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	05/12/13 - Gerald Celente on the New Renaissance and Big Non-State Trends Changing the World The Daily Bell is pleased to publish this exclusive interview with Gerald Celente. Introduction: Forecasting trends since 1980, Mr. Gerald Celente is publisher of the Trends ...

	05/02/13 - Solari Story: The Power of Local This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Power of Local." Here's a bit of the transcript: "I always say that my neighborhood or my county is the ...

	04/24/13 - If You Are Wealthy, You Are Just Lucky How Did the World's Rich Get That Way? Luck ...Why are some people so rich and others so poor? Is it from good choices or good luck? Hard work, smarts, and ability—or ...

	04/11/13 - Solari Stories: A State of Amusement This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "A State of Amusement." Here's a bit of the transcript: We're in a situation where we've been operating for 500 ...

	04/01/13 - Is It the Baby Boomers' Fault? Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers ... Retirees and near-retirees are leaving behind a devastated economy for their children ... but are we doing ...

	03/29/13 - Does a Country Make Its People Great? Can India become a great power? ... India's lack of a strategic culture hobbles its ambition to be a force in the world ... Nobody doubts that China has joined the ranks of the ...

	03/25/13 - Financial Education – First of All Counterparties: The broken brokerage industry ... Where the hell should you put your money these days? If you're like most Americans, you probably haven't saved enough for ...

	03/21/13 - Solari Story: What is Transparency? This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "What is Transparency?" Here's a bit of the transcript: "To me, transparent is when I can understand it so to me, ...

	03/16/13 - The Art of Being Free - 'Here, there is no state' Wendy McElroy, an individualist feminist, talked to Book TV about her book of essays. The interview was recorded at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, where FreedomFest was ...

	03/07/13 - Are Inclusive Nations Successful Ones? Bill Gates Writes a Book Review ... Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Book Review) ... Review by Bill Gates .... The book goes back in history to talk about economic growth during ...

	02/22/13 - The Pause Button When you're in a situation and you feel like reacting with anger, or fear, or hurt feelings – anything that feels like it's an automatic, purely emotional response ...

	02/17/13 - Edward Karr on Private Placements, Accredited Investing and New Newsletter and Book Projects The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Edward Karr. Introduction: Edward Karr is an investor, asset manager, investment banker and ...

	02/13/13 - Practice Works One of the principles of living a happy life is that it takes willpower, it takes discipline and it takes practice in order to live well. This may seem strange if your vision ...

	02/12/13 - Revitalization of the State Militias: Review of Edwin Vieira's 'The Sword and Sovereignty' On April 19, 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord on the outskirts of Boston ignited the conflict that led to the most momentous political event of man's history – ...

	01/30/13 - What is the Reputation You'd Like to Earn With Yourself? When you get to know people, you are, in part, building a reputation with each other. "What kind of person is he?" "How does she handle a difficult situation?" "What kind of ...

	01/25/13 - Virtue's Reflection The reflection that you provide for others has a greater impact than you might know. When a person looks inward, exploring his or her thoughts, feelings, motivations, or ...

	01/19/13 - Fed Officials Recognized Upcoming 2007 Crisis But Weren't Worried Federal Reserve officials in August 2007 saw the beginnings of the crisis in subprime mortgages and concluded that the U.S. economy would be able to withstand it, even as some ...

	01/15/13 - Axiom 2: Promote Human Action and Free-Market Thinking How To Restore the West: Axiom 2 "Human action is purposeful behavior." – Ludwig von Mises Contrary to politically correct elite propaganda and indoctrination, only a ...

	01/06/13 - Unhappy at Work ... What Would Bob the Builder Do? Finding meaning at your workplace ... Ever question why you work, or feel like you only work for a salary? Best-selling author Daniel Pink has solutions for employees (and ...

	01/04/13 - Culture, Integrity and Questioning Authority If you want to have your strongest and most positive impact on your culture, the way to do it is to live with integrity – meaning that you know your principles and you ...

	12/25/12 - Christmas: The Little Known Secret to Creating a Free Society The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Pastor Matthew Barnett of The Dream Center. Introduction: A society of free people can voluntarily provide ...

	12/19/12 - Internalized Oppression Over the summer, my family and I went for a walk in the nearby woods. There is a shallow creek winding its way through a beautiful redwood forest and we thought it would be fun ...

	12/13/12 - Ethics and Gouging During most emergencies there are those who could certainly use quite a bit of help and it is on such occasions that complaints about gouging surface most vociferously. The ...

	12/07/12 - EU's Directed History Grinds On EU summit to consider 'reform contracts' for all euro states ... Draft ideas ahead of next week's EU leaders summit foresee reform contracts for all euro states, political ...

	12/05/12 - Envy and the Fixed Trait Mindset Envy is passive greed. It is also the result of a particular way of thinking of yourself. Greed, as the word is commonly used, refers to an "excessive or rapacious desire, ...

	11/30/12 - Don't Let Your Dreams Be a Clothes Tree Have you ever tried to start an exercise program on your own? The world is full of home exercise equipment displayed as modern art forms like Duchamp's famous and ridiculous ...

