THE DOLLAR VIGILANTE BLOG
G7, Bilderberg, Liberland, Cyprus … My Euro Trip Wrap-Up
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…
Read MoreAnarchast Ep. 223 Mark Jeftovic: Decentralizing The Internet and DNS!
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…
Read MoreInternationalization: How to Get Started Down the Road to Freedom
[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.…
Read MoreIndia's Government Wants People To Hold Paper, Not Gold
[The following post is by TDV Lead Researcher, Justin O'Connell] India is looking to issue sovereign bonds linked to the bullion price so as to decrease the estimated 300 tonnes of annual demand for gold bars and coins, thus reducing bullion imports and decreasing the trade deficit. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue the…
Read MoreMass Exodus From Greek Banking System As Country Nears Default Spikes Interest In Precious Metals, Bitcoin
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] The current situation in Greece is coming down to the wire, with Greece having less than 15 days to pay more than $1 billion in debt repayments to its international creditors. The prospect of a Greece default has led European leaders to prepare contingency plans and…
Read MoreLetting Go, Living With Purpose & Defending Freedom With Luke Rudkowski & Dan Dicks
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] I have been in Europe now for two weeks and have doing my best to maintain the blog but I haven't had time to properly put down my thoughts on what I have experienced at G7 and Bilderberg so I've been commenting on international stories as…
Read MoreBush Vs. Clinton 2016: Election In A Vassal State
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] The United States is an oligarchy. That is what the government's own academic institutions are saying, as well. This cannot be spelled out any more clearly than by yesterday's events: both Jeb Bush, the recent in a long line of high politicians of the Bush family…
Read MoreFATCA: Vatican & US Government Partner To Extort Americans
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] “Thou shalt not steal.” This long-standing commandment is merely a meddlesome detail, apparently, as the Vatican and the US government are teaming up to extort Americans of their hard-earned money. The US government and the Vatican make great bedfellows, considering each has a long history of…
Read MoreTexas Gets Gold & Silver Depository After Governor Signs Law Into Law – TDV Week In Review, June 14, 2015
On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill establishing the nation's first state-level gold depository. This could be an important stepping stone along the way towards making gold and silver oft used legal tender in Texas. As Jeff Berwick wrote here at TDV on the bill: Texas has moved to repatriate its gold as…
Read MoreA Journalist Under Martial Law
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] Police are everywhere. My ID has been checked more times than I can remember. This is a police state, and the number one suspects are journalists. Charlie Skelton's account of police in his hotel room going through his things while in his nude then taking him…
Read MoreG7 is a Show – The Real Deal Is At Bilderberg
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] Just like with anything in life you never really know what is going on until you see it with your own eyes. I described last weekend how the G7 was so different from what I expected. They should just call the G7 a big party for…
Read MoreCartier Owner Warns Fellow Super Rich They Can't Take All The Spoils
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] Many super rich individuals have spoken up about problems in the global economy. Johann Rupert, the owner of Cartier Jewelry and Chloe fashion worth approximately $7.5 billion (according to Bloomberg), is merely one of the many who have warned about the very same economic crises we here at…
Read MoreG7 Pledges To End Fossil Fuel Use While Crushing Alternatives
[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick] One of my favorite topics to write about is how government people do not understand economy and thus any efforts they make to “regulate” it for “the greater good” turn into epic failures that end up further impoverishing people all over the globe. Nearly all of…
Read MoreThe G7 Is a Gigantic Waste of Money – The Weekend Vigilante June 6, 2015
Hello from Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, The seven most indebted countries in the world decided to descend upon this scenic Bavarian town and take it over for the weekend. And when I say take it over, I mean take it over! Inside sources say that there are 38,000 police in town this weekend in this sleepy mountain…
Read MoreTDV Week In Review, June 7, 2015
In the TDV Newsletter, actionable advice helps readers create game plans to survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI). This week, TDV looks into BitGold and its prospects for growth and success. Jeff Berwick looks into coming false flags and terrorists attacks, while Ed Bugos looks at recent TDV gold…
Read MoreThe End Of The Monetary System As We Know It Is Here: No More Retail Gold In Europe
[The following post written by TDV Editor In Chief, Jeff Berwick] I've been in Europe a couple of days now and one of my main goals here, other than protesting the G7, Bilderberg and visiting Liberland, was to find out if what Martin Armstrong wrote about – that there is a shortage of gold at…
Read MoreAnarchast: Sieg Pedde: The Rise of Libertarianism!
Jeff interviews the founder of the Libertarian Party of Canada, Sieg Pedde, topics include: Sieg announces his intention to run again for the first time since 1974! the party still alive after 40 years and is bigger than ever, the people are looking for a fresh alternative, rising awareness, ballooning national debt, getting prepared for…
Read MoreAnarchast: Max Borders: Voice and Exit – Creating & Making Old Systems Obsolete
Jeff interviews author, entrepreneur and visionary Max Borders, topics include: the Voice and Exit conference on June 20th – 21st, anarchists getting involved in politics, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Freeman Magazine Jeffrey Tucker, Sheldon Richmond, Anarchapulco 2016, techno-agorism, Bitcoin, the inequality fetish, voluntary compassion for the poor, entrepreneurship and innovation to help the…
Read MoreNothing Changed At The NSA: The Freedom Act Is The New Patriot Act
[The following post is by TDV Editor In Chief, Jeff Berwick] Politics itself is mostly a big show to distract the masses. Even if you can get a real libertarian or anarchist into government to gum things up for a few hours or days there is usually an army of bureaucrats there to do the…
Read MoreHollywood Celebrity Vince Vaughn Goes Against Hollywood and For Liberty
[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick] Some people ask me if it will be decades before libertarian thought goes wildly mainstream. I usually have to feign a cough as I try to tell them, “No, we are talking days or weeks now… not months, not years and certainly not decades”. I…
Read MoreJohn Nash Hated Keynesians
[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick] John Forbes Nash Jr., the Princeton University mathematician who inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind,” died on May 23rd in a New Jersey car crash. While we always look at things critically, and are aware that he had said he was just days away from releasing…
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