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What kind of wealth was meant in the Adam Smith,book?!
For a truth, about 3/4 of this book is 18th century blabber about corn prices. Of the remaining 1/4, about 1/2 is criticism of mercantilsm, which is mostly obvious and definitely boring.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker For a truth, about 3/4 of this book is 18th century blabber about corn prices. Of the remaining 1/4, about 1/2 is criticism of mercantilsm, which is mostly obvious and definitely boring.
"He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it...he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it."
A prideful and ambitious boy, hearing that President Kennedy had been a speed reader, I cut lawns and shovelled walks to pay for an Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program. We met in the spare basement of the hideous modern structure that passed for Park Ridge's "Inn"--a residence primarily for attendants and pilots from the airlines utilizing nearby O'Hare International Airport. I was a sophomore, the youngest in class, quite serious and full of myself.
The Wood method consisted, basically, of two A prideful and ambitious boy, hearing that President Kennedy had been a speed reader, I cut lawns and shovelled walks to pay for an Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program. We met in the spare basement of the hideous modern structure that passed for Park Ridge's "Inn"--a residence primarily for attendants and pilots from the airlines utilizing nearby O'Hare International Airport. I was a sophomore, the youngest in class, quite serious and full of myself.
The Wood method consisted, basically, of two parts. First, don't subvocalize while reading. Second, run a finger down the page while soft-focusing on the text. The rest was a matter of practice and ever-faster fingers until some of us were "reading" as fast as we could turn the pages.
The texts for class were, one suspects, Ms. Wood's efforts to make the world a better place. They included Ayn Rand's Anthem, an early exercise, and Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, the final exercise. I was so expert by that time that the Wealth of Nations took no longer than Rand's novella had--thirty or forty minutes maybe.
The whole business was a sham of course. What we were learning was how to skim and cram, skim and cram for examinations designed to pick up on the kinds of material one might retain from a skim and cram method. The rest depended upon what Marx termed "the labor theory of value"--we had spent a lot of money and time on this stuff, so it had better have paid off or we'd be fools.
"The Wealth of Nations" is the book that changed greed to a virtue instead of a sin.
In fact, greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian theology. Greed is a sin in ALL the great religions, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Buddhism, American Indian Spiritualism, Wiccan nature love, Bahá'í Faith, Gnosticism · · Rastafari,Samaritanism, Indian Ayyavazhi, Jainism, Sikhism Iranian Ahl-e Haqq, Manichaeism, Mazdak, Yazidi,Zoroastrianism, East Asian Confucianism, Taoism,Recent C "The Wealth of Nations" is the book that changed greed to a virtue instead of a sin.
Indo-European Celtic, Germanic Illyro-thracian, Greek (Gnosticism · Neoplatonism), Mithraism, Vedic Hinduism . . . .
All these religions say greed is wrong. All these religions say you should not gather wealth at the expense of your neighbors. But this man Adam Smith says it is OK to do whatever is necessary to obtain wealth. Adam Smith says it is a good thing to allow your instinct toward selfishness to rule your life. He calls it Capitalism. And it works for a century or so before the robbed and disenfranchised revolt and kill off the greedy ones who rule society to their benefit.
Greed is the basis and essence of Capitalism, especially US Capitalism, in which every individual is guaranteed the "right to pursue happiness". Has anyone EVER questioned that? Why is more important to be happy than to know where you fit into the Grand Scheme? Why is more important to make money than to find and free your spirit? Look at any wealthy person who gained his or her wealth through competiton -do they have a healthy or unhealthy spirit?
In turning greed to virtue, Adam Smith has created an economic system that more accurately has been called "Social Darwinism". In other words, according to Smith, it is perfectly natural for the meanest, strongest, most clever individuals to gobble up so much capital that the great majority of people are left with crumbs.
The weakest of us "deserve" to be poor, according to Smith. The Bible and every civilized religion in the world disagree, saying greed is a sin because the individual chooses to be greedy even though he/she knows it will cause great shortages of money among the meek and powerless.
Capitalism therefore is a sin, not an acceptable economic system. So long as there exists a middle class nothing catastrophic should happen to the society embracing this sin. But right now the middleclass is disappearing in the USA (as it has in all empires), leaving only the few monsters at the top and everyone else in poverty.
Forgive me for reading and for using my mind to agree or disagree with the author. I know most of you are capitalist because you are citizens of the USA. I am frankly a disciple of Diogenes and believe we should all be free and enjoy life -- there is plenty to go around without getting into a harness and working yourself to death. Let's face it, communism would have worked if they'd killed off the hogs as they rose to power. There are always hogs in society -- it is the duty of society to keep them chained or jailed.
Adam Smith, to a real Christian, is Satan personified. How devious and clever to claim a sin is a virtue. I recommend reading this admittedly fascinating book because it is an explanation of why Rome, Great Britian, the Ottoman Empire, et al, in the end collapsed because of greed made a virtue.
Adam Smith eloquently and wittily pretends to be a friend to the common person. So does "Das Kapital" and "Mein Kampf".
I personally am not a communist, socialist nor capitalist. I'm absolutely a nobody and you can take that to your corrupt bank. I revel in the freedom of my mind! I am an old graybeard and have read a thousand books --I was cast out of the 20th Century for chastising lesser minds, indifferent minds. I have been driven mad -- but in that madness there has come a clarity. It is so bright and wonderful that I can see clearly what I could not see before.
For some reason, the American Right tend to be as vehemently in favor of the Invisible Hand of the market as they are vehemently against the Invisible Hand of Darwinian selection. And the old USSR was exactly the same, except that they reversed the two positions.
Am I the only person who thinks this is just plain weird?
How can one go through life without reading the Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith had the idea of modern economics before the United States was even sovereign (I go not so much for good writers, as I do for innovative and groundbreaking thinkers). Imagine coming up with your own idea of an economic system long before the world was ready. And unlike Marx, may I mention, Smith's ideals are not only flourishing and still seen today, but they are the foundation of the many, many economies and nations.
Always a great classic on economics. His one fatal flaw was opening the door for Marx. By placing value based on labor, laborers feel they are the ones that deserve all the reward. Labor means nothing if no one wants the item being produced. The free market drives price, not the amount of labor put into a product.
Great chance to see and understand how economics developed.
An erudite who not only changed the shape of economics thinking but also laid the foundation of capitalism and industrialization. The book by him can be regarded as The Bible of economics.
Adam Smith's "An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations" (often called simply "The Wealth Of Nations") is one of two great works from the Scottish economist and philosopher, the other being the lesser known "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". "The Wealth Of Nations" was published on March 9th, of 1776, but there were additional editions in 1778, 1784, 1786, and 1789. I read the free Kindle version of "The Wealth Of Nations", and while I do not recommend that version I do recom Adam Smith's "An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations" (often called simply "The Wealth Of Nations") is one of two great works from the Scottish economist and philosopher, the other being the lesser known "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". "The Wealth Of Nations" was published on March 9th, of 1776, but there were additional editions in 1778, 1784, 1786, and 1789. I read the free Kindle version of "The Wealth Of Nations", and while I do not recommend that version I do recommend the overall work.
The issues with the Kindle version are that it is poorly formatted, and it is painful to attempt to read the numbers in the tables at the of Book I. You are much better off getting a hard copy so that you can more easily flip to the section of interest, and to read the information in a better format. As for the rest, the content is all there, once you get past the poor formatting.
The work contains five books within. The first is "Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour". In this book he discusses the benefits of the division of labor, the origin and benefits of using money, a section on the "real" price of commodities (i.e. how much toil it takes to produce them), a discussion of the natural and market prices of commodities (the forces of supply and demand), the effect of controlling a commodity can have on the price, the wages of labor (again a case of supply and demand with the commodity of labor), the profits of stock, a discussion of the ill effects of groups who use their influence to manipulate the government (this would include banking conglomerations, trade unions, etc.), and closes with a section on rent.
The second book is "Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock" which deals with accumulating wealth which lasts a longer period of time. This book starts with how one divides their stock into what they need for personal use, and what they can dispose of in exchange for others available stock. He then moves into a discussion of money as a type of stock, and then how to use their excess money/stock to gain interest.
The third book is "Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations", where he talks about the balance between the inhabitants of towns and those of the country areas and goes into how agriculture is discouraged over time, while cities and towns prosper.
The fifth book is "Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth" in which Smith deals with taxation. This is an important area to read and understand, as it is the one which many ignore when using Smith to try to support other areas. There are hints here of the progressive tax, as well as a discussion of the expenses of the nation, an important acknowledgement that the poor spend the greater part of their income on the fundamentals, such as food, and so he suggests luxury taxes as not unreasonable. Smith then closes the final book with a discussion of the costs of war, both for the actual fighting, and in terms of the loss of trade.
This is a pillar of western civilization but not much fun so don't read it unless you have to. A Wiki should give you more information than you need to know. The 7 hour abridged Audible edition gave me more far more info than I needed or wanted. Thank God that's over.
رأى سميث أن الوصول إلى الثروة هوالغاية الأساسية للاقتصاد، وكان للمواضيع التي تطرق إليها (العمل، القيمة، الريع، السعر، التوزيع..) أثر بالغ في تنظيم علم الاقتصاد السياسي.
اعتبر سميث أن ثروة كل أمة تقاس بقدرتها الإنتاجية، وتناول الإنتاجية كمقياس للثروة التي يمكن مضاعفتها بتقسيم العمل. واهتم بطرق توزيع الثروة في المجتمع ووسائل تنظيم التجارة وتقسيم العمل، إضافة إلى أطروحاته المتعلقة بحرية السوق واليد الخفية التي تساهم في دفع الحركة الاقتصادية وتشجيع الاستثمار، ودعوته إلى الحد من تدخل الدولة المباشر في رأى سميث أن الوصول إلى الثروة هوالغاية الأساسية للاقتصاد، وكان للمواضيع التي تطرق إليها (العمل، القيمة، الريع، السعر، التوزيع..) أثر بالغ في تنظيم علم الاقتصاد السياسي.
1. Smith, in various places in the book, criticizes merchantilists and others. However, since the average reader (even the average economist) has no knowledge of merchantilists and physiocrats, all his comments SEEM correct, whereas in fact they are just simplistic and unfair (merchantilists never confused wealth and money, and physiocrats invented many important concepts in economics and public finance). So, lots of great economics books (think of John Steuart or Sir William Petty) were simply ignored.
2. Smith never quoted another writer. It is because he invented economics by himself? No... it is because he never bothered to give references, "forgot" to mention what he took from other great writers, especially the physiocracts. Thus, the book gives a false impression that he is MUCH more original than he actually is.
3. He did not invent free markets, market economy, or economics. Period. He is not a liberal, or even a liberal economist. Yet, he is claimed to be the founder of economics (labelled "classical" economics). Considering that there were economists before him, what makes him the father of anything? Simple answer: because economists do not read historically important works in economics, they just quote Smith.
(I could just go on and on, but there is no need to).
Let me simply say that if you want to get informed about the history of economics, start with the merchantilists. If you want to learn about modern economics , the true founding father of modern economics is Jeremy Bentham. He is the true inventor of homo economicus.
A text that's still relevant (and its main points still taught). The Wealth of Nations is far from a short read, but I feel like it's main points are pretty easy to sum up and since when they have been put into practice we have seen the results intended, it has maintained its importance.
Basically it states that producers are better off investing in capital and labor (creating a division of labor) so each laborer only has to specialize in one task, thus creating a far more efficient output. Ultim A text that's still relevant (and its main points still taught). The Wealth of Nations is far from a short read, but I feel like it's main points are pretty easy to sum up and since when they have been put into practice we have seen the results intended, it has maintained its importance.
Basically it states that producers are better off investing in capital and labor (creating a division of labor) so each laborer only has to specialize in one task, thus creating a far more efficient output. Ultimately specialization doesn't only increase speed and surplus (which can be traded for goods or exchanged for currency) but it also leads to further innovation, because the more familiar a person is with a task the easier it will be for them to find a way around it.
Next, self interest serves the economy as a whole, because the famous invisible hand will guide competitors to create higher quality products and offer better customer service because it's in their best interest. Avoiding these tasks or taking shortcuts will hurt them.
The market is more efficient than the government so the role of government should be limited to defense, infrastructure and education. Basically made it sound like the more centralized the decision are, the more harmful they can be towards the growth of the economy.
4.0 stars. I read this on my own in law school. I know, I know, who does that right? Well I obtained this as part of my Easton Press colleciton of "Books That Changed the World." I remember being really intrigued by the book and it made me more interested in the history of economics.
This book was absolutely a pain to get through. Maybe the biggest difference between 2012 and 1776 is that people have less patience. This economic book, seems to have made a huge influence on future economists and capitalists, but reading over 1000 pages on extremely dry economics was really difficult for me. There are some good ideas in the book, but reading pages after pages of grain prices was not something I could easily handle. I'd have left the book unfinished, if it was not my resolve (or OCD, whichever way you want to look at it) that has me finish every book I read.
The book itself is interesting in that it really does seem to have influenced current modern western economics, or maybe, it hasn't really influenced it as much as foretold it. To the western world, for a while now, emotions and spirituality has been cast aside, and in its place have been rationality, and by extension, capitalism. In this book, Adam Smith talks a lot about society, governments, people, and slavery, but it is never about morality, and always about the progress of the materialistic world. I'm not criticizing the work, because relying on logic sometimes makes sense. For example, Adam Smith is against slavery in the book, not for its ethical reason, but the fact that he believes that freeman are better workers than slaves, therefore a nation can progress faster if it pays wages to its laborers, rather than having slaves. That is, in the long term, having no slaves is materialistically advantageous.
"The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniences and ornaments of building, dress, equipage and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary."
It is a good book to have read, but it might have been better for me to read an abridged version, 200 or 300 pages would have been better for me to absorb the main concepts and reflect on them, rather than have the ideas repeated, stretched, and given dozens of pages of examples about freaking grain prises.
Three things happened in 1776.
1. The Revolutionary war started (Declaration of Independence).
3. Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations".
کتاب پر از تاریخ و عدد است و خیلی کند جلو می رود، خیلی سنگین است و مثل دایره المعارف است. اسمیت می گوید بازتاب زیبایی بازار این است که خود حافظ خود است و بازار که اوج آزادی اقتصادی فرد است، سخت گیرترین تمام کارفرماهاست.
We know from experience that Smith's system is not complete unto itself. In fact, Smith himself would probably have admitted this. His references to ancient history and political philosophy would seem to show not only that he accepted that the territory of "statecraft" is not entirely contained within the borders of classical economics but also that he accepted the State's place alongside the Market as a fundamental, primordial feature of social existence.
That much being said, Smith deserves cre We know from experience that Smith's system is not complete unto itself. In fact, Smith himself would probably have admitted this. His references to ancient history and political philosophy would seem to show not only that he accepted that the territory of "statecraft" is not entirely contained within the borders of classical economics but also that he accepted the State's place alongside the Market as a fundamental, primordial feature of social existence.
That much being said, Smith deserves credit for several revolutionary discoveries. Most importantly, his emphasis on the control and cultivation of markets -- and not territory [as the physiocrats claimed:] or gold [as the mercantilists claimed:] -- as the proper objective of macroeconomic policy ranks as a major breakthrough. His use of market-analysis to explain the collapse of the Spanish colonization of the New World and the success of the Enlgish is a powerful, and clearly true, demonstration of the fundamental effectiveness of his model, even if subsequent events have shown that cases do exist in which market considerations should not be the primary ones in the decision making process.
His elucidation of the labor theory of value as the foundation of a real price of a commodity is both accessible and convincing, and it is a considerable advance beyond the original iteration of the theory by Locke. His distinction between the real price and the market price of a commodity raises the question of the role that the market should play in determining prices, and that, again, remains one of the most important questions in the history of political thought. Like most applications of the Doctrine of a Self-Correcting Market, Smith's faith in the tendency of the market price of commodities to remain, over time, faithful to the real price has to be viewed as more of an ideal than a reality. But his description of the law of supply and demand as a means of calculating market price from the underlying real price seems irrefutable.
A long time to read, but providing interesting perspective. Adam Smith is called the Father of Modern Economics. After reading his book, considered his magnum opus (great work), I have the following thought to share.
Smith discusses three types of people; those who make money by rent, by labor, and by employment of stock. With respect to the various laws each of these group tends to propose, he considers the likely merits. Those who make money by rent can only make money if the people who supply A long time to read, but providing interesting perspective. Adam Smith is called the Father of Modern Economics. After reading his book, considered his magnum opus (great work), I have the following thought to share.
Smith discusses three types of people; those who make money by rent, by labor, and by employment of stock. With respect to the various laws each of these group tends to propose, he considers the likely merits. Those who make money by rent can only make money if the people who supply that rent are doing well. The laws they suggest should be good for the society. Those who make money by labor need both those who make money by rent and those who make money by the employment of stock to do well if they are to succeed. (They require a place to live and a place to work, as it were, and cannot harm either overmuch without harming themselves.) The third category of people he discusses is different.
People who make money by the employment of stock are frequently accused of suggesting laws that do not suit the other two groups.
Keeping in mind this book was published in 1776, the same year the US was founded, and that it is written in the language of the time, this is a thorough examination of how patterns of trade, currency, and growth occur. The foundation upon which all other economics books are written.
Stick this book in your bathroom and read one of the short little 12-page chapters every time you pay an extended visit. At over 1000 pages, it will take a while, but if you want to teach yourself how to debunk the f Keeping in mind this book was published in 1776, the same year the US was founded, and that it is written in the language of the time, this is a thorough examination of how patterns of trade, currency, and growth occur. The foundation upon which all other economics books are written.
Stick this book in your bathroom and read one of the short little 12-page chapters every time you pay an extended visit. At over 1000 pages, it will take a while, but if you want to teach yourself how to debunk the free trade B.S. people misattribute to Adam Smith and skewer your obnoxious MBA brother-in-law at the next family gathering, read Adam Smith for yourself. He doesn't say what the US Chamber of Commerce -says- he says.
This book was far too long. Too much talk of corn prices and criticism of mercantilism. But once you get to the parts regarding Smith's idea of free markets, unregulated by the state, things get interesting.
Having lived through an economic crisis, I was hesitant to give this book a try, but I'm glad I did it. It's good to see how 18th century people though free markets would work (back then no one had even heard of corporations and businesses belonged to specific people). Compared with what came This book was far too long. Too much talk of corn prices and criticism of mercantilism. But once you get to the parts regarding Smith's idea of free markets, unregulated by the state, things get interesting.
The most influential book of all time. Every commodity and service we enjoy - from transportation to technology to cheaper metal production - has come because of those who have stood on the giant shoulders of Adam Smith.
The natural processes of a successful economy are found in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Although two hundred plus years old, Smith focuses on significantly profound and pertinent principles for any age. Stressing that regulations tend to limit prosperity and production, his extensive research of history and economics proves that a free market is an effective system in producing a wealthy nation. "The object of political economy of every country is to increase the riches and power of the country," writes Smith. He proposes that wealth is built on labor, savings and investment. His labor theory of value regards "labor [as the:] the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities [and that:] the real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Unlike our nation's current course of consuming, Smith declares that saving is the sure path to wealth. He observes that, "Parsimony, and not industry is the immediate cause of the increase of capital." Importantly, he measures the wealthiest nations as those who have a surplus to invest or to increase production. His main theme throughout is that great fortunes are made through a long life of industry, frugality, and careful saving.
Lamentably our country is in financial trouble. The future looks bleak as we contemplate the consequences of consumer and national debt, deflation of currency and an increase of government intervention and regulations. A close look at society will reveal that individuals as a majority are heavily in debt. What is the solution to this downward financial spiral? Do our societal choices mimic individual choices?
God, as a standard of what is right and wrong sets moral principles for promoting human happiness and progress. When those principles are followed, happiness and progress abounds. But the opposite is true that misery and decline follow when wrong choices are made. For example, a prodigal, who does not live within his means, destroys his capital and that of others. His idleness and prodigality encroaches upon the industry and capital of his progenitors. If a great number in a society follow his immoral example then society is in a state of debt and moral decline. Adam Smith states in his book, Wealth of Nations, that if prodigality is not compensated by frugality the path will lead to an impoverished country. Individuals must change if the society is to change. Change must come from the bottom up.
Supposing that Adam Smith is correct, I propose that the solution to our economic woes begin with individuals who are hard working and frugal, who save for a rainy day and who invest surplus income. Individually achieving these four principles will have a great affect in improving our nation's economy. Smith affirms, "As capital of an individual can be increased only by what he saves from his annual revenue or his annual gains, so the capital for a society, which is the same with that of all the individuals who compose it, can be increased only in the same manner." Sorry John Maynard Keynes, your philosophy of spending, debt and deflation of money has historically proven to send a nation to its ruin.
Smith explains that the principle of saving regularly is a natural expression of bettering oneself and that the greater the fortune, the greater ability to improve individual, familial and societal conditions provided that the individual is a moral person. "Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct," writes Smith. Wealth is not built upon spending and consuming, but upon sound principles of careful investing, saving, frugality and parsimoniously living. If Smith's principles are practiced, the nation's downward spiral can be reversed.
Recommends it for: Anyone living in the 21st century.
The Wealth of Nations is an excellent work of the 18th Century enlightenment. It examines in a logical way that can be understood by any reader how government actions in commerce canharm the public interest.
For example if price controls are instituted because food costs too much in a city, supply will diminish radically as producers will take their crops to a different city. If a trading company (e.g. British India company) is given a monopoly over the trade from East Asia, then the price of tea The Wealth of Nations is an excellent work of the 18th Century enlightenment. It examines in a logical way that can be understood by any reader how government actions in commerce canharm the public interest.
For example if price controls are instituted because food costs too much in a city, supply will diminish radically as producers will take their crops to a different city. If a trading company (e.g. British India company) is given a monopoly over the trade from East Asia, then the price of tea will be higher in England than if Dutch merchants were allowed to import their tea.
Hence this book is of great value in providing an early critique of government efforts to regulate commerce. The British East India company had received its charter because it had been felt that without the monopoly the company would lack the critical mass needed to assume the cost of defending its territory militarily. Unfortunately the British consumer had to pay a higher price for Indian tea and opium because of the monopoly.
Read this book then. It is sensible and provides an excellent view into the debate amongst intellectuals and politicians in the 18th century.
Smith is not considered to be an Economist. Economics as we now know it began with John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s. Keynes assigned the major components of the commercial and goods producing activities in our world to various accounts. He then proposed a model of goods and investment flow from one account to another. Using this model, governments could manage the level of growth and employment.
What you or your friends studied in economics was really a methodology for managing a monetary flow that assumed the validity of a certain model. Whenever behaviour does not conform to the model, economists say that the model requires further refinement.
Economics is not total hogwash however. When great care is taken to construct a market according to Keynesian economic theory, the model works brilliantly. Our financial and commodities markets are constructed and regulated so that the Keynesian model will operate with maximum efficiently. The result is that our international equity and commodity markets operate at lightning speed with extremely low transaction costs.
The important thing is to remember that Smith has nothing to do with modern economics. It proposes no model that can be managed and is based entirely on common sense. It is great reading. Anyone interested in Western culture and civilization should read it.
Much of what the book says confirms what any Economics 101 course would tell you - when you try to modify a free market, there are ripple effects. Take mercantilism again, as an example. Countries at the time tried to have "positive balances of trade", through methods such as prohibiting the exportation of gold, and encouraging exportation of everything else. This supposedly makes a country richer. In reality, all it does is make gold worth *less* in that country, because there are less products to buy per unit of gold available. This also leads to smuggling, where gold is sold to other countries where it is worth more.
What would Smith think about the 21st century? I think he would be disappointed in our politics, both Democrat and Republican. Both Bush and Obama have overseen increases in the size of the federal government. Smith would likely be a conservative, but not a Republican or a "Tea Party" protester. He probably would've voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 primaries and Bob Barr in the general elections, despite flaws in both candidates. He would be against the War on Drugs, the bailouts, and probably the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He would be just as worried about corporate monopolies as he would government monopolies. I'm not so sure what he would think about healthcare - there are definitely problems with American healthcare, but don't think he'd want a public option or insurance mandate as a reform.


