Tag Archives: inflation

Silver price breaks free? Passes $66/ounce?

Posted on December 22, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

A correspondent shared that tidbit in the headline with us here at The Price of Liberty. Here are some thoughts, and not necessarily good ones. We’ve often discussed the relative worthlessness of the modern so-called “US dollar.” We have long … Continue reading →

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The insidious nature of debasing the currency (inflation)

Posted on November 7, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

James Hickman, over at Schiff Sovereign, recently published several good commentaries for Grey Swan (Paradigm et al) regarding inflation, stagflation, and the financial mess both old parties and both Trumpistas and NeverTrumpers have gotten the States into, for the last … Continue reading →

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“Real money” or just more fake money?

Posted on March 21, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Robert Koasawli is famous for his statement, “Silver and gold are God’s money. Everything else is fake.” The folks over at Paradigm put this chart out a couple of days ago: Gold is more than $3000/ounce. Remember that until 1934 … Continue reading →

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It’s only money…

Posted on February 18, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

… and fake money, at that. Right? This chart from nationaldebtclock.com sends shudders of fear through our bodies. The website has recently added the DOGE clock; tracking the money that DOGE has proposed striking from the FedGov budget. Most of … Continue reading →

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Hurricanes – who pays?

Posted on October 17, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

More and more in 2024, we are hearing cries of “punish them” directed at oil companies, coal companies (and electric utilities), and any other organization that might generate carbon dioxide and release it into the atmosphere. The latest reason (a … Continue reading →

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Who is to blame?

Posted on September 12, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

This meme was posted recently: Nonsense. No, it is because government is spending us all into poverty: borrowing money ad infinitum, and pumping more and more Federal Reserve Notes (paper and electrons) into the economy while the supply of goods … Continue reading →

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Government lies: the Consumer Price Index

Posted on August 7, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

The most recent Consumer Price Index numbers are out for June (July’s are not yet out: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm), and they show that the cost of food overall, food at home, and food away from home (dining out, for example) rose across the board. … Continue reading →

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Falling dominoes around the world

Posted on October 31, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

The barriers to liberty may be falling like dominoes around the world, especially in the Statesnstable conditions, political collapse, Congress,Falling dominoes, Continue reading →

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All the emperor’s men have no clothes

Posted on May 31, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Finally there are some details about the pretend “deficit deal” released, days after it was supposedly negotiated between Uncle Joe and the Republican House leadership. It is easy to see why they delayed as long as they did before sharing … Continue reading →

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“Not worth a dollar”

Posted on October 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Supposedly, annual inflation, August 2021 to August 2022, was a “mere” 8.3% here in the States. Don’t believe it. Ignoring sales prices, food prices in most places have sometimes doubled in the last year: for example, at a Safeway in … Continue reading →

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