POST # 9     WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO GOLD? Recently Gold has dropped and one wonders what happened?  The inherent value is still there.   The answer lies in the fact that there is a massive margin call occurring.  Bernanke?s speech on a slowing of the QE caused the ...

One needs to understand that politics and markets always interact. Second, great economists such as Ricardo and Adam Smith knew this over a hundred years ago. They never used the term “economics” by itself but always in conjunction with “politics”. For this reason, they called their treatises, “Political Economy”. I ...

What is the Bonus for Killing Conservatives? This is a real question.  Consider the following – I wrote an article that is posted on my Blog, jpfinancialeducation.com, called, “An Analysis of Four Scandals – IRS, BENGHAZI, SEBELIUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTERS”.   At the time I did not know the person ...

 052813_Post 9_Notifying Readers of a New Article A New Article is on the Article Page An Analysis of 4 Scandals: IRS, Benghazi, Sebelius, Associated Press These four scandals are not an ordinary set. This set is the worst scandal since Watergate. They call to question the integrity of the entire ...

04/22/13The gold market incident on Friday, April 12, 2013, caused gold to drop $80 in 40 minutes which is an historic event. On Monday, margin calls in the futures market caused by stop orders required more settlement. On Monday, news rumors broke out that more countries need to “Sell more ...

The Cyprus situation was the first time the term Bail-Ins was used.  Basically, it is renamed Grand Theft.  If you or I took funds from private accounts without the owner’s approval, it would be called Grand Theft.  The bankers and the state needed money in Cyprus, so they concocted this ...

Public banking, as used here, refers to banks owned by the people through their Federal or State governments.  Since 1913, the US has had a private central banking system controlled by a banking cartel (mostly European ownership) called the Federal Reserve Bank.  For details on how this came about and ...

I do not believe that North Korea is a threat to America.  On the other hand, it is being used by our government as one.  Why?  My belief is that North Korea provides an excuse / air cover for us to create another war zone to throw men and equipment ...

My article #3 on this Blog, America?s National Debt, What It Means for Investors, provides a background and context to understand the significant financial events in Cyprus. It also discusses the Cyprus banks actual financial constraints placed on its depositors. In effect, the Cyprus government and its banks folded to ...

China and Japan hyperinflation   This Blog is about the investment environment that I define as Geopolitics and Economics.  The Geopolitics of Japan affects the investment environment of those in the United States.  How so?  Let’s look. First, the Japanese government has just announced that they will be in lockstep ...