Markets Total Collapse Peter Schiff on FoxBusiness

Peter Schiff gets a little more blunt in this video. He states “the government is manufacturing these numbers”. 
Peter Schiff is asked point blank on how far the Dow will drop. Peter hesitates, but then explains that it also depends on what the dollar will be worth. His answer for me makes [...]

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Lying Is A Sign Of An Evolved Brain

I found a perfect encore to my recent reference to the scandalous ponzi scam of Bernard Madoff: Natalie Angier of the New York Times recently described evidence that deceitful behaviour is a product of evolution:
Deceitful behavior has a long and storied history in the evolution of social life, and the more sophisticated the animal, it seems, [...]

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A Toast To Darwin

British anthropologist Desmond Morris recently paid an essay tribute to Charles Darwin, who coined the theory of evolution by natural selection. An excerpt from his essay on the DailyMail which I recommend you read for greater appreciation of Darwin:
What kind of a man was Charles Darwin? To the naive mind he is sometimes pictured as [...]

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Comfort vs. Truth

Found a great reflection by orDover on reconciling the idea of death and what happens after death (e.g. heaven, hell, life after death) from a religious and atheistic perspective.
An excerpt from his post:
Heaven is a romantic fantasy indeed. But I have to wonder, why does Wolstenholme stop there? Wouldn’t it be equally as comforting to [...]

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Mortgage Reform?

In this clip, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute and Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital explain why the new mortgage reform bill wil hurt housing market and economy. The discussion hints at restrictive regulations in the wake of irresponsible actions of the U.S. government.
Government intervention is contrary to the principles of free market [...]

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Is The Government Spending Your Money Wisely?

An interesting panel: Peter Schiff author of “Crash Proof”, Dr. Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute, Victoria Barrett associate editor for Forbes Magazine, and Gary Kaltbaum of garyk.com. The panel criticizes the actions of the U.S. government, Federal Reserve, and discusses the future of the economy.
Watch Peter Schiff plug in Ron Paul and Yaron Brook [...]

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Liberate The Economy, Not Stimulate

The Ayn Rand Institute is an organization which provides material on the author Ayn Rand’s works and philosophy: Objectivism. Dr. Yaron Brook is part of the Ayn Rand Institute and along with his Objectivitst colleagues, a vocal critic of the U.S. government’s actions to date in response to the economic crisis.

Dr. Yaron [...]

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Jim Rogers on Solution to Crisis

According to Jim Rogers in this video, the Japanese had a similar bailout scenario 18 years ago. The Japanese government refused to let Japanese businesses fail and Alan Greenspan had advised them to let the businesses fail. Why aren’t the Americans following Greenspan’s advice now?
Betty then asks if there is [...]

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Jim Rogers: ‘Getting out of U.S. dollars’ (12.15.08)

Is it really time to get out of the U.S. dollar?

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Peter Schiff: The Dollar is Now Dropping Like a Stone

Remember the guy who was right on the housing bubble? The guy who predicted this crisis as far as two years ago. Until recently he was basically correct on just about everything except two things. He claimed gold would rise and the dollar will crash. Both had not happened until now. 
Here [...]

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