Posts by Jeff Berwick

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

A TDV subscriber forwarded us an article that said the Federal Reserve was dangerously close to going "bankrupt," stating, "In direct figures, the Fed has $4.485 trillion in assets, but a whopping $4.428 trillion in liabilities, leaving only $57 billion, or about 1.28%".

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

Rick Rule is one of the most respected people in the financial markets and for good reason.  
Starting in his youth as a bouncer at a Vancouver nightclub (hear more of that story in my past interview with him here) he has since become a billionaire after forty years of being in the mining/commodity and financial markets.

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

Libertarian circles have been in a massive debate about Rand Paul.

Small government libertarians seem fairly split on Rand, finding much of what he says to be "
not that libertarian"
and pure libertarians, also known as anarchists, are also quite split on whether Rand would be good or bad in terms of achieving more freedom and less government.

Rand Paul is, at the very least, libertarian leaning. As one blog wrote, “
He may be a conservative libertarian, or a libertarian conservative, but he’
s a libertarian nonetheless.

[The following post is by TDV Editor In Chief, Jeff Berwick]

A Czech man has created a new country. He'
s calling it Liberland to celebrate the sort of liberty-based ideals championed by libertarians. But, his project is much more than just a libertarian enclave. Rather, it'
s a big step forward for freedom on Planet Earth.

Liberland is a new European country founded upon the principles of freedom, and that’
s why I’
ve applied for citizenship just three days after its founding.

[The following post is by TDV Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

Just hours ago, this happened: