Economic Rant

February 01, 2012

The New York Times article quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov as saying the consequences of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be "extremely grave", triggering "a chain reaction, and I don't know where it will stop."[More]

January 15, 2012

The NDAA National Defense Authorization Act is now law. You can be locked up for the rest of your life without charges, without a hearing, without a lawyer, without anything at all but suspicion. It’s not that bad in [More]

January 01, 2012

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -Cicero, 55 BC. Folks, Ci...... [More]

December 15, 2011

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Joh...... [More]

December 01, 2011

PATRIOTISM IS NOT LOYALY TO THE GOVERNMENT

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November 16, 2011

You must buy silver bullion and hold it yourself. No storage programs. The executives at Goldline were just arrested for massive fraud. Remember Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and all the other pseudo-conservatives were telling you to buy from Goldline. They personally buy from Goldline. They sell the same ba...... [More]

November 01, 2011

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable...H.L. Mencken[More]

October 17, 2011

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries[More]

October 02, 2011

On Monday October 3 silver will be $30. Buy all you can.

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September 15, 2011

PLEASE GO WATCH THIS 9/11 VIDEO TO SEE 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB

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September 11, 2011

There is so much happening we are going to send out three newsletters in September.

 

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September 01, 2011

“Let it not be said that we did nothing.” –Ron Paul

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August 15, 2011

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five y...... [More]

August 01, 2011

On July 18 CNBC was forced to admit that gold and silver were rocketing higher and higher. So, what did they do? They brought on morons who said that gold and silver were, “not good long term investments”. Well, if gold and silver are not good long term investments, then pl...... [More]

July 17, 2011

"The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth." … Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Alan Blinder, Nightly Business Report, 1994

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July 01, 2011

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. [More]

June 16, 2011

Look at this 50 year chart of the real money supply, courtesy of the Mises Institute. Things were reasonable sane 50 years ago. Now things are completely insane. “Money” is just green toilet paper, unbacked by anything other than mass...... [More]

June 01, 2011

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a w...... [More]

May 17, 2011

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." ... Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

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May 02, 2011


"Good Judgment is usually the result of experience, and experience frequently the result of bad judgment." ... Robert Lovett

 

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April 16, 2011

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.  John Quincy Adams

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April 01, 2011

The U.S. and world economies continue to worsen by the day. The violence in the Mideast also continues to worsen by the day. Now Syria is in flames. This puts us closer and closer all the time to World War III. Did you think World War II- over a half century ago- was the last world war? We ...... [More]

March 19, 2011

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value- ZERO.” Voltaire 1729

The real National Debt is not “14 trillion” as the government tells you. That would be payable, since the Gross National Product is 12 trillion. The REAL National Debt of unfunded liabilities is more like 140 trillion, or ten times what the government tells you. Just Google “real...... [More]

March 03, 2011


There has never been a situation in the history of the world so bad, so terrible, that the government couldn’t make ...... [More]

February 15, 2011

It is vital you understand that the future price of silver is CHEAPER than the spot price. This is called "backwardization". This has never happened in the history of the COMEX. Never. This means silver is so valuable people will pay MORE for it today than years down the road. Soon gold will also be in backwardization. What...... [More]

February 01, 2011

On January 20 we got the silver correction that was expected. This is NOT a disappointment at all- it is a buying opportunity. Buy and hold and add on dips. Silver went from $18 to $31 with no significant correction. This is called a "weak market". This correction made it a strong market. On Friday the 28th silver we...... [More]

January 23, 2011

THE WHEELS COME OFF THE TRAIN THIS YEAR!!!

 

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January 11, 2011

The average man doesn't want to be free; he wants to be safe. H.L. Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore, said this in 1926.

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December 15, 2010

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. G. K. Chesterton 

 

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December 01, 2010

Nothing has changed in Congress after a few pseudo-conservative Republicans were elected to the House. Business as usual. Same old one party Republicrats. Senate bill S-510, the Food “Safety” Act, passed 73 to 25! Almost every Democrat, and an entire group of Republicans, was behind it. You have no idea how bad this bill is. Google “S-510” and learn more. This bill will put small farmers out of bu...... [More]

November 15, 2010

American is the worst police state in the entire world, even worse than North Korea.

