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Category: What Jerry Thinks

August 1, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

“Last-Minute” U.S. Debt Deal – What to Expect Now

What a surprise! After the mainstream media forced you to watch hours upon hours of coverage on the staged debt ceiling “crisis,” Washington somehow found a way to save their own hides, and pull off a “last-minute” debt deal.
Here’s what to expect now…

July 13, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Want to Understand the Madness in Washington? Look at the Incentives

Washington continues to fail on a debt deal. The simple goal for Washington right now is to pass a deal that will reduce the deficit. Washington leaders only have one incentive: re-election.

June 13, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

My Recent Run-in with the Federal Reserve Police

Most Americans have no clue that the Federal Reserve is not part of the U.S. Federal government. But even fewer know that they have a machine-gun toting police force as well.

June 11, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Jerry Robinson Talks About the Consumption Trap on Financial Survival Radio

There will be no FTMWeekly Radio show this week as Jerry will be out of the office this weekend. In lieu of our regular weekly program, enjoy this recent interview with Jerry Robinson on Financial Survival Radio.

June 2, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

The Fed Is Going To Make You Beg

It helps if you think of the Fed as a drug pusher. Pushers don’t “market” their drugs. Instead, they rely upon the addicts to come crawling back for more. The Fed doesn’t need to push QE3 on the public. This would only bring more attention to its true intentions. Instead, the Fed will let the public demand it.

June 1, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Random Thoughts on the U.S. Economic “Recovery”

Stocks are getting hammered today after U.S. companies added fewer employees than forecast in May. Here are some of my random thoughts on the U.S. economic “recovery.”

May 31, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

5 Questions for Jerry Robinson: An Interview with FTMDaily’s Editor-in-Chief

Today, FTMDaily.com sits down with Jerry Robinson to ask him questions that every reader wants to know. From creating multiple streams of income, to the commodities markets, to Jerry’s outlook on the exciting future of FTMDaily.com, we have the scoop from the founder and editor-in-chief himself. Enjoy the interview!

May 11, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What a Hamburger Can Teach Us About the Coming Dollar Collapse

To help understand the faltering petrodollar system, I often use an illustration about a hamburger stand. Here it goes…

April 7, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Exclusive: A Special Q&A Session with Jerry Robinson

In lieu of our regular daily column, we present this very special and exclusive Q&A session with economist and FTMDaily.com Founder, Jerry Robinson. This Q&A session is an excerpt from the Winter 2011 issue of our FTMQuarterly newsletter released on January 15, 2011.

March 24, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Will the Euro Survive or Will the Euro Collapse?

Will the Euro survive? Or will the Euro collapse? There are a lot of questions swirling around the debt-ridden Eurozone. Before I tell you my thoughts, let’s take a brief look at how all of this mess got started.

February 12, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: Three Reasons Why Gold Will Go Higher in 2011

We get quite a steady stream of questions here at our organization about where I think gold prices are going to go both in the short term and in the long term… Right now, there are several analysts who are claiming that gold is in a bubble, or that gold is nearing its peak…

January 29, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Foreclosing the Faith: Are Church Foreclosures the Next Crisis?

One chilly Sunday morning, amid the height of the subprime crisis in early 2009, I found my way to a church service in the heart of the Midwest. The church, known as a “megachurch” and one of the largest in the region, was typical of most churches its size.

January 28, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

State of the Union: Four Absurd “Solutions” to America’s Debt Crisis

I must admit that as I sat down to watch the State of the Union address last night, I was more hopeful than usual that the President would at least propose a handful of ideas for effectively reducing our budget deficits and our collective national debt.

January 22, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: Destroying the Nations With Debt Slavery

A report was released by the World Economic Forum ahead of the organization’s high-profile annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which is scheduled for next weekend. According to the report the organization is claiming that the global economy will need access to an additional $103 trillion in “credit” to sustain normal economic growth.

January 20, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

The World Economic Forum Calls for More Global Debt Slavery

How will the creation of more “debt” help our debt-ridden global economy? It will not. However, it will directly benefit global financial institutions and the banking community… and that is what matters most these days. The more money they can lend, the more interest they can earn.

January 18, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

5 Reasons Why Silver Will Outshine Gold in the Long Run

Silver was the first metal to be used as a currency more than 4,000 years ago. For millennia, silver has been viewed by the world as a form of money and as a store of value.

January 7, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: Debt and Denial, Washington Style

On Wednesday, newly empowered House Republicans took the reins and opened the 112th Congress to a new era of divided government in the nation’s capitol. Images graced the pages of the print media showing former Speaker Nancy Pelosi handing the gavel, the symbol of power in the Congress, to the apparently humbled Speaker John Boehner.

January 5, 2011 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Another Sign of the Dollar Collapse: World Bank Issues First Yuan Bonds

While the yuan is still years away from being able to displace the dollar in global trade, it is inevitable that the U.S. dollar will continue its downward trend which will require the rise of other currencies. The two contenders to watch closely in the coming years are the euro and the yuan.

November 19, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: Stop the TSA!

What’s happening in our nation’s airports right now is quite simply mind-boggling.

November 2, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: Why Gold and Silver Will Go Up From Here

There seems to be a major disconnect in the financial world today about what drives the prices of hard assets. This ignorance has been displayed through some well intentioned financial “experts” who have gone on record saying that gold and silver prices are in a bubble and have reached their peak.

October 25, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: ‘Big Brother’ is Watching

A new report details the plans of the British government to record and store every email, every phone call, and every website visit of every British citizen who uses a telephone or the internet.

October 20, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Get Ready for Big Inflation

The Fed is attempting to create general expectations of inflation through its policy statements and actions.

October 4, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

What Jerry Thinks: On Ron Paul and Ending the Federal Reserve

This week, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul continued his tireless campaign to end the Federal Reserve. On Thursday, Dr. Paul was interviewed over at the Fox Business Network.

September 6, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

China’s Insatiable Demand for Gold

There is a sustained demand for precious metals growing in China. Some feel that the introduction of this new demand will create a new price floor

August 31, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Five Facts Every Investor in China Should Know

Money manager Puru Saxena joined me on the podcast last weekend from his office in Hong Kong to talk about why he is more bullish than ever on investing in China. He talks about the specific areas and sectors in China where he and his clients are investing.

August 22, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Week in Review with Jerry Robinson

The U.S. announced new peace talks set to take place next month between Israel and the Palestinians. And after years of delays, Iran finally began loading tons of uranium fuel into their first nuclear reactor (Russian-built) on Saturday.

August 18, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

6 More Reasons Why Gold is Guaranteed to Go Higher

A U.S. government report issued yesterday revealed that China cut its holdings of Treasury bonds and notes by the most ever recently. China’s holdings of long-term treasurys fell by $21.2 billion in June to $839.7 billion.

August 17, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Wars and Rumors of War

This weekend, Iran goes atomic. On August 21, Iran will bring the nation’s first nuclear power reactor online when it loads a shipment of nuclear fuel into the core of the Bushehr nuclear plant.

August 15, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Weekend Update with Jerry Robinson – August 15, 2010

It appears that despite the “best” efforts of Washington, the U.S. economy is continuing its miserable collapse. The jobless rates are more than just mere numbers. They represent agonizing pain of families who are in fear of losing their home to foreclosure and their creditworthiness to bankruptcy.

August 1, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

F. William Engdahl Interview – Follow the Money Podcast

Listen as Jerry Robinson talks with F. William Engdahl about his ground-breaking new book, Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century.

July 25, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Nancy Pelosi Steps Right Over the Third Rail

While checking the news on Sunday, I ran across this headline on the Drudge Report…

July 8, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Federal Reserve Surprise! "We may have to print more money" to spur "recovery"

The Fed is now threatening to pull out the big guns.

June 23, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Asian millionaires overtake Europeans

The net wealth of Asian millionaires has eclipsed that of rich Europeans for the first time.

June 9, 2010 Category: What Jerry Thinks

Two More Reasons Why America’s Economic Recovery Is Not As It Seems

The mainstream financial commentators still don’t get it.