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The Northern Ireland Festival of Writing will be broadcasting over six hours of content throughout the day and night on NVTV this Friday, November 28.
Following on from the successful inaugural event in 2019 the festival has launched an online programme of content that will once again encourage and support writers who want to start or develop their skills.
Over the next 3 weeks the free online content will include interviews with local writers and content creators, panel events, workshops and masterclasses.
As well as that the festival will be broadcasting a series of interviews with local writers from a wide variety of writing genres on NVTV and across via a range of Facebook and YouTube channels.
Director of the festival, James Murphy, said that the festival intends to become even more successful in encouraging local talent.
"While we cannot repeat last year we have worked hard to make sure we have a rich programme that aims to help develop participant's confidence," he said.
"We hope that what we have planned will educate, empower and improve literacy and communications skills."
The 2020 programme will include in-depth interviews with local, national and international writers; a range of practical writing and creative writing workshops, online book club and reading recommendations; panel discussions; and, an online writing retreat.
Festival directors publicist and journalist Tina Calder and author James Murphy will be interviewing a range of well known Northern Ireland writers including comedians Tim McGarry and Nuala McKeever, musicians Janet Devlin and Ciaran McElhinney, performance poets Elizabeth McGeown and Michael Wilson, authors William Clegg and Bernie Allen, transformation coach Deborah King, journalist and author Malachi O'Doherty and journalist and blogger Alan Meban to name a few.
From Zoom to in-studio interviews Tina said they wanted to show the breadth of talent throughout Northern Ireland.
She added: "What we wanted to achieve with these interviews was to inspire other writers by hearing stories from those who have achieved a range of success in their chosen writing field. It was important to us that we were able to show that the writing industry was more than just writing novels and poetry.
"There are some really incredible stories of people's journey to success and I love the fact that each person has a different one to tell."
Local community television channel NVTV joined forces with the festival in order to make it more accessible to people across the country.
Simon Wood, Chairperson at NVTV said: "Northern Visions is excited to be a partner in the Northern Ireland Festival of Writing this year. One of the pleasures for many of us during these challenging times, especially during lockdown, has been being able to get lost in a book and become acquainted with books we have forgotten we actually own.
"What's so interesting about the Festival of Writing is that it is writing in all its forms so this is a real voyage of discovery."
Fans of the festival can see the main NVTV broadcast on Friday November 27 broadcasting on Freeview 7 (greater Belfast) and Virgin Media 159 (across Northern Ireland).
The festival will also be streaming sessions on Facebook and running a series of online workshop sessions as well as a range of other interactive events over the coming weeks.
"With the support of all including our festival partners NVTV, Oranga Creative, BAM magazine, The Secret Bookshelf and my own company Excalibur Press we will make this year's festival a roaring success and look forward to having a further programme planned for the time when safer social gatherings can take place" said festival co-founder Tina Calder.
To help support the festival the Crowd Funder page can be found here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-northern-ireland-festival-of-writing
To find out more at http://festivalofwriting.org
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Our new national sport. Today's blameless generation versus your guilty one. Who will atone for our fathers' sins? Even if they weren't sins at the time.'
There are symbols of the past being torn down in John le Carré's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies. But they are not statues; they are the secret agents of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union, which lasted until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Le Carré has revisited the plot of his early, brutal and furious novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in order to re-examine the morally ambiguous subterfuges that formed part of the West's Cold War arsenal.
Le Carré's literary reputation has suffered over the years because he was pigeon-holed as a spy writer from very early on. Genre writers, however brilliant, are generally not deemed literary, which is particularly galling in le Carré's case as he is one of the best British writers of modern times. The great American novelist Philip Roth described le Carré's A Perfect Spy as the 'best English novel since the war'.
He is so much more than a writer of spy fiction. Through his novels, he paints the big picture of a Britain in decline since the Second World War. Le Carré should be more accurately described as a political writer, and yet one who deals with profound human emotions, indeed one who can make political history breathe through the lives of his characters. His themes are betrayal, deceit, loss and treachery; individuals and countries alike are the victims.
For le Carré, Britain's story began in 1945. The Empire is over and forgotten; Britain's imperial enemy Germany is defeated and the Cold War is being fought. He writes of Britain as victors of the Second World War, but losers of the ensuing peace – a country that has 'lost an empire and not yet found a role', as former US secretary of state Dean Acheson once put it. For le Carré, the Cold War was both a defence of the West against the Soviet Union and also a way of keeping a diminished post-imperial Britain at the top table. His characters resent the US and its almost effortless rise to global domination. As one says: 'Were we simply suffering from the incurable English disease of needing to play the world's game when we weren't world players anymore?'
Le Carre's great literary creation is George Smiley, an officer high up in MI6. Smiley's story is at the heart of A Legacy of Spies, although he himself only makes an appearance right at the end. A clever, ugly man, he is married to a society beauty who systematically betrays him, not only with many lovers but ultimately with a high-level Soviet agent. He is self-effacing, apparently humane and yet utterly ruthless. Smiley is the embodiment of the postwar British establishment in its quest for new certainties. Yet the probity of the ruling class is in constant doubt as the ghosts of real-life upper-class traitors Burgess, Maclean and Philby are ever present, leading the protagonists of the novel to ask, 'who can you trust?'. The answer is almost nobody.
In A Legacy of Spies, le Carré sets out to defend the undercover war between Western and Soviet secret services, during which both sides employed ruthless brutality, often sacrificing agents and informers in the name of the greater good. Set in the present day, various relatives of these past victims are challenging the British secret service and demanding that the past be exposed (and that they should be paid for their loss). One of the least attractive characters, a thief and an extortionist, sums up how those living now look at the past:
'You know what? Patriotism is dead, man. Patriotism is for babies. If this case goes international law, patriotism as a justification will not fly. Patriotism in mitigation is officially fucked. Same as elites. Same as you guys.'
Like all le Carré's novels, the plot is complex. (I would recommend reading, or rereading, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold before A Legacy of Spies, as the plots of the two novels are intertwined and interdependent.) Through the eyes of one of Smiley's associates, Peter Guillam, we discover what laid the basis for the tragic events of the first novel, and how they were justified at the time.
A Legacy of Spies sets out to explain the past in order to vindicate it to the 'blameless generation'. However, in so doing it reveals an ambiguous assessment of the past. Le Carré regrets the ending of the Cold War, but cannot quite bring himself fully to defend it. In its closing pages Guillam and Smiley both reflect on their own past motivations. Guillam first: 'What about your humanity, and why did it always have to play second fiddle to some higher, more abstract cause that I can't quite put my finger on any more, if I ever could.'
Guillam's honest reflection that the game may not have been worth the candle is challenged by Smiley, but in a way that appears to be a post-hoc justification rather than a genuine motivation. 'So was it all for England then?', Smiley says; 'England all alone, a citizen of nowhere? I'm a European, Peter. If I had an unattainable ideal, it was of leading Europe out of her darkness towards a new age of reason. I have it still.'
Le Carré's well-known opposition to Brexit has led him to rewrite history, to create a fiction in just as fictional a way as the characters who want to rewrite the Cold War activities that killed their parents. A Legacy of Spies reflects the uncertainty and lack of purpose that has existed at the heart of the British establishment since the end of the Cold War. It cannot, in the end, fully defend the past because it has lost confidence in its own history and itself. For le Carré and others, 'Europe' may now be the cause, but if there is a Europe worth defending it won't be found in the post-Cold War institution of the European Union. Rather, it is to be found in that which Smiley has now abandoned, the old age of reason, and the principles of freedom, sovereignty and democracy.
This article was first published on Spiked
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/le-carre-comes-in-from-the-cold-war/20326#.WcEDmsiGPcs
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JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #8
David Andrews May 14, 2012 COMICS, DC, JUSTICE DARK, PETER MILLIGAN
[ BARGAIN BITE ]
Vampires are a pain in the ass. It's like sitting on a sharp piece of glass. Zatanna knows what I mean. Deadman is just mean. And John wants to take a hit off some grass. Unlike Writer: Peter Milligan; Artist: Daniel Sampere; and Publisher: DC Comics in May 2012. No. Their 'hits' are purely in the face.
So what's the STORY morning glory?
Part three of 'The Rise of the Vampires' cross-over event, just illustrates why you should never trust the dead. They'll stiff you for all of the wrong reasons.
Well, Madam Xanadu presumed that her three phase plan would work out alright in the end. (Step 1) Get John and Deadman to persuade Andrew Bennett to return to the land of the living. (Step 2) She, herself, will ride to the astral plane, and ask some big fat Buddah chap to 'realign' something or another back on Earth. And (3) Zatanna and Shade will defend her physical presence whilst she is doing this.
Seems like a straight forward plan, right? But no. Shade buggers off to God know where because his M-Zest goes on the blink. PLus on top of that, Caine hounds Zatanna and Xanadu with every move they make.
Sh*t! Thank God John and Deadman arrive before things get any worse. Make that two dead-men.
What is the most memorable SENTENCE OR CONVERSATION spoken in this issue?
I know that it was not meant to be funny, but I did find it amusing when Zatanna said to that Vampire 'Pord Daed!' ('Drop Dead' backwords). As if it was an appropriate thing to say to someone who is already un-dead. Ha!
What was the BEST thing about this issue?
There was an indolent tone all the way through this story, one that just did not give a toss about how people felt or why they should feel it. It is a though this book has turned into the spirit of 'Dirty Harry', and has decided what it wants to show and how it wants to show it.
OK, I know that this does sound like a strange thing to say. But think of it as a more ethereal and spiritual vibe, rather than a physical one.
What was the WORST thing about this issue?
Now I am not saying that this was the worst-worst thing that I have ever seen, but the way that the Shade just pissed off was a really strange way for him to go. One minute he's doing his hero bit. Next his Vest goes Boom for no apparent reason what so ever. And finally he walks off into the sunset with some girl.
Horses for courses I suppose.
What was the most CREATIVE thing about this issue?
STORY: The purgatory sequence was a nice one all in all. It had a nice jovial and muted exuberance compared to the rest of the tale. Plus I did enjoy watching John and Deadman's 'Abbot and Costello' act again. Also, the way that they both ripped there way out of this dimension? Ha! Pure Nicholson.
ART: The splash pages and the colouring are really great on this book. I've seen some of Daniel Sampere's recent work on 'Wolverine'. But it did not look as polished as it does now, thanks to digital colourist, Admira Wijaya. Clean. Sharp. And jam packed with style.
If you had to CAST TWO CHARACTERS in this comic book, who would they be and why?
CAINE: Doesn't one time 'He Man', Dolph Lundgren, look like he could take charge of an army of the un-dead? Look behind the eyes. No emotion.
SHADES GIRL, KATHY: Jennifer Connelly always looked like the type of an actress who would fall in love with a nut. She did it in 'The Hulk' movie, huh? So it is possible.
If this issue had a MOVIE TAG LINE, what would it be?
Never Trust The Vampires With Your Washing. You'd Never Get The Blood Stains Out.
If this issue were a MOVIE, an OBJECT, or a piece of MUSIC, what would that be and why?
OK, so in this story something unexpected happens twice. Plus it has a rather punk edge to it too. Hmmm. 'God Save The Queen ' by the Sex Pistols? Why not.
FINAL thoughts...
Compared to some of the other instalments of this series, I am afraid to say that this one was not that great a read. Please note, I am not trying to say that it was a naff read. Far from it. Instead, I just found the whole thing to be a bit too blatant as a stepping stone story towards a conclusion.
It was redeemed by its own 'personality' though.
MARKS out of 10? 7.5
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #8 Reviewed by David Andrews on May 14, 2012 Rating: 5


