The Homepage of J. Orlin Grabbe

Merchants are Angry About Credit Card Fees – $7B Worth of Angry

http://www.thegenesisblock.com/merchants-are-angry-about-credit-card-fees-7b-worth-of-angry/

The Great Deformation

The Great Deformation Watch this video on YouTube.

Why the whole banking system is a scam – Godfrey Bloom – YouTube

Why the whole banking system is a scam – Godfrey Bloom – YouTube Watch this video on YouTube.

The Monetary Future: Money Laundering Is Financial Thoughtcrime

http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.ch/2013/05/money-laundering-is-financial.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: TheMonetaryFuture (The Monetary Future)

Ripple and the Purpose of Money

https://ripple.com/blog/ripple-and-the-purpose-of-money/

Moneyness: A rush for US paper dollars: the rejuvenation of the world’s most popular brand

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/04/the-booming-demand-for-us-paper-dollars.html

The US Corporate State & The Great Deformation, David Stockman

http://mises.org/daily/6398/The-US-Corporate-State

Interpol Probe Targets Funds of Major File-Hosting Services

http://torrentfreak.com/interpol-probe-targets-funds-of-major-file-hosting-services-130417/

The Myth of “Intrinsic Value”

http://economicsandliberty.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/the-myth-of-intrinsic-value/

TorBroker – The Silk Road of Stock Brokers

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/04/torbroker-silk-road-of-stock-brokers.html TorBroker does for securities trading what Silk Road did for the drug trade, allowing users to buy and sell any of nearly 1000 stocks and ETFs anonymously and under the cover of the Tor network. Users fund their accounts with Bitcoin and pay a 1% fee to buy and sell securities.

The next domino: Australia doubles tax on retirement savings

http://www.sovereignman.com/finance/the-next-domino-australia-doubles-tax-on-retirement-savings-11618/

Must See David Stockman Interview

http://lewrockwell.com/hunter-greg/hunter-greg20.1.html

Flerovium: Tangible Nanomoney

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/04/14/flerovium-tangible-nanomoney/

‘Bitcoin derivatives, unlike gold and silver cases, is a good thing’

http://rt.com/op-edge/bitcoin-derivatives-good-development-594/ When I asked professor Antal Fekete on the “Keiser Report” recently, ‘what is the current cash price of gold,’ he looked at me quizzically because, technically speaking, there is no real current ‘market price’ for gold. The price quoted for Gold and Silver comes from the Comex futures market and is more ‘implied’ than [...]

Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society Much More Than The Internet Did – Falkvinge on Infopolicy

http://falkvinge.net/2013/04/03/why-bitcoin-is-poised-to-change-society-much-more-than-the-internet-did/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Falkvinge-on-Infopolicy (Falkvinge on Infopolicy)

Bitcoin Obliterates “The State Theory Of Money” – Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/04/03/bitcoin-obliterates-the-state-theory-of-money/

The ‘Other’ Parabolic Chart That Has Central Bankers Running Scared

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-03/other-parabolic-chart-has-central-bankers-running-scared

Why aren’t men responding to economic signals?

http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/why-arent-men-responding-to-economic-signals/

The Weeklies

http://prospect.org/article/weeklies In the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless—and left many living in budget hotels.

Victim of $440K wire fraud can’t blame bank for loss, judge rules

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/032713-victim-of-440k-wire-fraud-268129.html?source=nww_rss

Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/all/

BrianLehrer.tv: Interview with Eric Vorhees on Bitcoin

Cyprus Goes Cashless The Hard Way

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/03/24/cyprus-goes-cashless-the-hard-way/

MasterCard stings PayPal with payment fee hike

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/22/mastercard_paypal/

Jon Matonis: Fincen Spying Plan Invites Privacy Workarounds

http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/fincen-spying-plan-invites-privacy-workarounds-1057728-1.html

Cyprus Popular Bank imposes 260 euro per day limit on ATM withdrawals

http://uk.inagist.com/trends/cyprus popular bank imposes/

Does Ripple ever charge proportional transaction fees?

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7590/does-ripple-ever-charge-proportional-transaction-fees

Freddie Mac Sues Multiple Banks Over Libor Manipulation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/freddie-mac-sues-multiple-banks-over-libor-manipulation.html

Jim Sinclair – One Of The Most Important Events In History & Gold

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/3/16_Sinclair_-_One_Of_The_Most_Important_Events_In_History_&_Gold.html

The End Of Systemic Trust: The Canary Just Died | Zero Hedge

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-18/end-systemic-trust-canary-just-died

Europe Does It Again: Cyprus Depositor Haircut “Bailout” Turns Into Saver “Panic”, Frozen Assets, Bank Runs, Broken ATMs

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-16/europe-does-it-again-cyprus-depositor-haircut-bailout-turns-saver-panic-bank-runs-br

Government Licensing is only a Taxation Scheme

http://lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers258.html

Cyprus cash machines are EMPTIED

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294388/Cyprus-bailout-Osborne-vows-protect-Britains-armed-forces-Cyprus-cash-machines-EMPTIED.html

Europe Does It Again: Cyprus Depositor Haircut “Bailout” Turns Into Saver “Panic”, Frozen Assets, Bank Runs, Broken ATMs

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-16/europe-does-it-again-cyprus-depositor-haircut-bailout-turns-saver-panic-bank-runs-br

Strange money: privately-issued $6 and $7 notes

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/03/strange-moneyprivate-6-and-7-notes.html

Financial deepening and currency internationalization, the bitcoin edition

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/02/financial-deepening-and-currency.html Eichengreen points out that prior to World War I the dollar played a negligible role relative to the pound sterling in world markets, but by the mid 1920s it was the dominant unit for invoicing payments and denominating bonds. Eichengreen’s theory is that the US dollar became the world’s go-to currency because of the [...]

Moneyness: Orphaned currency, the odd case of Somali shillings

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/03/orphaned-currency-odd-case-of-somali.html Despite being easily differentiable, Somalians willingly accepted counterfeit 1000 and 500 shilling notes. Not only did they accept them, they considered them to be fungible with real 1000s and 500s. In other words, the market refused to place a discount on the fakes.

Moneyness: Line in the sand of Money vs Assets

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/03/line-in-sand.html

Modern economies are somewhere between barter and monetary

http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/02/modern-economies-are-somewhere-between.html

Half of Detroit Properties Have Not Paid Taxes; Update on Detroit Bankruptcy

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ch/2013/02/half-of-detroit-properties-have-not.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis (Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)

Lords of Finance: The Backroom World of Central Banking

http://mises.org/daily/6358/Lords-of-Finance-The-Backroom-World-of-Central-Banking

Loophole for All – Become a pirate, hijack an offshore company!

http://loophole4all.com/ Loophole for All is a service to democratize offshore business for people who don’t want to pay for their riches. It empowers everyone to evade taxes, hide money and debt, and get away with anything by stealing the identities of real offshore companies.

The NY Fed Gold Audit Sham

http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel215.html

1999 Flashback: Virtual Money, Privacy, and the Internet: Events: The Independent Institute

http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=37

The Time Store: Community Currency Hours of 1857

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/02/19/the-time-store/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: FutilityCloset (Futility Closet)

The Al Capone Option: Can’t Get the P2P Pirates with Copyright Laws? Nail em’ with ‘Tax Evasion’

http://torrentfreak.com/former-file-sharing-site-admin-fined-6-4-million-euros-130219/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Torrentfreak (Torrentfreak)

Bitcoin: David Friedman on monetary freedom and Bitcoin

Bitcoin: David Friedman on monetary freedom and Bitcoin Watch this video on YouTube.

Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Hot Air and No Substance; Obama’s Plan to Destroy Jobs “Won’t Cost a Dime”

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/hot-air-and-no-substance-obamas-plans.html

47 Million Americans On “Obama Stamps” Exceeding The Population Of Spain

http://govtslaves.info/47-million-americans-on-obama-stamps-exceeding-the-population-of-spain/

Mish Shedlock’s case for deflation

Mish Shedlock’s case for deflation Watch this video on YouTube.

