Jeff Thomas
Jeff Thomas is British. He has lived multi-nationally since childhood, but resides primarily in the Caribbean. The son of an economist and historian, he learned early to question governments as a general principle. He has bought precious metals throughout his adult life. A confirmed contrarian and independent thinker, he describes his “qualifications” as not having pursued a degree in conventional economics at university, having been surrounded with those from the financial industry, while not relying on that industry for income and having chosen early in life to avoid residing in countries where he could not control his own future. Although he spent his career creating and developing businesses, he has also written regularly for over thirty years on Austrian economics, personal liberty and limiting government. He is a feature writer for International Man, in addition to being published frequently in other publications.
- The Necessity of Human Action
- How Close Should Your Wealth Be?
- “When Will They Learn?”
- The Sandcastle
- The Brain Drain
- Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold
- From Crisis To Confiscation—Where Do I Store My Wealth?
- You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll Be Happy
- Capitalism—A New Idea
- An End to Progress
- Police State in Slo-Mo
- Fasten Your Seat Belt
- The Future of Direct Taxation
- Democracy – the Illusion of Liberty
- Is This What You Call Being Prepared?
- What Everyone Needs to Know About the Financial and Political Turmoil Right Now
- It Will Happen Suddenly
- National Fire Sale
- Running on Empty
- Escaping the Socioeconomic Bullseye
- Where’s Your Loyalty?
- Trapping Wild Pigs
- Will Globalism Self-Destruct?
- Government-Enforced Racism and Sexism
- Which New World Order Are We Talking About?
- The Slavery Contract
- The Ebb and Flow of the Tides of Nations
- The Most Popular Reasons for Going Down with the Ship
- Don’t Dismiss the Possibility of Gold Confiscation
- The Outcome of War with Russia
- Why the COVID Delusion Continues
- When All Crimes Are Those Against the State
- Leave Home
- Why Flatulent Cows Matter
- Runaway Slaves
- Inflation: Your Role as a Milk Cow
- Obeisance to the “Greater Good”
- Like So Much Mulberry Bark
- When in Rome
- There Goes the Neighbourhood
- Looking Forward
- What to Do When COVID Tyranny Returns
- Viva la Revolución?
- Is Collectivism Inevitable?
- Babson’s Warning
- Where Not to Be in a Crisis
- The Scary Truth About Living in Big Cities During the Turbulent Times Ahead
- Duesenberg in a Barn
- The Elimination of Reason
- When Empires Die
- The Fourth Turning Tipping Point
- Where Do You Go in a Hurricane?
- Bad News Comes in Small Packages
- Can You Afford To Eat?
- Stop Believing
- Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
- They Wouldn’t Really Go Nuclear, Would They?
- “Living” Wherever You Go
- Keeping Wealth Safe
- Size Matters
- Hiding from Opportunity
- Taxation=Theft
- The Cycle of Freedom
- Sanctimania
- Love It or Leave?
- “It’s a Sorry Rabbit That Has Only One Hole”
- Nine Meals from Anarchy
- Giving Anarchy a Bad Name
- Are You Easy Prey?
- No Way Out for the USA
- Seventeen-Year Locusts and Eighty-Year Wokists
- “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You…”
- CBDCs – The Pied Piper
- If a Tree Falls in a Forest…
- The All-Important Doorman
- The Sky is Falling
- Learning from Ants
- What Would a Nuclear War Look Like?
- What Would Be the Aftermath of a Globalist Failure?
- Will Globalism Succeed?
- Hidden in Plain View
- The End of Tax Havens?
- Navigating the Fourth Turning
- The Frogs Will Boil Themselves
- Falling From Grace
- Question Everything
- Is There Hope for the US?
- The Right to Bear Arms
- Choosing Your Immigrants
- It’s Not the End of the World
- The Dynamics of a Riot
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt
- Are They Really Out to Get Me?
- National Self-Perception
- The Coming of Corporate Collectivism
- The Benefits of Economic Collapse
- “Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore”
- The Retention of Wealth
- Food Crisis—The Greatest Threat to Social Stability
- The Great Depression II
- Tax Havens and the Greedy Rich
- The Next Empire
- Who’s Got the Gold?
