Live Free Or Die: Capitalism At Risk

Axel Merk Merk Hard Currency Fund Jan 14, 2009 The Federal Reserve (Fed) has gone beyond playing with fire, and may have indeed set the house on fire. It’s one thing to push interest rates to near zero to stimulate the economy; it’s another to...

Where’s my radio bailout?

The so-called Fairness Doctrine has asserted itself into the public eye recently, some 20+ years after the Reagan administration abolished it. Seems like just another in the long line of recent bailouts. Let’s call it the Radio Bailout Doctrine. The Doctrine was...

Mr. Chavez, are you listening?

The drums of nationalization are beating more loudly in the United States today. Unless my eyes and ears deceive me, the Feds are discussing increasing their stake in Citigroup, the 3rd largest bank in the United States (by assets) to a free market cringing level of...
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