 

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November 01, 2010

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." — H. L. Mencken

If you want to vote for the Lesser of Two Evils on Tuesday go right ah...... [More]

October 15, 2010

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October 03, 2010

The American standard of living was the highest in the world, by far, due to our mostly free market economy. This will fall by 50% in the next five years. The American standard of living will be literally cut in half. The party is over, the punch bowl is empty, and the dru...... [More]

September 16, 2010

The above chart shows how the Dow Jones Industrial (blue line) and Dow Jones Transportation (green line) are doing. Dow Theory works folks. Dow Theory says that The DJI and DJT move together up or down to show a valid trend. Obviously both are doing badly and...... [More]

September 02, 2010

THE AMERICAN STANDARD OF LIVING WILL BE CUT IN HALF!!! We will be just another Third World banana republic without the bananas. This is going to happen in the next 10 years. Your stand...... [More]

August 16, 2010

If you still think we have a two party system in this country please look at the above chart.

Carter (not on chart) far ou...... [More]

August 02, 2010

"The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing. Home sales are down. Retail sales are down. Factory orders in May suffered their biggest tum...... [More]

July 17, 2010

 

HYPERINFLATION IS YOUR FUTURE! Please go to the website www.inflation.us[More]

July 08, 2010

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle...... [More]

June 15, 2010

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. <...... [More]

June 02, 2010

 
 

Other presidents get the picture on paper currency. Obama should have his picture on food stamps. There are now 40 million Americans who choose to have the gover...... [More]

May 23, 2010

Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 29 that should the federal government ever turn despotic it "can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms." If every Ameri...... [More]

May 01, 2010

Back in 1970 you could buy about three gallons of gasoline with a dollar bill or a silver dollar. Anyone could get a silver dollar for a paper dollar. Today you can buy about five gallons of gasoline with a silver dollar, but you can only buy one third of one gallon wit...... [More]

April 15, 2010

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April 01, 2010

Q: If Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Schumer were all in a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved first?

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March 16, 2010

Back up the truck and buy all the silver bullion you can. Yes, silver stocks are a wonde...... [More]

March 01, 2010

One cannot pick tops and bottoms and short term forecasting is for fools. Nevertheless, one has to do their best to see overall bottoms and tops.We feel silver has bottomed at the $16 level and it’s time to back up the truck. It just does not matter if you buy silver at $14, $16, or...... [More]

February 15, 2010

America has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prison inmates! We’re the worst police state in the world. Even Myanmar (Burma), Cuba, Russia, China, and North Korea don’t even begin to lock up people like we do you thought it was b...... [More]

February 01, 2010

Sell your IRA or 401k or lose your life savings!

The government is going to change these into “annuities” and base them on worthless Treasury paper ...... [More]

January 17, 2010

Look at the chart below if you think there is any hope at all for this country. For the first time in the history of the U.S. we have more government employees than real workers who produce real goods. Every co...... [More]

January 03, 2010

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December 16, 2009

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.   <...... [More]

December 02, 2009

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty teeth.” [More]

November 01, 2009

"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value, ZERO" - Voltaire (1729)

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October 15, 2009

The Big Threat is still the made up war on Iran. The American public is against the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, and any future wars in Pakistan, Iran, Syria o...... [More]

October 02, 2009

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable"...... [More]

September 15, 2009

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September 10, 2009

www.economicrant.com Emergency Sept. 8 Rant -Roger Mason It is Tuesday, September 8, 2009. Silver and gold may have made short term tops at $16.80 and $1,008 respectively. They should correct dramatically and very temporarily. The commercials are massively short both silver and gold with 77,000 silver contracts alone. That is one third of a billion ounces! Th...... [More]

September 01, 2009

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August 15, 2009

Want proof the U.S. is the leading police state in the world far more citizens incarcerated than Cuba, Russia, Red China, and other communist police states? Here it is.....


 

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July 15, 2009

 

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom - it will be because we destroyed ourselves!" (Abraham Lincoln). 

Lincoln was right, and we have destroyed ourselves with no help from Russia or China.

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July 01, 2009

 

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America, the U.S.S.A. Chains you can believe in. Don't deny it, don't say these are just figures of speech. The majority of brain dead Americans freely chose an avowed, openly Marxist president in a pitiful attempt to get something for nothing. All socialism is nothing but a transparent attempt to ...... [More]

June 15, 2009

 

"Of all the contrivances devised for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes him with paper money"... Daniel Webster 

The house is trying to pass HR 2454 The American Clean Energy and Safety (ACES) Act. This would further destroy our economy using the...... [More]

June 01, 2009

 

"When the people fear the government we have tyranny. When the government fears the people we have liberty." -Thomas Jefferson 

Every day the entire economy gets worse while the media tries to sugar coat the situation. CNBC is the worst with their eternal good news and endless lies. This i...... [More]

May 15, 2009

 

"I believe that all government is inherently evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time." -H.L. Mencken

The economic situation worldwide continues to deteriorate. Parade Magazine has a readership of 73 million. It is the mostly widely read magazine in America. Their lead article for May 3 is "Is the...... [More]