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Inventory of the George C. Perkins Estate Records In the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research LibraryProcessed by: Jalien Hollister; machine-readable finding aid created by: Emily EstenFunds for processing this collection were provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Inventory of the George C. Perkins Estate Records In the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
Inventory of the George C. Perkins Estate Records
George C. Perkins Estate Records
George C. Perkins, 1921-2005
3.25 linear feet
Collection of papers, correspondence, documents, and ships papers purchased from the estate of George C. Perkins (1921-2005), a partner in the law firm of Crapo, Clifford, Prescott, Bullard, and McLeod, bulk dates 1860-1920
William Wallace Crapo was born in 1830 and died in 1926. Mr. Crapo was the son of Henry Howland Crapo.(1804-1869) He was the head of the law firm Crapo, Clifford & Clifford and later, Crapo, Clifford, Prescott and Bullard. He was engaged in the prosecution on behalf of the New Bedford whalemen in the "Alabama Claims" whereby the British Government paid $15,000,000 to the U.S. Government for losses suffered due to the collusion of the British with the Confederate privateers. Mr. Crapo was president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society from 1903 to 1908.
Henry Howland Crapo (2) (1862-1951) was the eldest son of William Wallace Crapo. He was born in 1862 and in 1887 become a member of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford. Mr. Crapo was president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society from 1938 to 1940.
Charles Warren Clifford, eldest son of Gov. John Henry Clifford was born in 1844. In 1869 he became a member of Marston & Crapo until its dissolution in 1878. He then became a partner in the firm of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford where he remained for 45 years. He was counsel for the owners of the Cape Horn Pigeon (Bark) and took part in the arbitration between the U.S. and Russia at the Hague. He died in 1923.
Walter Clifford was the second son of Gov. John Henry Clifford. He was born in 1849. He become the managing clerk for the law office of Marston & Crapo and from 1878 until his death 34 years later, was a partner in the firm of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford, later Crapo, Clifford & Prescott, then Crapo, Clifford Prescott & Bullard. He died in 1913.
Oliver Prescott (second) was the grandson of Judge Oliver Prescott. Oliver Prescott was a member of Crapo, Clifford, Prescott and Bullard. He died in 1938.
John H. Clifford (1879-1950) grandson of Gov. John Henry Clifford and son of Walter Clifford, was a member of the firm Crapo, Clifford, Prescott & Bullard.
George Marston was born in 1821. He became an associate of W. W. Crapo in 1869 and established the firm of Marston & Crapo. That firm continued for nine years and upon the dissolution of the partnership it then became Marston & Cobb. He died in 1883.
George C. Perkins (1921-2005) was a partner in the law firm of Crapo, Clifford, Prescott, Bullard and McLeod. Mr. Perkins was one of the founders of the New Bedford historic architecture preservationorganization WHALE (the Waterfront Historic Area League).
The law firm of Crapo, Clifford, Prescott and Bullard is a descendant of the firm of Coffin (Timothy G.) and Clifford (John H.), 1830-1834. In succession came the partnerships of Colby and Clifford, Clifford and Brigham, Brigham and Stone, Stone and Crapo, Marston and Crapo, and Crapo, Clifford and Clifford, the latter formed in 1878. Mr. Crapo's partners and associates were Joshua C. Stone, George Marston, Wendell H. Cobb, Charles W. Clifford, Walter Clifford, Frederick S.C. Bartlett, Henry H. Crapo (second), Oliver Prescott (second), John H. Clifford (second) John M. Bullard, Oliver Prescott (third) and Bryant Prescott.
This collection of papers and documents represents a small portion of the contents of the law off ices of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford and its descendants. Other related papers and documents from this law office can be found in Accessions 2010.33 and 2011.24. The ships papers represent additional materials that may be found in these collections. The ships papers include the correspondence and depositions related to those ships and is arranged chronologically. They contain a great deal of information concerning particular cases such as the Cape Horn Pigeon and thePioneer. A large portion of the correspondence of the individual partners consists of short notes regarding court schedules and other administrative issues but it also contains letters regarding important legal cases and laws.
Other materials are related to the 1st Congregational Society of New Bedford and C.W. Clifford's efforts to raise funds for a new building.
Included are a number of stock certificates from various corporations as well as a variety of bank checks, demand notes and the like.
Series I: Ship Related Correspondence and Documents, 1847-1925
Series II: Correspondence, 1851-1966
Series III: Legal Documents and Papers, 1805-1898
Series IV: Financial Documents, 1805-1958
Series V: Correspondence and Documents Related to C.W. Clifford and the First Congregational Society, 1886-1896
Series VI: Additional Unassociated Material and Ephemera, 1861-1918
The Old-Dartmouth Historical Society - New Bedford Whaling Museum acquired materials in this collection as part of Accession #2011.106
This series contains the papers, correspondence, and records of vessels and related shipping documents as they relate to legal cases in which they are involved. These papers are arranged alphabetically.
This series contains the correspondence of the partners of the law firm of Crapo, Crapo and Clifford and its other iterations. The first sub-series consists of the correspondence from and to the law firm in general. The second sub-series contains the correspondence of the individual partners of the firm.
This series consists of the legal documents relating to the clients of the Firm.
This series contains financial documentsrelated to various partners as well as clients of the Firm. They are arranged by type: checks, demand notes, receipts and stock certificates.
This is a group of documents and correspondence from Charles W. Clifford's papers.
Series VI: Additional Unassociated Material and Ephemera
This series contains ephemera and materials that are unrelated to the collection.


