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John Browne

John Browne

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

John Browne is the Senior Economic Consultant for Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. Mr. Brown is a distinguished former member of Britain's Parliament who served on the Treasury Select Committee, as Chairman of the Conservative Small Business Committee, and as a close associate of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Among his many notable assignments, John served as a principal advisor to Mrs. Thatcher's government on issues related to the Soviet Union, and was the first to convince Thatcher of the growing stature of then Agriculture Minister Mikhail Gorbachev. As a partial result of Brown's advocacy, Thatcher famously pronounced that Gorbachev was a man the West "could do business with." A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Britain's version of West Point and retired British army major, John served as a pilot, parachutist, and communications specialist in the elite Grenadiers of the Royal Guard.

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    Published 23 December 2009 | viewed 3,917 times

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    Published 16 December 2009 | viewed 3,228 times

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    Published 08 December 2009 | viewed 2,863 times

    Last week, we witnessed Ben Bernanke's Senate confirmation hearings for a second term as Fed Chairman. The air was thick with hypocrisy, as Senators vied…

  • Mirage in the Desert

    Published 02 December 2009 | viewed 4,221 times

    In recent days, world attention has focused on the potential debt default of Dubai World, the main government-owned corporation in the emirate of Dubai. The…

  • Big Players Get Physical with Gold

    Published 25 November 2009 | viewed 3,182 times

    Over past years, we at Euro Pacific have taken an increasingly jaundiced view of paper currencies and written repeatedly about gold as an alternative. Along…

  • Country at a Crossroads

    Published 18 November 2009 | viewed 3,337 times

    The U.S. economy is in uncertain times. Analysts are split between those seeing recovery and those fearing a second downturn. This confusion is being echoed…

  • A Toxic Cocktail

    Published 11 November 2009 | viewed 3,697 times

    Last week, the Fed extended its emergency economic powers, which include lending to the money center banks at zero interest. A few days later, the…

  • Boasting of Glory

    Published 04 November 2009 | viewed 3,163 times

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  • Inflation by Stealth

    Published 28 October 2009 | viewed 2,717 times

    Over the past two years, the federal government and the Federal Reserve have dispersed trillions of public dollars, run up enormous deficits, and kept interest…

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    Published 21 October 2009 | viewed 3,197 times

    In a small bit of Washington irony, a government panel convened this week under the guise of ensuring 'expressive freedom' on the Internet, while at…

  • U.S. Stock Markets Disconnected from Reality

    Published 14 October 2009 | viewed 4,234 times

    Earlier this year, I predicted that the 2009 rally in U.S. stocks could bring the Dow Jones Index as high as 10,000. It looks like…

  • The Currency Cabal

    Published 07 October 2009 | viewed 4,109 times

    On October 6th, The Independent newspaper of London set off shock-waves around the world with a report that secret meetings were held between the OPEC…

  • A Somber G-20

    Published 30 September 2009 | viewed 2,833 times

    As a part-time member of the press corps, I had the good fortune to attend many of the public sessions at last week's G-20 meeting…

  • Trade Battle Explained

    Published 23 September 2009 | viewed 2,764 times

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    Published 16 September 2009 | viewed 5,111 times

    Readers familiar with my views know that I believe that the current stock market rally is a bullish chapter in an otherwise bearish novel. In…

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    Published 10 September 2009 | viewed 2,965 times

    In the second quarter of 2008, when it became clear that bankrupted financial institutions would be bailed out by the federal government, gold did a…

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    Published 04 September 2009 | viewed 3,380 times

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    Published 31 August 2009 | viewed 2,654 times

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    Published 19 August 2009 | viewed 3,280 times

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