the stark contrast between the state and the free markets that exist stubbornly, gloriously, in spite of its best efforts. Wherever evidence presents itself, it appears to do so with the [...]

How Piracy Works Against an Unnatural Monopoly originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Taking Back Habeas Corpus

Addison Wiggin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:08:28 +0000

“I’m a little Ron Paulish,” declared bond king Bill Gross to CNBC. Recall from yesterday’s 5 that in his monthly letter, Gross groused that near-zero interest rates would hamstring developed economies and even “give a rise to commodities and gold as store of value alternatives when there is little value left in paper.” In a [...]

Taking Back Habeas Corpus originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

The Speak-Easy Economy

Jeffrey Tucker — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:30:45 +0000

There’s a Mexican restaurant I like (I’m not saying where it is) that seems to thrive in good times and bad. It never has a shortage of servers, cooks and people to bus the tables, even when there are only a few customer cars out front. Actually, it is hard to tell the workers from [...]

The Speak-Easy Economy originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Persistent Questions About the Future of the US Economy

Bill Bonner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:39 +0000

We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past few months. Not much action in the markets yesterday, so let’s stop here and take stock. What we know so far… First, it was clear from the get-go that there was a bubble in finance and housing. The only people who couldn’t see it were the [...]

Persistent Questions About the Future of the US Economy originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Unattainable Government Goals

Bill Bonner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:25:23 +0000

Yesterday, investors digested the big news from Wednesday…the Fed’s announcement that it would continue handing out money, asking nothing in return, for the next three years. Stocks went down. Oil stayed under $100. The yield on the 10-year note fell under 2%. And gold just kept going up. The New York Times reported: The Fed [...]

Unattainable Government Goals originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Obama’s Fairness Doctrine

Bill Bonner — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:37:18 +0000

“The US is going to hell,” we told the group at the Watergate last night. “You mean the economy is really going to get worse, huh?” “No, I mean it’s going to hell.” We had been invited to watch the State of the Union address with a group of dinosaurs…a group approaching extinction with dignity [...]

Obama’s Fairness Doctrine originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Knowing Your Role as an Obedient Citizen

Joel Bowman — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:11:50 +0000

We can see them there, huddled under cover of night, assembled in the darkened corners of dimly-lit bars, conversing in hushed tones, eyes darting nervously, wondering who among them might turn coat. Which man here conceals a Ministry badge? Do I hide one myself? Dare I even ask? How their hands do tremble. How their [...]

Knowing Your Role as an Obedient Citizen originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Getting out of Dodge, Part II

Doug Casey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:45:22 +0000

Doug: Stating that the US is turning into a police state when you started this conversation was quite accurate. You can see more and more videos spreading over the Internet, not just of police brutality, but demonstrating the militarization and federalization of police, who are being inculcated with both disdain for and paranoia about ordinary [...]

Getting out of Dodge, Part II originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.

Power vs. People in the Digital Age

Jeffrey Tucker — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:33 +0000

The government seems determined to turn out the lights on the digital age. And this is with or without SOPA or the other bills that were only this week shouted down by the global digital community on Blackout Wednesday. The very next day after support for that legislation collapsed after an impressive mass protest, the [...]

Power vs. People in the Digital Age originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning. The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.