IPOH: A Form Four student, who complained of abdominal pains, excused herself from taking part in sports activities only to secretly deliver a baby girl at her school.
She delivered the baby at 1.30pm yesterday at the sick bay of her school in Manjung, about 90km from here. The baby, with its umbilical cord still attached, was found dead in a bag belonging to the student.
Manjung OCPD Asst Comm Zainuddin Yaacob, however, declined to say if the newborn was premature or not.
The growing number of teenage pregnancy is indeed alarming! I can't help but sympathize with the child that was brought forth into the world out of wedlock & the sin of immature youths. These 'innocent' children are trapped in the womb for about 9 months, just to have their lives ended as soon as they receive their first breath of air. *sigh* In addition, the girl also had to go through such agony (without finding the joy of motherhood, as most mothers say) of bearing another life in her due to her mistakes (and the guy's mistakes as well!), & suffer the effects of the sin for a lifetime.


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He's making the most of it, too. "At the minute, I work four to five days a week at Bolton Golf Club while studying for my PGA degree," he explains. "I'm in the gym at six in the morning, and then I'll stay late hitting balls on the range. I try to practise every day if I can because my passion is playing."
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require './test/support/repository_support'

class TestExtensionsErrata < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase

  def self.before_suite
    @@extension = Runcible::Extensions::Errata
    VCR.insert_cassette('extensions/errata', :match_requests_on => [:method, :path, :params, :body_json])
    RepositorySupport.create_and_sync_repo(:importer => true)
  end

  def self.after_suite
    RepositorySupport.destroy_repo
    VCR.eject_cassette
  end

  def test_all
    response = @@extension.all

    assert_equal 200, response.code
    refute_empty response
  end

  def test_find
    id = @@extension.all.sort_by{|p| p['id']}.first['id']
    response = @@extension.find(id)

    refute_empty response
    assert_equal id, response['id']
  end

  def test_find_by_unit_id
    id = @@extension.all.sort_by{|p| p['id']}.first['_id']
    response = @@extension.find_by_unit_id(id)

    refute_empty response
    assert_equal id, response['_id']
  end

  def test_find_unknown
    response = @@extension.find_all(['f'])

    assert_empty response
  end

  def test_find_all_by_unit_ids
    id = @@extension.all.sort_by{|p| p['_id']}.first['_id']
    response = @@extension.find_all_by_unit_ids([id])

    refute_empty response
    assert_equal id, response.first['_id']
  end

  def test_find_all
    pkgs = @@extension.all.sort_by{|p| p['id']}
    ids = pkgs[0..2].collect{|p| p['id']}
    response = @@extension.find_all(ids)

    assert_equal 200, response.code
    assert_equal ids.length, response.length
  end

end

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Q: Woocomerce как исключить (спрятать) товары из каталога магазина и результата поиска? Допустим, у нас есть такая функция:
must_be_hide($post_id) {
  $bool = in_array($post_id, array(1, 2, 3, 4 ,5));
  return $bool;
}

Как при помощи такой функции скрыть продукты из каталога (query) и из результатов поиска? В сети находил - как спрятать категорию товаров, а как скрыть продукты по id не могу понять...

A: Ок, спасибо Ponio - код для того чтобы прятать товары по id выглядит как-то так:
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'hide_from_query' );
function hide_from_query($q) {

    // id товаров которые нужно прятать
    $exclude_ids = array(18, 24);

        // Если это не админ и не карточка товара
        if ( ! $q->is_main_query() || is_admin() || is_single()) {
            return;
        }

        if ( $exclude_ids ) {

            $taxquery = array(
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
                    'field'    => 'id',
                    'operator' => 'NOT IN'
                )
            );

            $q->set( 'tax_query', $taxquery );

            /*
            // Раскоментируй если хочешь прятать карточку товара

            if ( is_single() ) {
                $q->set( 'post__not_in', $exclude_ids );
                return;
            }
            */
            $q->set( 'post__not_in', $exclude_ids );
        }

        return;
}

Это работает и для результатов поиска.


