Jeff Thomas
Jeff Thomas is British and resides in the Caribbean. The son of an economist and historian, he learned early to be distrustful of governments as a general principle. Although he spent his career creating and developing businesses, for eight years, he penned a weekly newspaper column on the theme of limiting government.
He began his study of economics around 1990, learning initially from Sir John Templeton, then Harry Schulz and Doug Casey and later others of an Austrian persuasion.
- 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
- “Living” Wherever You Go
- The US vs. China: A Study in Opposites
- The US and China: A Difference in Approaches
- Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
- The All-Important Doorman
- “It’s a Sorry Rabbit That Has Only One Hole”
- The Ebb and Flow of the Tides of Nations
- “Capitalism Has Failed”
- 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 Triumph of Collectivism
- Is This What You Call Being Prepared?
- The Black Market: The Embryonic Free Market
- The Unwelcome Mat
- Future Headlines
- Are They Really Out to Get Me?
- Gold as the Monetary Sun
- The End Is Nigh
- The Sandcastle
- Three Faces of Bitcoin
- Size Matters
- Capitalism—A New Idea
- The American Ideal
- Say Goodbye to Your Safe Deposit Box
- The Madhouse
- The Race Against Time
- The Dynamics of a Riot
- Killing the Goose
- The Second Half of the Pincer
- Where’s Your Loyalty?
- Dear Abby
- An Empire Self-Destructs
- 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?
- Where Do You Go in a Hurricane?
- 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
- Food Crisis—The Greatest Threat to Social Stability
- The Sinking of the Lord Clive
- Fight of the Century
- Duesenberg in a Barn
- When the Money Supply Dries Up
- 20/20
- “We Will Bury You”
- Under New Management
- Three Strikes—You’re Out!
- Get an Education
- 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?
- Viva la Revolución?
- The Elimination of Reason
- The Sedition Act: The Bad Penny Returns
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- Going the Way of the Denarius
- Why Socialism is Here to Stay
- Sorry, You Can’t Have Your Gold
- Betting on Crazylegs in the Final Race
- Seeking Galt’s Gulch
- The Darwin Awards for Nations
- Picking Up the UK Tab
- Looking Forward
- Rebirth of a Nation
- Musical Chairs
- The Blind Leading the Clueless
- 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 Necessity of Human Action
- The First Casualty Is Truth
- There Might Be Dragons (the Fear of Internationalization)
- Nine Meals from Anarchy
- The Nature of a Career Politician
- Failure of the War on Cash
- Hiding from Opportunity
- Chang and Eng / The US and Canada
- To Humbly Submit
- The Danger of Media Blackout
- The Two-Party Illusion
- Rothschild: USA Is the New Switzerland
- The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation
- The Future of Direct Taxation
- Surely This Problem Won’t Affect Me
- The End of Tax Havens?
- The American Revolution—The Sequel
- The International War on Cash
- Are Governments Running Out of Candy?
- 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
- The Most Popular Reasons for Going Down with the Ship
- 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
- From Crisis To Confiscation—Where Do I Store My Wealth?
- Escaping Serfdom
- When a Train Wreck Is No Accident
- The Disappearing Retirement Fund
- 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 End of the Safe Deposit Box for Wealth Storage
- Bus Driver Economics
- Who’s Got the Gold?
- Tax Havens and the Greedy Rich
- Redefining “Country”
- The Crowning Glory of Keynesianism
- Minimising Government’s Dominance over Your Life
- Prove You’re Not a Terrorist
- The Future of Passports
- There Goes the Neighbourhood
- What Will Happen to You When the Dollar Collapses?
- Capital Punishment
- The Next Empire
- Which New World Order Are We Talking About?
- 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
- Diocletian for President
- The Day Freedom Ends
- The Writing on the Wall
- The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires
- The First Libertarian?
- Shopping for the Right-Sized Country
- Rulers Seek to Rule
- 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
- Babson’s Warning
- How Empires End
- Shopping for a Country
- Occupation Forces
- Hidden in Plain View
- Not Worth a Continental
- The Quest for Alice’s Rabbit Hole
- The Uniqueness of the Cayman Islands
- Robbing Peter
- The Retention of Wealth
- 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
- When in Rome
- The Future of Countries
- The Next Best Thing
- Question Everything
- A Series of Hurdles, Followed by a Cliff
- War Is a Certainty
- It Will Happen Suddenly
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- Boiling the Frog
- Might India Confiscate the Gold of the Temples?
- Governmental Travel Controls
- Bitcoin: As Good as Gold?
- 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
- Expatriate to Protect Your Retirement from Inflation
- Confiscation by the Installment Plan
- What Currency Controls Mean for You
- Last Chance to Exit Fiat Currency
- Inflation: Robbing You Since the 10th Century
- Don’t Dismiss the Possibility of Gold Confiscation
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- The Disappearing Gold
- Seeking a Spirit Of Benevolence
- 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
- The Need for Information Filtration
- Revisiting the Future
- The Recovery
- 11 Stages of the Crash
- Weimar Greece
- Last Exit Coming Up
- 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”
- An End to Progress
- 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”
- 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
- 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
- Can You Afford To Eat?
- 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”
- 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
- “Why do I need to Internationalise? I like it where I am.”
- “The Barbarians”
- Escaping the American “Entitlement” Attitude…
- The Constitution – The Past and Present
- Congressmen Discuss Gold Confiscation
- How Much More Reason Do You Need?
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt
- Who’s in Charge?
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