Schneier on Security: Tide Detergent Becomes Drug Currency

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/tide_becomes_dr.html

The Flipside of the Trillion Dollar Coin

http://lewrockwell.com/salerno/salerno14.1.html

Here’s Another Reason Why The Government’s Budget Deficit Figures Are Phony Baloney

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/heres-another-reason-why-the-governments-budget-deficit-figures-are-phony-baloney/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog) The US government deficit is supposed to be running at around $1.2 trillion. But the government gets there by using accounting methods that would put private business executives in jail for fraud. The real deficit by different estimates should be multiples higher. This is already widely known. It is also [...]

Stuff to do in Shenzhen: Open a bank account

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/01/29/stuff-to-do-in-shenzhen-open-a-bank-account/

The New Ripple: The Worlds Payment System

https://ripple.com/

How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/21/vatican-secret-property-empire-mussolini Papacy used offshore tax havens to create £500m international portfolio, featuring real estate in UK, France and Switzerland

Meet Amancio Ortega: The third-richest man in the world

http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/08/zara-amancio-ortega/

Single Women Want Your Money

http://www.returnofkings.com/3130/single-women-want-your-money

Taxation of the Stupid…. or… Why would anyone actually play SatoshiDICE?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/173na2/why_would_anyone_actually_play_satoshidice/

PayNearMe: Pay Anyone With Cash — No Matter Where They Are

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/paynearme-remote-cash-payments/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories)

Meet “Baxter” the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job, Because He’s Still Much Cheaper; Fed Cannot Win a Fight Against Robots

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.de/2013/01/meet-baxter-robot-out-to-get-your.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis (Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)

United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700

Trillion Dollar Coins and Alien Invasions :: The Circle Bastiat

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/trillion-dollar-coins-and-alien-invasions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)

US programmer secretly outsourced his own corporate job to China

http://rt.com/usa/news/us-employee-outsourcing-china-177/

The Fed prints and prints, and no huge consumer price inflation?

http://www.soundmoneyproject.org/?p=9002&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AtlasSoundMoneyProject (Atlas Sound Money Project)

US Gov Wants a Piece of the Billion USD Violent Game Industry Profits

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/357166/3/Mo-lawmaker-wants-tax-on-violent-video-games

Hayek versus Keynes: The Big Picture in Cartoon Form

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/hayek-versus-keynes-the-big-picture-in-cartoon-form/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)

The Austrian School Referenced in The Simpsons

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/the-austrian-school-referenced-in-the-simpsons/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)

EU to Ban Large Cash Transactions

http://silverunderground.com/2013/01/eu-may-to-large-cash-transactions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: silvercirclemovieblog (Silver Underground Blog) One of the great insights in Friedrich Hayek’s famous work “Road to Serfdom” is that socialism and fascism are not polar opposites on a spectrum. In fact, they have the same essential nature, and totalitarianism is the consequence of both, not corruptions of them. Socialism doesn’t work, economically, sociologically, or [...]

What Austrians Can Learn from Steve Martin

http://mises.org/daily/6247/What-Austrians-Can-Learn-from-Steve-Martin

As NSA Pairs With Banks To “Fight Hackers”, Will It Also Gain Access To Every American’s Financial Secrets?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-13/nsa-pairs-banks-fight-hackers-will-it-also-gain-access-every-americans-financial-det

Facebook Charging $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg

http://mashable.com/2013/01/11/facebook-message-mark-zuckerberg/

Presenting the decline of the West in two easy infographics

http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/presenting-the-decline-of-the-west-in-two-easy-infographics-10277/

Gold Has Longest Streak of Annual Gains Since 1920

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.de/2012/12/gold-has-longest-streak-of-annual-gains.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis (Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis)

Egypt Imposes New Cash Controls At Border

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/12/27/egypt-imposes-new-cash-controls-at-border/