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Civil Asset Forfeiture: What you can do about it

by Simon Black on November 19, 2014

Tan Nguyen was stopped on the highway for driving three miles over the speed limit. The policeman searched the car and found a briefcase of money that Tan said he just won at a casino.

There weren’t any drugs to be found, but suddenly the cop said he smelled marijuana and confiscated the money.

Iran launches Middle East's ‘biggest' gold plant, plans to double production

Published time: November 15, 2014 18:06

Iran has opened a new gold processing plant, reportedly the biggest in the Middle East, hoping to double its production of precious metals. Using a unique technology, Tehran says it will now mine up to three tons of gold per year.

The Consequences of a Strengthening US Dollar

Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 10:21 AM

In early September, I made the case for a rising U.S. dollar. Since then the dollar has continued its advance, and is now breaking out of a downtrend stretching back to 2005—and by some accounts, to 1985.

WARNING: new international gang of thieves make the IS and Somali pirates look like amateurs

November 18, 2014 | Sovereign Valley Farm, Ch

When the two young petty thieves, Rinconete and Cortadillo, came to Seville they were quickly censured for stealing. To their surprise, it wasn’t for the theft itself, but instead because they were not registered with the local thieves’ guild. In this upside-down world imagined by Miguel Cervantes, theft

You have two options. One can bring you a world of opportunity.

November 18, 2014

November 18, 2014 Santiago, Chile Walking across a bridge with ornate classical Roman sculptures trimmed in gold, I turned down a little Italian street to meet up with a friend for lunch. As the aroma of pizza wafted around me, I couldn’t help but feel that something was out of place. It wasn’t the food.

Mission Accomplished: Stock market, number of homeless children, both reach all-time highs

November 17, 2014 | Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile

Something is dreadfully wrong with this picture. In a report just released today by the National Center on Family Homelessness, a team of academics has demonstrated that the number of homeless children in the Land of the Free now stands at 2.5 million.

Bitcoin Is the Next Chapter in the History of Money

Friday, 21 Nov 2014 08:13

Since the dawn of money, money has had three major eras: commodity money, representative money and fiat money. Now we are seeing the birth of the fourth era: digital money like Bitcoin.

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