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Doug Casey On The End Of Honest Markets Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Markets are supposed to reflect economic reality. But when central banks suppress interest rates, governments debase currencies, and major powers manipulate oil prices for political purposes, can any market still be considered honest? Doug Casey: Almost all markets are distorted in some way by government intervention. Interest rates are the price of money itself. They’re the blood of an economy; when they’re manipulated, it amounts to blood poisoning. Currencies have become nothing more than floating abstractions. They move up and down by government fiat. The...

'Going Dark': The High-Tech Tricks Behind Illegal Chinese Fishing In The Pacific Authored by AAP via The Epoch Times, The interception of a Chinese vessel accused of illegal fishing highlights the technical lengths many use to remain undetected across millions of square kilometres of open ocean. Tuvalu Police operating on a Sea Shepherd patrol boat boarded and arrested a Chinese longliner, the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138, on July 9 for allegedly illegally operating within the small South Pacific nation's waters. In a supplied image, fish found on board Chinese longlining vessel, the...