THE DOLLAR VIGILANTE BLOG

We had the opportunity to interview anarcho-capitalist, James Turk, of Goldmoney.com this week where we discussed many issues related to gold and silver and how they have moved lower in US dollar terms despite seemingly higher demand and Greece risk. It was a very insightful interview that covered a number of other topics including bitcoin,…

Jeff interviews conspiracy fact seeker, artist and musician, Ole Dammegard, topics include: the importance of non-violence during total fearless exposure of what's going on, the term conspiracy theorist used to undermine truth seekers in public opinion, exposing political assassins, high profile assassinations perpetrated by the same team of assassins, 9/11, the political usefulness of false…

As readers know, we've been expecting a lot of craziness to occur in financial, economic and political systems… and we'll be putting out a video elaborating on our predictions in the next few days. But, it looks like we're on the mark. Much of what happened recently may have just been coincidence, but it does…

The NYSE has just halted all trading.  This comes at a very interesting time with the China stock market collapse and half of all Chinese public companies halted in China.  As well, the Greece situation continues to be precarious. We will have more news soon if this is all related or if it is just…

Greece has provided us with an excellent real-life monetary experiment in the past week. The price action in gold, silver and bitcoin is illuminating to say the least. Greek banks are now shuttered with no end in sight. If we watch the movement of non central banking money, we have the opportunity to observe how…

Jeff interviews Scott Horton, host of Antiwar Radio, assistant editor at Antiwar.com and host of The Scott Horton Show, topics include: the origins of ISIS, the Arab spring, the role of the US, Libya, Egypt, Al Qaeda, Syria, misinformation, George Bush, Barack Obama, Turkey, Israel, US policy made in Israel, Prince Bandar, Hamas, Palestine, Hezbollah,…

Yesterday, the Greek people emphatically said “enough is enough” of this ridiculous European Union system, central banking and governments going into massive debt to be paid for by tax slaves and yet-to-be-born tax slaves. Could it be that the birthplace of  democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, political science, medicine and mathematics will be the place…

CNBC reports: “A recent online poll of more than 2,000 adults by TransferWise, a peer-to-peer money transfer service based in the United Kingdom, revealed that 35 percent of American-born residents and emigrants would consider leaving the United States to live in another country.” This may come as quite a surprise to many patriotic Americans who…

Jeff interviews Libertarian party of Canada candidate and gold miner in Dawson City, Yukon, Todd Keller, topics include: what is anarchy? we don't require government, good parents breed good Anarchists, misunderstandings of Libertarianism, Libertarian pension plans, gold vs Wall St. derivatives, taxing the ‘rich', the gold mining business, the outdoor lifestyle, Northern Canada still a…

So far, in Greece, the hardest hit have been pensioners. As Bloomberg reports, “On the third day of capital controls, a few dozen pensioners lined up by 7 a.m. at a central Athens branch of the National Bank of Greece, an hour before opening time. They were to receive a maximum of 120 euros ($133),…

And so it begins … Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced that all banks and the stock market will be shuttered on Monday after panic gripped the country. The Greek Financial “Stability” Council have recommended that the banks stay shut for a total of six days. This is all in prelude to a Greek referendum…

The Dollar Vigilante began in 2010, just a few months after Greece's last government debt crisis.  That crisis was “solved” by putting a bankrupt country into more debt.  We commented at the time that not only did that not actually fix the problem but it just made it worse. At the time, we commented that…

Jeff interviews chartered accountant and successful entrepreneur Chris Horlacher, topics include: Equibit, digital scarcity new to the internet and opens up amazing possibilities, reinventing the securities industry, billions of dollars going back into the pockets of investors, stock exchange is a market maker, Equibit makes the trades available ‘over the counter', unforgable security, Equibit open…

Whenever you see US citizens losing their minds over something as silly as a flag, I've learned to look at what's being passed by Congress at the same time. Statist flag worshipers were in a frenzy about a piece of colored cloth called the Confederate flag because a man with that flag on his bumper…

One of the ways that our commentary adds value for subscribers (and readers generally) is via personal reactions to international events. I travel a lot for just this reason; recently I decided to see what was really going on at the G7 and Bilderberg conferences. It was earlier this month and it just so happened…

Jeff interviews CEO of EasyDNS Mark Jeftovic, topics include: avoiding your site being shutdown by the government, Mark running for the Libertarian Party of Canada, the greatly overlooked importance of DNS hosting, domain policy, UN attempts at control over the internet, ICANN, NTIIA, the complexity of jurisdiction issues, Verisign, moving your registrar, offshore servers, mail…

[The following post is by TDV Offshore Director, Paul Seymour] Hello again from Brazil.  I just got back down here from a whirlwind tour back to my home of Colombia.  Amazing flight.  The jet droned for at least three hours, at 500+ miles per hour, over nothing but forest.  My first view of the Amazonia.…