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When No One Wants 'Em–Search Strategy
HUI represents unhedged miners. In January 2016, the HUI dipped to $99.13 then rose 2.84 xs to $286 when the $BPGDM, Bullish Percentage Index, was less than 15%. Then in mid-July the bullish percentage was 100%! Prices dipped, but then made a marginal new high. Sentiment is not an EXACT timing device. Now, the index is near 7% bullish after a 37% decline and four months. Talk about swings in sentiment. Buy high and sell low. Interest rates are rising, gold is falling, the dollar rising, so who would be in the stupid 7%?
Update: Nov. 27th, 2016
As of Nov. 27th, not every data point shows a turn in the gold market, but bearishness quite high. https://monetary-metals.com/good-news-and-bad-news-report-27-november-2016/
gold-stocks-bullish-sentiment-nov-16th-2016 Assuming you have found cheap, well-capitalized miners, developers and/or explorers, there is a time to buy and a time to sell. I think this is a time to be greedy when others are fearful. Also, if this was a sell-off after a long bull market (not a six month rally) where large amounts of capital investment entered mining, then bullishness might be less warranted. ey-m-a-exchange-performance-comparison Place information into context. A good read: commodity-resource-stocks An investment only a mother could love.
HUI in relation to the Dow Jones. Be careful, though, the starting and ending periods are deceptive. The point is that miners have been scorned despite or even because the recent rally/sell-off.
Positive Signs: Juniors holding better than Senior Producers
As deep value contrarians, we aren't able to have absolute certainty, but we can put probability on our side along with the laws of supply and demand. If you don't feel ill when buying your resource stocks, then don't do it. Forcing yourself through the fear (assuming you have done your homework) to ACT, is the key.
Investors fleeing the miners over the past few weeks
Update Nov. 30th 2016
If we are in a bull market, then a healthy position, but more to go if we are in a bear market. But base metals continue to show strength.
Recent headlines imply near total bearishness:
Battered Gold Looks at Risk of Further Thumping
Ranjeetha Pakiam
November 29, 2016 — 5:00 PM EST November 30, 2016 — 4:49 AM EST
ABN Amro, OCBC see bullion dropping to $1,100 by end of 2017
Higher interest rates, stronger dollar seen pressuring gold
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
The worst is yet to come. At least that's the opinion of the top two gold forecasters who say bullion will suffer further losses in 2017 as interest rates climb and the dollar strengthens.
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and ABN Amro Group NV see gold sliding to $1,100 an ounce by the end of next year as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, real Treasury yields increase and the U.S. currency rises. Prices were at $1,185.77 Wednesday. The banks were ranked first and second as forecasters in the third quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
After briefly soaring to $1,337.38 as it became clear that Donald Trump was about to pull off a shock victory in the U.S. presidential election, gold slumped to a nine-month low of $1,171.18 last week on speculation that his pledges to increase spending and revitalize the economy would boost interest rates and augment the attraction of other investments such as stocks and bonds.
"From an investor point of view there is little reason to hold gold," said Georgette Boele, a currency and commodity strategist at ABN Amro. "Rising inflation expectations are more than countered by the rise in U.S. Treasury yields and expectations about upcoming rate hikes by the Fed. As long as real yields rise and there are no major inflation fears, prices will go lower."
Global bond yields have climbed to 1.58 percent from a record low 1.07 percent in July, according to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index. The odds of the Federal Reserve hiking in December are 100 percent, up from 69 percent a month ago, before the election, and a gauge of the dollar against its major peers surged to the highest level since at least 2005 last week.
Gold is set for its worst month in more than three years, with investors dumping bullion at the fastest pace since 2013. Assets in bullion-backed exchange-traded funds have shrunk 5.3 percent in November, the biggest monthly drop since June of that year. Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller sold all his gold on election night. "All the reasons I owned it for the last couple of years seem to be ending," he said in a CNBC interview shortly after the vote.
In the month through Monday, investors pulled $4.4 billion from exchange-traded funds backed by precious metals, the biggest redemption among all asset classes offered in such funds globally that are tracked by Bloomberg. Money is moving out of gold and other precious metals as U.S. equities rally to a record and traders boost bets on further rate increases.
Boele from ABN Amro sees the negative environment for gold continuing into next year, with a recovery for prices expected in 2018. The bank cut its prediction for the end of 2017 from $1,150. Before the U.S. election, Boele was already bearish, lowering her outlook in October.
Barnabas Gan, an economist at OCBC in Singapore, was predicting $1,100 by the end of next year before the U.S. election. He kept to that view in a note on Monday and cut his call for the end of this year to $1,200 from $1,300. He's factoring in three rates hikes — one in December and two in 2017 — which will drag bullion down to his target by the end of next year.
"Political uncertainties continue to persist," Gan said. "Note the upcoming Italian referendum as well as next year's French election. Contrast this with the relative certainty over U.S. economic growth under President-elect Trump's proposed fiscal plans which gives rise to reflationary and higher U.S. rates expectations into 2017."
Risk Appetite
While Gan and Boele already saw lower prices for next year before the U.S. election, a Trump win was interpreted as bullish in a Bloomberg survey of more than 20 traders and analysts published before the vote. A victory for the Republican was seen pushing Comex gold futures to $1,395 within a week. Instead, the reverse happened.
Not everyone is bearish going into 2017. Bullion may average $1,300 next year, says Robin Bhar, head of metals research at Societe Generale SA in London, the third-best gold forecaster in the data compiled by Bloomberg.
"All in all, gold prices are at the mercy of risk appetite. Buying on dips is likely to provide support given a view that gold is a good portfolio diversifier, hedge, insurance policy," Bhar said in an e-mail last week. At the same time, he acknowledged the downside risks because changes in fiscal policy could push real interest rates higher, offsetting haven demand.
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Bush's War Stories Simply Don't Fly
George W. Bush lied about his military service record. The lie can be found in his own 1999 campaign autobiography
By Joe Conason • 02/02/04 12:00am
George W. Bush lied about his military service record. The lie can be found in his own 1999 campaign autobiography (as written by Karen Hughes), where he dramatically describes his experience as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
On page 34 of A Charge to Keep, Mr. Bush claims that, after learning to fly the F-102 fighter jet, he was turned down for Vietnam duty because "had not logged enough flight hours" to qualify for a combat assignment. Before going on to recall the "challenging moments" that involved close formation drills at night during poor weather, he adds: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years."
In light of what journalists and other researchers have learned since the publication of Mr. Bush's book, his account is unmistakably fraudulent.
The issue is again relevant because Michael Moore, the author and filmmaker who supports Wesley Clark's Presidential campaign, recently impugned the President as a "deserter." During the final Democratic Presidential debate in New Hampshire, moderator Peter Jennings called Mr. Moore's statement "a reckless charge not supported by the facts," and demanded that General Clark repudiate his celebrity backer.
As the ABC newsman may (or, more likely, may not) know, the facts about the President's National Guard stint are complex, disputed and, in many respects, unflattering. To call him a "deserter" was wrong and inflammatory, even if Mr. Moore was joking, as he now insists. Although Mr. Bush may well have been absent without leave, he was never prosecuted for that offense, let alone desertion, and he eventually received an honorable discharge. But to suggest that the Bush record is beyond criticism, as Mr. Jennings did, is both misleading and biased. That bias reflects an enduring double standard on this topic that has protected Mr. Bush ever since he first declared his Presidential candidacy.
The facts, established by Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson in 2000, explode the lyrical flights of fancy penned by Ms. Hughes.
George W. Bush graduated from Yale in June 1968. After his father's influential friends contacted Texas Air National Guard officials, they awarded young George a safe berth in Houston's famed "champagne unit," where sons of the Texas elite avoided Vietnam. His very special treatment included instant admission to flight training and an extraordinary commission as a second lieutenant. According to his former superiors, Mr. Bush performed admirably as a pilot while patrolling the coastal waters of the United States.
But in May 1972, only 22 months after he completed pilot training, he stopped flying. In August 1972, he failed to show up for his annual physical examination and was automatically grounded. According to The Times of London, a conservative newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, Mr. Bush's campaign spokesman said he knew that he would be suspended if he missed that physical.
He never flew a military aircraft again (or not until his flight-suit photo op last spring, when he briefly took the controls of an S-3B Viking jet before landing on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln ). Instead, he left his Guard unit in Houston and went to Alabama to work in a Republican Senate campaign. He claims to have continued to serve in an Alabama Guard unit, but there is no evidence to support that assertion, and much contradictory evidence. The commanding officer of the Alabama Guard Unit told the Boston Globe that Mr. Bush never showed up for duty there. Nor is there any evidence that he sought duty in Vietnam.
In fact, there is considerable evidence that Mr. Bush skipped all duty for a full year, until April 1973. At that point, his two superior officers in Houston noted in writing in an official document: "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report." They erroneously believed that he had been completing his duty in Alabama. Yet he somehow received an honorable discharge eight months before he completed his six-year commitment so that he could begin attending Harvard Business School.
As the Globe noted, the "champagne unit" and others like it back then displayed "a tendency to excuse shirking by those with political connections."
So Mr. Bush's claim that he "continued flying with my unit for the next several years" is an unabashed falsehood. Yet the spotty coverage of his military record in the mainstream press-aside from the Globe investigation and similar efforts in the Dallas Morning News and the Los Angeles Times -elided that lie. Compare his soft treatment with the media scourging of Bill Clinton, who was held accountable during the 1992 campaign for every word he uttered about his draft record.
What the Jennings episode validates is not Mr. Bush's strange military career, but the Bush method of press management. Treat journalists like vassals, with nicknames, cheek-pinching and-whenever they forget their place momentarily-sneering disdain. It works brilliantly.
Filed Under: Peter Jennings, Michael Moore, Vietnam
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Q: pass cookie from http response via nginx proxy I have a problem with passing my cookie when I'm running an nginx as a proxy (in a docker container). Here is my configuration of my nginx proxy:
    location /test {
            proxy_pass http://test-backend:8080;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    }

