“College isn’t the place to go for ideas” – Helen Keller “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain In Part 3 of my critical thinking and education series, I am [...]

On July 25th, I provided a warning that gold and silver prices were NOT too expensive despite the propaganda of the commercial investment industry to the contrary, specifically for three reasons I outlined in the above linked article. We have just witnessed gold’s price move higher by $98 an ounce and silver’s price move higher [...]

I have stated this for many years now and I’ll continue to stand by this statement: Technical and fundamental analysis are of limited utility in predicting short-term trends in manipulated markets when analyzed in a vacuum absent of the context of government and bank manipulation. This not only applies to US stock markets but also [...]

No commentary necessary for the cartoon below. QE explained in such a brilliantly simplistic manner that even asleep-at-the-wheel Americans whose lives revolve around the NFL team they call god can understand what it is. Tweet

This is the third and final part of my three part educational series called “The Astounding Failure of the US Educational System”. Far too many people equate the pursuit of advanced educational degrees with intelligence and an increased likelihood of success. I know this is conventional thinking, but I highly disagree with this theorem. If [...]

Below is a 3-part video series in which I discuss how bankers have used the concept of ideological subversion to brainwash hundreds of millions of retail investors into accepting harmful propaganda that allows them to build their bottom line at the expense of the investors while simultaneously convincing investors to ignore alternate behavior that would [...]

In June 2007, Reuters reported the following story: Morgan Stanley will pay $4.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with brokerage clients who bought precious metals and paid storage fees, according to a court filing. The proposed settlement, which must be approved by the federal court in Manhattan, includes a cash component of $1.5 million [...]

Central Bankers always seem to do the wrong things at the wrong times in manners that hurt the citizens of their country in the maximum amount possible. Not only do they commit these mistakes, but they commit the same mistakes over and over and over again with the insane belief that executing the same mistake [...]

Despite the fact that nearly all of the macroeconomic trends I have predicted since 2006 on my blog, the Underground Investor, have come true, the percent of people that disagree with my predictions for 2010 and 2011 still outnumber those that agree by a factor of ten to one. There is a rational explanation why [...]

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Given the sheepherd’s tendency to want to see this rally continue, this article will likely not be very popular. However, before anyone should express indignation at the title of this article and ask if I am aware of the recent surge in global markets, note that whenever a large disconnect has existed between the reality [...]

We’ve moved the archives to the bottom of the page but they are still here. Of course you may always access the archives by clicking on the listed categories in the left hand column of this page as well. Learn the best ways to invest money during the developing dollar crisis, possible stock market crash, [...]

(Either JavaScript is not active or you are using an old version of Adobe Flash Player. Please install the newest Flash Player.) Below is a partial transcript of the above video: Congressman Brad Sherman: “Today, derivatives are being sold. And the buyers of the derivatives are looking at their counterparty and they’re saying, ‘well there [...]