- The Need for Information Filtration
- Boiling the Frog
- Rulers Seek to Rule
- “Capitalism Has Failed”
- Seeking a Spirit Of Benevolence
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- When Idiocy Becomes Hardwired
- Are Governments Running Out of Candy?
- The Economic Bubble Bath
- The Old Tablecloth Trick
- Minimising Government’s Dominance over Your Life
- The Writing on the Wall
- When a Train Wreck Is No Accident
- Going the Way of the Denarius
- The Triumph of Collectivism
- The First Libertarian?
- If It Gets Bad, I’ll Go to Idaho
- Quantitative Brainwashing
- The Final Blowout Sale
- The New World Order, Courtesy of Rube Goldberg
- The Misconception of the “Man of System”
- Defining Liberty
- “The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined.”
- A Question of Timing
- Get an Education
- The Blind Leading the Clueless
- The American Republikflucht
- Complain But Remain
- Will Global COVID Relief Efforts Renew the US and European Influence Worldwide?
- The Freedom Fairy
- When the Money Supply Dries Up
- Expatriate to Protect Your Retirement from Inflation
- To Humbly Submit
- The Extreme Polarization in US Politics… and The Impact of Localism in Smaller Countries
- Escaping Serfdom
- How Empires End
- The Real Reason Behind Janet Yellen’s Global Tax… What You Should Do Now
- Bus Driver Economics
- Here Comes the Bretton Woods Choo-Choo
- Will the New World Order Succeed?
- Kool-Aid Time
- Figures Don’t Lie, but Liars Figure
- Disaster and Opportunity
- Why the New Paradigm Was Inevitable
- The New Reichstag Fire
- America in the Post-Freedom Era
- The Coming New Order
- Systemic Self-Destruction
- Watch Out for the Shoeshine Boys
- The Disappearing Retirement Fund
- The Price of Freedom Comes Down
- Winding Up Americans
- The Greatest Swindle in American History… And How They’ll Try It Again Soon
- The Rise of Voodoo Economics
- Manufactured Uncertainty
- Deciding When to Jump from the Boiling Pot
- The American Revolution—The Sequel
- When Will the Divisiveness End?
- Learning from Fidel
- The Nuclear Election
- The Trojan Donkey
- Systemic Chaos
- The Wheat-field Principle
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- The Twilight Zone
- The War for Dependence
- The Big Skedaddle
- Buy This Pillow and Change Your Unhappy Life
- Living in the Roach Motel
- Why the Police Must Be Removed from the Equation
- Choosing the Wrong Future
- The Lighting of the Fuse
- The Coronavirus Panic: It All Makes Complete Sense
- Time to Get Out of Dodge?
- The Top Banana
- “Make the Lie Big…”
- The Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy
- “When No Man Has a Farthing…”
- “Act Before Things Exist”
- Licensed Liberty
- The New and Improved Propaganda
- The Inherent Weakness of FATCA
- Korea Reunified?
- The Real Reason for the Shocking New Developments in the War on Cash
- “The People’s Democratic Dictatorship”
- Tweets of Mass Destruction
- Revisiting the Hanoi Hilton
- From Williamsburg to Athens
- Central Bankers Reveal the Next Phase in Their War on Savers
- The Odds of Getting a Good Leader
- An Empire Self-Destructs
- A Normal Country
- Farewell to Paper Money?
- “The Fight Started When He Hit Me Back”
- Betting on a Pair of Deuces
- Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction
- On the Ground in Hong Kong
- All It Takes Is a Slipup or a Nudge
- Dinner in Hanoi
- Prioritizing Your Exit Plan
- Following the Greater Depression on eBay
- Infectious Insanity
- Will the US Become a Socialist Country?
- Brothers in Arms
- Pressing the Escape Key
- Conquering the Earth
- Those Who Seek to Rule
- Will They Take All Your Money?
- Starving Billionaire
- Promise The Moon
- Why Irrational Socialist Schemes Must be Implemented
- False Flag Time
- Ensuring the Worst Possible Leadership
- The Peasants’ Revolt
- Eliminating Free Speech The Smart Way
- All That’s Missing Is a Black Swan
- Time to Become a Hindu
- Diocletian in Venezuela
- The Sine Wave of History
- The Bank Is Being Robbed
- “Now Is the Time of Monsters”
- The Return of the Deodand
- Hobson’s Choice
- “Into the Valley of Death”
- The French Revolution (The Sequel)
- The Generation that Will Save the World
- Milgram Morality in the 21st Century
- Offshore Gold Storage
- “The Federals Are Coming!”
- Planned Demolition
- The American Dream
- First, Secure the Borders
- The Future of Privacy
- The People Give the Orders and the Government Obeys
- Professional Wrestling and the Media
- Services Rendered
- Where Should I Go?
- The Value in Being of Little Consequence
- The Coming of the Roman Tax Collectors
- These Amps Go Up to Eleven
- The Depression Playbook
- Investing in Collapse
- The Great Oz
- Brinkmanship
- Future Currency—Gold and Silver?
- The Inevitability of Snollygosters
- The End of the Debt-As-Currency Era
- Preparing for War
- The American Revolution in Two Acts
- Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
- Tariffs—Reverse Gear in the Economic Transmission
- Think Independently; Act Decisively
- Why Your Broker May Break You
- The US vs. China: A Study in Opposites
- The US and China: A Difference in Approaches
- Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
- The Origin of the Separation of Church and State
- The Trump Monster
- More to Come…
- The Endlessness of a Temporary Tax
- Kite in a Tree
- The Magic Trick
- Political Pizza
- “Tilt! Game Over”
- Where Does It End?
- What Will Push Them Over the Edge?
- The Black Market: The Embryonic Free Market
- The Unwelcome Mat
- Future Headlines
- Gold as the Monetary Sun
- The End Is Nigh
- Three Faces of Bitcoin
- The American Ideal
- Say Goodbye to Your Safe Deposit Box
- The Madhouse
- The Race Against Time
- Killing the Goose
- The Second Half of the Pincer
- Dear Abby
- Zimbabwe: When the Black Market Becomes the Real Market
- Feeding Frenzy
- For Every Action, There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
- A Tale of Two Leaders
- The Escape From Collectivism
- When Might the Pillaging End?
- Selling the Golden Goose
- Why the EU Was Doomed From the Start
- Creating Another “Crash of 1929”
- So Many Triggers
- The Candlemakers’ Petition
- Couldn’t Hit an Elephant
- The Dancing Bears
- Beware the Ides of March
- The Sinking of the Lord Clive
- Fight of the Century
- 20/20
- “We Will Bury You”
- Under New Management
- Three Strikes—You’re Out!
- The Future of Passports and Citizenship by Investment
- A Voice in the Wilderness
- Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow
- A Chicken in Every Pot
- Welcome to Hooverville
- This Is Where I Get Off
- The Scenic Route to Hell
- Should I Vote Repocrat or Demublican?
- The Sedition Act: The Bad Penny Returns
- Why Socialism is Here to Stay
- Betting on Crazylegs in the Final Race
- Seeking Galt’s Gulch
- The Darwin Awards for Nations
- Picking Up the UK Tab
- Rebirth of a Nation
- Musical Chairs
- If You Can’t Touch It, You Don’t Own It
- When Will They Learn?
- The Emperor Has No Clothes
- Burning Down the House
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road
- Predicting the Efficacy of a Coming Revolution
- Wheelbarrow Economics
- Obama’s Cuban Ambitions as Seen by Cubans Themselves
- The First Casualty Is Truth
- There Might Be Dragons (the Fear of Internationalization)
- The Nature of a Career Politician
- Failure of the War on Cash
- Chang and Eng / The US and Canada
- The Danger of Media Blackout
- The Two-Party Illusion
- Rothschild: USA Is the New Switzerland
- The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation
- Surely This Problem Won’t Affect Me
- The International War on Cash
- Voluntary Enslavement
- Et Tu, Brute? (How Empires Die)
- Should You Think Like an Indian?