When I run my backend without the proxy I have the cookie in my response. However, if I run it using the proxy the cookie is not being passed through the proxy. What kind of setting am I missing?


There's something very interesting about the ancient city of Hierapolis in Turkey, located near the cities of Laodicea and Colossae, both known to us from the New Testament writings, including today's second reading. This city had wonderful natural hot springs and in Roman times was known to be a place to come for healing in those baths. However, if you visit the archaeological site, you'll also notice that very close to those baths is the largest ancient cemetery in all of Turkey – it's immense. Now I don't know about you, but having an enormous cemetery right outside a major center for healing is not the thing that inspires confidence in the care or the cure. You certainly don't see cemeteries outside modern hospitals, for good reason.
But having a cemetery outside a church is very common, isn't it? Look at us – we have a cemetery, our columbarium, right here in our sanctuary! We can't avoid its reality each time we come together to worship. But it has an entirely different feeling for us. That's because the answer we give to pain and suffering is quite different than that of medicine. When a doctor has used up every medicine, every cure, at some point that doctor has to tell a patient that there is no more to be done. As Christians, we never reach that point. There's always one more word, one more thing –that we have a promise that death is not the end of this journey. So a cemetery inside a church is a word of promise, not a word of defeat. And that's a huge difference. And on this Sunday we celebrate Christ Jesus as our ruler, our king, we proclaim that Jesus rules in a very different way as well. Like looking at a cemetery and seeing promise, we look at Jesus where he looks least like a king to the world, and we see our hope and our life.
We see the difference in this powerful moment just before Jesus dies.
One of the criminals crucified with him, in pain and agony just like Jesus, looks at Jesus and sees a king. It's hard to imagine what led him to his request – it's a pretty clear definition of tying one's cart to a dying horse. There's nothing for the criminal outwardly to hope for here – this man is dying just as he is, and there's no prospect of him miraculously getting off the cross, let alone helping the other two down. It's like looking at a cemetery and seeing hope.
There's also no sense in this believing criminal that he can have earned special consideration from Jesus, even if he's right that Jesus is somehow a king. He's a criminal, he's got nothing that commends him or his life. He'll be dead before sundown. And yet he says, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." And in that he shows a faith in a reality that is completely unseen, but that in fact is the deepest truth about God's coming to us in Jesus that we can ever know.
And this is the faith that we seek as well. You see, like having a cemetery inside a church building, the Church claims that Jesus is in charge, ruler of the universe, but that he rules from the cross.
This way of Jesus is so radically different it will seem like foolishness, sometimes even to us.
It goes against all worldly assumptions about power and rule. From our politics, which have evolved to people running for office not to govern but simply to be in power and retain that power, to our daily lives, we still operate as if being in control is the main thing. And whatever we want of our leaders, we don't want weak ones, we want – or at least our polls seem to say we want – strong ones, uncompromising people.
But clearly Jesus is not strong here, and is not giving off the sense of power or rule. Look at the questions, the mocking, thrown at him on the cross: Let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God! If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself! The assumption is a true King would save himself. What kind of king or Messiah would let himself be killed as a criminal? The world has no way to comprehend the servant leadership of Jesus.
But the only time in the Gospel stories of his trial and execution that Jesus admits to being a king, except for once in the trial before Caiaphas where he asserts that he is the Messiah, is not when Pilate asks him, not when people mock him as king, but only when the criminal next to him acknowledges Jesus' kingship: "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Then, and only then, does Jesus reveal who he is, by promising the condemned man that he will be with Jesus in paradise that very day.
Jesus preaches, and lives out, a kingdom of God that is the world turned upside down. But as one author has said, Jesus comes to us standing up, but we've been standing on our heads so long we think he's the one who's upside down. In the kingdom of God, the greatest are the least: the weak, the wounded and broken, the children, the oppressed. And the King, the Son of God, is the lowest, the servant – down in the dirt with the people, suffering on a cross to destroy death.
And here's the other truth about our King, Jesus Christ: he's exactly the king we really need. Because what he would have us learn is that life is only fulfilling and abundant for us when we follow his way, and that the way of the world, while looking like a way to life, is only a way of death.
Our King invites us to follow his way, to give up use of power and manipulation and live by love. And so to learn what real life is.
It means we will be taken advantage of by those who play by the power rules of the world. But that's OK – that's OK – so was our King, and he will help us through it.
The alternative is not a way we want to live: that we control others, dominate others, manipulate others. Imagine a life fully lived that way: it would be terrible. I've never gotten my way by force or coercion and been happy about the final result, never. It's always an empty victory.
The truth of giving up power and serving like our King serves is that it's the only way to really have life. Exercising power over people may get your way more than not. But ultimately it will corrupt you, and leave you with empty victories. Giving, sharing, caring, losing like our King loses, may look like the fool's way out. But ultimately it leads to incredible relationships with people, rich, fulfilling love, and joy even when others don't understand us. And this abundant life is ours now, and in the world to come, because in giving up everything for our sake, our King conquered death itself, and actually won by losing.
So we're left in the position of the criminal here – can we see Jesus as the king he actually is, in spite of what looks so different and unexpected?
Can we look at a way that seems to be a losing way, a way that to the world looks like a dead end, like a cemetery, like a dying King, and see hope and life? We know so much more than that criminal – we know that Jesus is risen, we know that he is Lord of the universe. But he will still rule in this way, from the cross, from suffering, from self-giving love. And life in God's kingdom is following our leader in servanthood and love. Christians who willingly live that way know the joy of life in ways no one in the world's power game would ever know.
And that's the true secret of faith. God fill us with such faith in our servant King, and give us the strength and grace to follow in the same way, that we might find life truly worth living, now and always.


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