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Author: Chris Temple
A More “Hawkish” Fed might really materialize…here’s why
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com At the end of January’s first week, I was invited to join my friend and colleague Trevor Hall on the first “long form” discussion of 2022 on his Mining Stock Daily podcast.…
China and The New World DISORDER
China and the New World DISORDER By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor Tune in to Chris Temple of the National Investor as he discusses the situation with China and the New World DISORDER following their advancement on the…
Evergrande’s “Marketized Default” and the Consequences
By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (From the third regular issue of The National Investor for September, 2021) Investors just as much as politicians too often get caught up in often-stale, simplistic narratives on a subject–in…
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks
Building Critical Minerals Infrastructures: Opportunities and Roadblocks By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com The week of March 8 saw ambitious plans laid out in both the U.S. and Canada for building the Green Economies of the…
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story?
The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story? By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com As usual, I was starting off the 2nd regular…
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead
POWER-PACKED Discussion: Eliminating “Trumpism” and The Biden Administration ahead By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Posted Thursday morning, January 7, 2021 Yesterday (Wednesday) — in between keeping our eyes on the crazy scenes unfolding in our…
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris
OILMAGEDDON–And the Consequences of American Hubris By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (from the March 31, 2020 Issue) GUARANTEED to piss off Trump sycophants and those with T.D.S. (Trump Derangement Syndrome) alike, here’s a BADLY needed…
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It
The Fed’s Next Act: But Judy Shelton Might not be Around for It By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Congress can do no more than play confused, partisan politics with the central bank—and a new nominee—at…
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited
The Fed and your Money in 2020; Volcker, Revisited By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Sunday, December 15, 2019 — By the time the late President Ronald Reagan appointed him for a second term as Fed Chairman,…
“The World Turned Upside Down”
“The World Turned Upside Down” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (From the July 29, 2019 issue) Markets seem both oblivious to and unprepared for a MAJOR change that’s looming in the world: the end of…
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate”
The Modern Monetary Theory “Debate” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (From the April 15, 2019 Issue) I put “Debate” in quotes above since what you are hearing on this suddenly-HOT issue is, for the most…
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell
A year in the life of Fed Chair Jerome Powell By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted Feb. 6, 2019) With all the attention on the president’s State of the Union address last night and myriad…
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr.
C.R.E. Preview — My conversation with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com I’m privileged in this discussion here to visit with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who, over the better part of four…
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest
The “Death of the Dollar” Nonsense — Here’s the latest By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted Aug. 18, 2018) — From most of the usual suspects, there have again been “sensational” and “SHOCKING” revelations recently…
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson
Gold Manipulation – A History Lesson By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (From the Feb. 20, 2018 Issue) From time to time I clarify my own position–and provide some common sense and history–to address a well-flogged…
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!”
Now THIS was “Gold Suppression!” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com I regularly call out the carnival barker types among the “Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber” for putting out utter nonsense at times…
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game”
An Infrastructure Bill’s importance to “The Game” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Posted August 16) This week President Trump announced some unilateral measures he was taking on the regulatory/administrative front to try and remove some…
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!?
THIS is the Revived Roman Empire!? By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (COMMENTARY and News from the Sept. 5, 2016 issue) I vividly remember when — in the late 1990’s, as a growing European Union was…
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.”
EXPOSED: The usual Hucksters and their warnings (again!) of a new “world currency.” By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com (Adapted from the first August, 2016 issue) On schedule, those “experts” who specialize in taking a grain…
Building an Economic Lifeboat
Building an Economic Lifeboat By Chris Temple – Editor/Publisher The National Investor https://www.nationalinvestor.com/ chris@nationalinvestor.com Here’s my two-part interview of my old friend…and hero…and (among other things) creator of the Ithaca HOURS community currency, Paul Glover. (For more on Paul’s activities,…
Christmas Message: “The Original Revolution”
Each year at Christmas for some time now, I have shared the accompanying commentary by the late Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder. To me it indeed does reflect the truly revolutionary, epochal event of over two millennia ago, when our…
UNDERSTANDING THE GAME
(NOTE: New/returning subscribers will now receive the NEW/EXPANDED VERSION!!) Though nearly a decade old, Chris’ “signature presentation” here remains the best primer on the nature of our markets you will read ANYWHERE. Once you have read this, you will know…
The REAL Cause of Enron’s Collapse
When energy giant Enron imploded in scandal and financial ruin, too many described it as a tale of political cronyism, greed and whatnot. The truth was deeper than that: Enron collapsed because it had turned itself into the poster child…
Real American Heroes
Once upon a time in America, there was a thriving middle class; citizens able to enjoy “The American Dream” because they had good, stable jobs that paid a living wage. One of the great advocates of “A Square Deal” for…
Why Glass-Steagall HAD to be Repealed
It’s been nearly 15 years since this key Depression-era legislation was repealed by a Republican Congress and Democrat president. The reasons why the banks were pushing for Glass-Steagall to be deep-sixed became evident with the monstrous mortgage and derivatives boom–and BUST–of…
Ithaca HOURS–Community currency alternative to Bitcoin
(NOTE: Chris will be updating the Ithaca HOURS story and adding a LOT to it in his upcoming Special Report entitled “Building an Economic Lifeboat.”) Years ago, Chris wrote of a wonderful new–and successful–experiment to create “an economy within an…