May 01, 2009

 

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America, the U.S.S.A. Chains you can believe in. Obama wrote a book, The Audacity of Hope. Hope is for dopes. Hope is the last re- fuge of fools. Faith will move mountains, but hope just wastes your time. The media wants you to believe...... [More]

April 15, 2009

 

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up all around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on ...... [More]

April 01, 2009

 

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberal-ism” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist P...... [More]

March 15, 2009

 

We have given AIG over $130 billion dollars so far. It only takes them six months to lose that much and ask for more. AIG just gave $100 million dollars of YOUR tax money to the very executives who ran it into the ground. They want more and they'll get it. They are giving this money to major bankrupt banks. Where is the outrage? What the hell is going on? Why not let...... [More]

March 01, 2009

 

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth. For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to prepare for it." -Patrick Henry

Welcome to the USSA, the United Socialist States of America. We have a hardcore Marxist president and a socialist congress. ...... [More]

February 15, 2009

 

In the last rant we said there were three very negative “signs” at the Presidential Inaug-uration. The oath wasn’t given correctly and had to be redone, the Bible was not used, and the DOW fell over 330 points. Actually there was a fourth very negative sign. For the first time in American h...... [More]

February 01, 2009

 

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of lib-eralism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a sociali...... [More]

January 15, 2009

 

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -Thomas Jefferson 

The people who voted for poverty and slavery under Obama are weak minded. They want the government to "take care of them". They don't want ...... [More]

January 01, 2009

 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those would would not." -Thomas Jefferson 

   Welcome to 2009. This is going to be a horrible year for the lemmings, but a wonderful year for intelligent people who are invested in silver and even gold. Twelve states are broke, twenty ...... [More]

December 15, 2008

 

“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have communism.” –Nikita Kruschev, Premier of Russia 

Don’t kid yourselves, we have gone from a soc...... [More]

December 01, 2008

 

 

Every day the economy worsens, not just the U.S. economic situation, but the entire world. Ray Charles can see a worldwide depression is around the corner, and we’ve been in a worsening recession for a long time. This will make the Great Depression look like Club Med. The America standard of living will be cut in half. The current 14% ...... [More]

November 16, 2008

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  -Benjamin Franklin 

Well, America is officially a socialist country with no more pretense. The last bastion of freedom to fall. No, there are no free countries to go to...... [More]

November 01, 2008

 

Some of you are understandably dismayed at silver and gold falling so badly along with their mining stocks. Look at the Big Picture, and not the short term. Silver and gold are the only real money. You can only g...... [More]

October 16, 2008

The entire American economic system is collapsing by the day. If you can’t see that, you’re blind, and deserve what you get. The Much Greater Depression is about three years away, andevents are moving faster and faster all the time. This will make the Great Depression of 1929 look like a picnic. We will never recover from this one. We will ...... [More]

October 01, 2008

Do you have any doubts we are headed for the Much Greater Depression by 2011? Do you know what the real National Debt is? The REAL federal debt including Social Insecurity, Medicare, Medicaid and all the other socialist welfare programs is $100 trillion dollars. Who says so? No less than Richard Fischer, the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Can y...... [More]

September 16, 2008

Many of you bought silver stocks in the last year only to see the price drop dramatically.  The HUI (basket of unhedged gold and silver stocks)  fell from 480 to 280 already. Silver is very volatile, the current prices will turn around, and the HUI will go over...... [More]

September 01, 2008

The looming war in Iran is the most important event in the world, not the collapsing economy. We have over 40 various warships over there, and things could kick off in the morning or next year. Russian Duma Deputy Markov said this would happen, "before the election". Rusian President Medvedev met with President Ahmadeinejad last month and promised Iran a sophisti...... [More]

August 16, 2008

The fundamentals for silver (and gold) are better than ever. Some of you are concerned that your silver stocks have not done well in the last eight months. Take a good look at this chart. The “HUI” (basket of unhedged gold and silver stocks) always correlates with the price of gold and silver in the long term. A silver vs HUI cha...... [More]

August 01, 2008

The looming Iran war is the most important event in the world, even though we simply do no...... [More]

July 16, 2008

Iran is the most important event for you to be concerned about now. The crashing economy is very secondary to our coming attack on Iran. Iraq was the worst mistake the U.S. ever made, but this will be far, far worse than that. It isn't the $15 gasoline (and $300 fill ups), but the fact an America city will be vaporized. Or multi...... [More]

July 01, 2008

Tired of $4 gas, headed to $5? Have you gone to www.americansolutions.com and signed the Drill Here, Drill Now petition? It only takes about 60 second...... [More]

June 15, 2008

"The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe."