- Weimar Greece – The Effects of a Currency Collapse
- Seeking a Saviour
- Winning, but Losing, at the Penny-Pitch: A Look at the Coming Collapse of the European Union
- The Delirium of Milliards – How Monetary Heroin Tempts Hyperinflation
- Get Ready for Crazy
- Catalonia and the Move Against Empires
- Schadenfreude—How the US Is Helping China Create a New Financial Order
- The Next “Greece”
- Leaving the Eye of the Hurricane
- Confusing Inevitable with Imminent
- Deflation on the Horizon
- A Flock of Black Swans
- The Highwayman
- Preparing for a Potential Economic Collapse in October
- Your Gold Is Only as Good as Where You Store It
- The Beginning of the End for the EU?
- Cashtration
- The Benefits of an Inefficient Government
- Ending the Ownership of Money
- Spendable Gold
- The Economic Alamo
- The New World Order—A Faustian Bargain
- The New World Order—A Faustian Bargain
- The End of the Safe Deposit Box for Wealth Storage
- Redefining “Country”
- The Crowning Glory of Keynesianism
- Prove You’re Not a Terrorist
- The Future of Passports
- What Will Happen to You When the Dollar Collapses?
- Capital Punishment
- Not Quite Ready to Go?
- Dead Currency Walking?
- “Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution”
- America’s Berlin Wall
- Ditching the Dollar
- And the World Was Split in Twain
- Venezuela—The Sequel
- Venezuela—The Sequel
- Diocletian for President
- The Day Freedom Ends
- The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires
- Shopping for the Right-Sized Country
- Three Primary Factors in Gaining Acceptance as an Expat
- Taking Your Gold for “The Greater Good”
- Collectivism: A Self-Renewing Concept
- Will Gold Crash with the Dow… or Soar?
- The Mexican Libertad: The Currency Solution?
- The Economic Blacklist
- Shopping for a Country
- Occupation Forces
- Not Worth a Continental
- The Quest for Alice’s Rabbit Hole
- The Uniqueness of the Cayman Islands
- Robbing Peter
- Watch Out for that Banana Peel
- Checkers Versus Chess
- Bring In the Lawn Chairs; Close Up the Shutters
- I Owe My Soul
- The Successor to Keynes
- Understanding Hyperinflation
- Why a Police State?
- The Social Tipping Point
- The Future of Countries
- The Next Best Thing
- A Series of Hurdles, Followed by a Cliff
- War Is a Certainty
- Fear of Going Abroad, Part 3—The Locals
- Fear of Going Abroad, Part 2—Personal Ties
- Fear of Going Abroad, Part 1—Lack of Funds
- Fear of Going Abroad, Part 1—Lack of Funds
- Going Down with the Ship
- Privacy Versus Secrecy
- Shutting Off the Money Tap
- Will the Sun Rise in the Morning, or Will it Set in the Evening?
- Watch the Movie Before it is Filmed
- Cue the Black Swan
- Get Ready for Confiscation
- It’s Not “If;” It’s “When”
- It’s Not “If;” It’s “When”
- Seeking a Bolthole Community
- A Glimpse into the Coming Collapse
- The Nuclear Double-Standard
- Are You Already in Jail?
- Ignoring the Obvious
- The Chinese Dollar
- Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue
- The Rise of the Sheeple
- Might India Confiscate the Gold of the Temples?
- Governmental Travel Controls
- Bitcoin: As Good as Gold?
- All That’s Needed Now is a Lusitania
- All That’s Needed Now is a Lusitania
- The Difficulty in Obtaining Accurate Information
- “When Will They Learn?”
- Who Can Best Advise You?
- Is the Gold Market Manipulated?
- When Price Controls Reach Your Dining Table
- Will the Federal Reserve Taper Off on QE?
