THE DOLLAR VIGILANTE BLOG

[The following post is by TDV Researcher, Justin O'Connell]

Approximately $4.8 million in gold bars were stolen Sunday from an armored truck traveling from Florida to Massachusetts on Interstate 95 by armed robbers, according to authorities. The theft took place in Attleboro, a small town largely secluded.

Two Transvalue Inc. security guards report pulling over to the side of the road 6:30pm Sunday after their armored truck had mechanical problems in Wilson County, according to the sheriff’s office.

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor Jeff Berwick]

We have been portending turbulent times ahead for our subscribers for some time now, and we have, over the years, been in increasingly good company. In 2009 when I started TDV, I was called crazy. Now my views have been adopted by mainstream personalities, even stewards of the world's fortunes agree with our outlook.

Lord Jacob Rothschild, 78 year-old banker and chairman of RIT Capital Partners,  sent a startling warning to savers in the  £2.3bn trust regarding the global situation and “the fragility of future returns.”

[The following post is by TDV Senior Analyst, Ed Bugos]

The world abandoned the system known as the gold standard in the thirties.  Nothing resembling it, or especially what the sound money crowd had in mind, would ever be seen again. 

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Justin O'Connell]

Amid depressed prices, there has been quite a bit of consolidation in the precious metals industry, affecting miners and even local coin shops.

A multi-year bull run ended in 2014, after $30 billion in debt had been taken on by gold miners. The miners which minimized their borrowing are now in a position to buy mines from rivals with weaker balance sheets, according to executives at the Investing In African Mining Indaba Conference in South Africa earlier this month, the biggest gathering of the sorts on the entire African continent.

[The following post is written by TDV Contributor, Justin O'Connell]

Originally appeared on GoldSilverBitcoin.

Although terms like “free market” are often used to describe modern life,  evidence of command-and-control markets keeps finding its way into headlines, most notably with Libor – the rigging of global interest rates (or the price of money) – shocking the world.

[The following post is an excerpt by TDV Senior Analyst Ed Bugos from the TDV Newsletter]

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable?" –Jefferson, Notes on State of Virginia, 1787

[The following interview is by Justin O'Connell & Ed Bugos]

[Editor's Note: Don't forget to keep up with Anarchapulco this week here.]

The following interview is by Justin O'Connell's GoldSilverBitcoin with The Dollar Vigilante's Ed Bugos. To receive more of Ed's insights, click here.  This article originally appeared on GoldSilverBitcoin.

TDV: Ed, thank you for taking time to do this! 

[The following interview by Justin O'Connell and Janina Lowisz]

The following interview was conducted by Bitcoinomics.Net with Janina Lowisz, the first "holder" of a "Blockchain ID," about the Blockchain ID, world citizenship and numerous other topics relating to the BlockchainID. 

What is a BlockchainID?

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

The end of the American empire is happening before our very eyes and it is astonishing how, among the preponderance of information, people still do not see the writing on the wall. Every day I am seeing stories that I consider signs of The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI).

In the Snowden leaks we learned that the NSA was spying on the SWIFT payment system, which led to Russia, and other nations, to develop their own alternative to the SWIFT system.

[The following interview is conducted by TDV Chief Editor Jeff Berwick]

[The following post is written by Director of TDV Offshore, Paul Seymour]

At TDV, we aren’t fans of holding a significant amount of your assets in fiat currencies.  However, as those holding the Swiss franc recently found out, as it rose 30% overnight, there is a time and place for everything.

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

I had barely just recovered from panicking over SARS, swine flu, ebola, ISIS and North Korea when another super-important crisis came on the scene that demands immediate attention!  The measles!

No, I'm not kidding.  Apparently this latest mainstream media panic is how measles is everywhere and if we all don't get immediately vaccinated we will all get the measles!  I guess, somehow, ebola morphed into the measles… what we really need is a vaccine for propaganda.

[The Following post is by TDV Correspondent, Justin O'Connell]

[The Following post is by TDV Correspondent, Justin O'Connell]

[The following post is by TDV Legal Correspondent, Jim Karger]

[The following post is by TDV Legal Correspondent, Jim Karger]

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Wendy McElroy]

Changes within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should  prompt you to reconsider the wisdom of crossing into or out of the United States. The TSA is slowly turning from counter-terrorism to criminal law enforcement, which will include the pursuit of tax violaters. And you may not be able to rely on the agency's notorious incompetence for much longer.   

Meet the New Sheriff. Not Quite like the Old

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Wendy McElroy]

Changes within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should  prompt you to reconsider the wisdom of crossing into or out of the United States. The TSA is slowly turning from counter-terrorism to criminal law enforcement, which will include the pursuit of tax violaters. And you may not be able to rely on the agency's notorious incompetence for much longer.   

Meet the New Sheriff. Not Quite like the Old

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

Some are heralding a possible “tax holiday” for overseas US corporations proposed by Barack O'bomber. The reality is many companies have found a way to arbitrage the tax code and create their own personalized tax holiday year-round thanks to clever planning, so they likely won't be repatriating their funds.

So what does the Lameduck King want?

[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick]

Some are heralding a possible “tax holiday” for overseas US corporations proposed by Barack O'bomber. The reality is many companies have found a way to arbitrage the tax code and create their own personalized tax holiday year-round thanks to clever planning, so they likely won't be repatriating their funds.

So what does the Lameduck King want?

[The following post is by TDV Contributor, Scott Freeman]