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The most important event of all is the continuing housing crash in this country. The housing crash is just warming up, and has a long, long way to go. We have a full year backlog of unsold homes, and home sales fall every month. Did you know the Peoples Republic of California ha...... [More]

June 02, 2008

The Ron Paul March on Washington is (Saturday) July 12. Please do whatever you have to do and be there. Go to www.revolutionmarch.com to learn more. Are you tired of high taxes, big government, open borders, expensive gasoline, a police state, NAFTA, illegal aliens, the Iraq war, the loss of our Constitution and Bill of Rights? Then please show up i...... [More]

May 15, 2008

The housing collapse has just begun, just gotten started. This is the nail in the coffin for The American Dream. Eli Broad co-founded KB Homes (the 5th largest home builder). He said on Bloomberg TV that we're, "not anywhere near a bottom." Robert Shiller, the co-founder of the Case-Shiller Home Index said the same thing. A CEO of Freddie Mac said we have 2/3 to go! One half of people who bough...... [More]

April 30, 2008

Every month the U.S. economy comes closer to a real depression after 80 years. You will see the Much Greater Depression by 2010. Let's look at some of the major retailers (with real avera...... [More]

April 15, 2008

After 232 years the American Dream is over folks. In the 1780's Alexander Tyler wrote, "A democracy is always temporary in nature lasting on average 225 years and cannot exist as a permanent form of government." The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights have been gutted. We almost elected an openly Mar...... [More]

April 01, 2008

The entire world economy is coming apart at the seams. The Much Greater Depression looms closer every day. Only 1 in 10 U.S. jobs manufac...... [More]

March 18, 2008

The entire American economy is falling apart at the seams folks. The Much Greater Depression looms closer every day. We're already in a recession, and have been for months now. The American Way of Li...... [More]

March 01, 2008

The housing collapse is just warming up folks. Commercial real estate is crashing as well. You will see houses sell for a quarter on the dollar based on summer 2005 peak prices. Moody's says 1 in 10 households are under water" and will lose their homes. This will take down the stock market. 2008 is go...... [More]

February 15, 2008

The U.S. economic situation worsens by the day. We are the biggest debtor nation in the world; we are the biggest debtor nation in histor...... [More]

January 15, 2008

Gold and silver keep rocketing to Mars and beyond. Gold and silver are the ONLY real money authorized by our Constitution. The U.S. dollar keeps falling to oblivion, and is now a mere 76 cents on the U.S. dollar index basket of currencies. There are no good currencies on the face of the earth anymore-...... [More]

January 01, 2008

Inflation will be they key in 2008. Currently we have 15% true inflation, while the Fed lowers interest rates to 3%. This is insane of course. You cannot print counterfeit money while lowering interest rates. This makes everything worse in the end. Even George Soros and Warren Buffet said the U.S. do...... [More]

January 01, 2008

The economic situation in the U.S. and the rest of the entire world continues to deteriorate by the day. You certainly won't hear this on TV, radio, newspapers or maga...... [More]

December 18, 2007

The economic situation continues to worsen not only in the U.S., but the whole world. We''re already in a recession. Don't wait for a rec...... [More]

December 03, 2007

Every month the world economic situation just gets worse. The biggest banks such as Merrill Lynch, Citibank, and Bank of America are closer to going under from the bad mortgages they wrote. Citigroup owes more than they are worth! The CEOs of all these banks sold their stock long ago. Fanny Mae and Fr...... [More]

November 19, 2007

Every day the economic situation in America- and the world- gets worse. Look at the prices you pay for everything go up each time you go ...... [More]

November 01, 2007

Things only get worse every week in this country. New problems keep arising. The U.S. Dollar is in freefall. You simply cannot hold assets denominated in dollars. The government claims we have less than 3% inflation when it is almost 15%- and may be going up. The M3 (money being printed) figures are n...... [More]

October 23, 2007

The most important thing to know right now is that the U.S. Dollar is hopelessly in freefall. The dollar is useless and everything denominated in dollars is equally useless. We now have 14.7% actual inflation as proven by configured M3 money printing statistics (M3 is no longer printed in order to hid...... [More]

October 07, 2007

The situation has worsened badly since the last rant. Silver and gold are up strongly. Every month the economic problems get worse in the U.S. The Fed lowering intere...... [More]

September 08, 2007

Welcome to the first monthly issue of the Young Again Economic Rant. We want our
customers to be financially secure and affluent as well as healthy and happy. It is September 3,and the stock market is about 13,000. Gold is about $670 and silver about $12.

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