- Solving the Detroit Crisis
- The Gold Roller Coaster
- Confiscation by the Installment Plan
- What Currency Controls Mean for You
- Last Chance to Exit Fiat Currency
- Inflation: Robbing You Since the 10th Century
- How an Online Business Can Help You Internationalize
- A Real Life Thelma and Louise: the US and the EU
- Cuba’s Past Could Be Your Future
- Cuba’s Past Could Be Your Future
- Democracy or Ineptocracy? Protect Yourself Before It’s Too Late
- Democracy or Ineptocracy? Protect Yourself Before It’s Too Late
- A Blueprint for Internationalizing Yourself
- Is it Safe to Move Wealth Offshore?
- If Cyprus is the Bellwether, then Canada is the Red Flag
- “Even Worse Than I Think”
- “Even Worse Than I Think”
- Cyprus, The First Domino?
- Internationalization and the Libertarian Principle
- The Drivers of Socialism – An Interview with Jeff Thomas
- Jeff Thomas Responds: Questions on Gold Ownership
- The Shearing of the Sheeple
- The Pig With The Most Lipstick
- The UK – In Or Out Of The EU?
- There’s A Bomb Under The Table
- There’s A Bomb Under The Table
- The Disappearing Gold
- Common Sense Vs. Paul Krugman and Space Aliens
- Paying Your Fair Share
- Ben Bernanke – Revisiting The Helicopter Speech
- 1929 Revisited
- Preview of Coming Attractions
- The Lifespan of a Country
- Making Sure War Occurs
- Old Bottles
- Equality – The Great Socialist Ideal
- Election Time
- Looking Toward A Post-Crash World
- “The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined.”
- Manipulation of the Gold Price
- The Tide of Power
- Revisiting the Future
- The Recovery
- 11 Stages of the Crash
- Weimar Greece
- Last Exit Coming Up
- What Type of “Flation” is Coming?
- What Type of “Flation” is Coming?
- When Will The Gold Mania Begin?
- Understanding the Federal Reserve
- There Was Shrinkage
- Living in Hope
- “You Cannot Herd Cats”
- “You Cannot Herd Cats”
- The Economic Rodeo
- War
- All This Fuss About A Fiat Dollar
- The Problem With Political Parties
- Beating the Piñata
- The Burning Barn
- Germany Invades Poland
- I Want a Pony for Christmas!
- HYPERINFLATION – “I’ll wait and see how it goes before I make my move”
- HYPERINFLATION – “I’ll wait and see how it goes before I make my move”
- DUMB-OCRACY
- Framers of the American Constitution
- By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
- How to Avoid Diversification Disappointment
- Keeping the EU Gold in the US
- Hoping for a Sane and Sensible Mania
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Political Party Illusion
- When They Can’t Afford Walmart
- Can the Financial Crash in the US be Avoided?
- The Danger of Paper Gold
- Question Everything
- Don’t Feed the Bears
- Don’t Feed the Bears
- Readers Respond
- Can We Expect the European Union to End Soon?
- The American Berlin Wall in Cuba
- Will America Bounce Back?
- Arrested Development
- Rewriting History – It’s Nothing New
- Rewriting History – It’s Nothing New
- What Will Trigger the Crash?
- Making Sense Out of the Great Unraveling
- Will There Be Hyperinflation?
- Why Do They Stay?
- Seeking Inspiration in Going Forward
- Bolthole On A Budget
- Growing Up With The Cayman Islands
- “Closed for Remodeling”
- “Closed for Remodeling”
- The Ugly American
- Ten Years of Gold
- Holding Pattern
- Just Which American Constitution Are You Referring To?
- Food Crisis – The Greatest Threat to Social Stability
- The British and American Constitutions
- Predictions & The Art of Pulling (Dead) Rabbits From a Hat
- Predictions & The Art of Pulling (Dead) Rabbits From a Hat
- “Why do I need to Internationalise? I like it where I am.”
- “Why do I need to Internationalise? I like it where I am.”
- “The Barbarians”
- “The Barbarians”
- Escaping the American “Entitlement” Attitude…
- Escaping the American “Entitlement” Attitude…
- The Constitution – The Past and Present
- Congressmen Discuss Gold Confiscation
- How Much More Reason Do You Need?
- Who’s in Charge?
- Who’s in Charge?
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