From Zerohedge Patrick Byrne the ex-CEO of Overstock sold his entire holding of stock totaling 90 million dollars. What did he do with the money? "...after paying tens of millions in taxes (after all, “We didn’t build that,” right?) by Friday the rest will be in...
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Today’s Federal Reserve Rate Cut Marks The Start Of A New Financial Era
by Mike Swanson | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Today before the open you know that the Federal Reserve is going to do an interest rate cut today, because this has been the most anticipated and talked about Federal Reserve rate cut perhaps in our lifetime. The last Federal Reserve rate cut happened in 2008. That...

Episode 292: How can the Government Afford to do the Things it Does?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 31, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
68 Minutes Pg-13 Pete recently wrote an article for the Libertarian Institute (where he is now the managing editor) about how the US government going off the Gold Standard allows them to do the worst things they do (war, etc.). Mr Pseu of the "A Boy Named Pseu"...
Two Reasons the ‘Gold Standard’ Had to Go
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
When one brings up the “Gold Standard” in discussion nowadays it’s almost treated as quaint. “Oh, I remember reading about that, that was a different time,” or, “Do you know how much “wealth” has been created since we abandoned that dinosaur?” And that’s just with the...
Department of Propaganda guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 17, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Mike Maharrey returns to FPF to discuss further fallout from his appearance on RT. Polygraph.Info, the "fact-checking" wing of Voice of America, ran an article "debunking" Mike's analysis on SWIFT. Mike correctly argues that the US exercises control over SWIFT to wage...
When Will Silver Breakout Like the Gold Price Chart Did In June?
by Mike Swanson | Jul 15, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
In June the price of gold broke through the $1350 resistance level on the technical analysis chart. Silver has not yet broken out. Why? That is the question I talked about with David Morgan of themorgranreport.com. Like this video so that I know that you are here....
US Economic War Exposed by Russian Puppets guests Mike Maharrey and Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 4, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #371, Mike Maharrey and Will Porter return to the show for a discussion on US economic warfare. Mike recently appeared on RT to discuss how the US uses SWIFT to enforce sanctions. Will and Mike highlight the importance of SWIFT in the Americans Empire. The...
The US Dollar Index And The Deflation/Inflation Debate
by Mike Swanson | Jun 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
If you talk about the markets in any way like I do then you are going to get people telling you that you are wrong all of the time. Even though gold has been going up a lot of people out there still do not believe that the move is real. This is one such email I got: ”...
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
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