	11/23/12 - Rat Brain Some years back, some scientists were experimenting with rats and electrodes. They thought they were going to administer a shock to a particular rat and watch how it behaved in ...

	11/17/12 - Secession's Violent Subtext "Post-election secession talk misses the point," writes the Nashua Telegraph in a guest editorial from The Keene Sentinel . It pulls together a lot of secessionist strands from ...

	11/13/12 - Secession Petitions: Good PR But Bad Politics And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord: "Let my people go ... " – Exodus 8:1 Tens of thousands of Americans are now ...

	11/10/12 - Obama's Hammer and the Progress of The Daily Bell The New York Times is out with a political article, "Question for the Victor: How Far Do You Push?" The Times points out that President Obama has obtained a second chance to ...

	11/09/12 - Yeah, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death "We all live in the South Bronx because that neighborhood is the unavoidable proof that American civilization can stop. It can stop literally right around the corner, and if it ...

	11/08/12 - Republicans Rage as the Great Burning Arrives Republicans descend into civil war as Tea Party movement vows to drive party further to the right ... The Republican Party was last night descending into a civil war over ...

	11/07/12 - Training for What You Want Last week I asked you to define three things: Something you want to stop doing, something you want to start doing – or do more of and a longer-term goal that you want to ...

	11/02/12 - What Do You Want? Sometimes we can have a sense that things aren't working well or we'd like something to be different in our lives, and we can try to take steps to change. But without an idea ...

	10/27/12 - Sit Silently ... as Bombs Burst in Air The primary problem here is one of a lack of separation between the tail on the ass and the ass itself. In this case, the ass, the US, swaggers along in all its grandeur, ...

	10/20/12 - British 'End of Life' Panels Are Bad News for Everyone The Daily Mail received a lot of attention this week for an article entitled, "3,000 doctors putting patients on 'death lists' that single them out to be allowed to die." Now, ...

	10/17/12 - Love and Visibility Years ago, somebody asked Nathaniel Branden how you know when you love somebody. His answer was something to the effect that, "When they enter a room, for you, the room gets a ...

	10/05/12 - Unlimited Democracy The Magna Carta was an early attempt to rein in government, reduce the scope of monarchical rule. Constitutional monarchy was the result in many countries. When democracies ...

	09/28/12 - A Culture of Delusion A writer's greatest disappointments are readers who have knee-jerk responses. Not all readers, of course. Some readers are thoughtful and supportive. Others express thanks for ...

	09/27/12 - Familiarity and Renewal When life is unusually stressful or when you've been through something that has taken a lot out of you – like surgery, a concussion or another trauma of some kind – ...

	09/24/12 - Rest of World Begins to Catch Up to Daily Bell? Douglas Carswell: Bad news for the big state ... The West's political and social model is in crisis - but emerging internet technology will make it possible to survive without ...

	09/21/12 - What Should Freedom Lovers Do? How can one combine professional life with the advancement of liberty? Of course it is presumptuous to offer a definitive answer since all jobs and careers in the market ...

	09/17/12 - The Era of Procrustes It used to be considered an ugly trait to be envious. Envy is when one holds that it would be best if everyone were equally badly off. If you are better off than I am, envy ...

	09/15/12 - Rising Middle East Violence a Precursor for US-Based Internal Combustion Recent violence, or blowback if you will, throughout the Middle East is not surprising. Many in the mainstream media are attempting to portray the violent attacks, in ...

	09/05/12 - Your Brain Needs Your Heart Needs Your Mind There has been a lot of research that connects the healthy function of your heart with the healthy functioning of your brain. Today I want to talk about how you can use that ...

	08/28/12 - Ron Paul and the Future One of the most thrilling memories of the 2012 campaign was the sight of those huge crowds who came out to see Ron. His competitors, meanwhile, couldn't fill half a Starbucks. ...

	08/22/12 - Happiness and Success in Business Much as we are often motivated by what we think will bring us happiness, happiness is still seen as something of a trivial side issue; not a bottom line kind of thing at all. ...

	08/17/12 - Better Relationships, Better Health and Real Honesty Americans lie an average of 11 times per week. This can take a toll on one's relationships, physical health and mental health. A study by Anita Kelly and Lijuan Wang of the ...

	08/13/12 - The Olympics and Politics Strictly speaking, sports and politics should be separate, just as should be religion and politics. Of course, folks with strong religious convictions will often be guided by ...

	08/10/12 - Mastering Emotions Sometimes what you feel is what makes life worth living: love, joy, ecstasy, delight, curiosity... Your emotions bring you these experiences and fill you with the meaning and ...

	08/08/12 - Decision Points Psychology has always had an air of mystery to it. From its root word psyche , meaning soul, and drawn from the Greek myth of psyche and cupid, to Anton Mesmer's introduction ...

	07/25/12 - Change Your Brain with Your Mind: Overcome Obsessions and Compulsions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a painful, debilitating and embarrassing psychological condition. Howard Hughes is a famous sufferer of OCD, and because he had the means ...

	07/20/12 - Who is Responsible for What You Do? "He didn't invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?" "Who?" "Rearden. He didn't invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn't have invented his Metal but ...

	07/20/12 - Warren's Non Sequitur Revisited This column addresses President Obama's fallacious reasoning about property rights. I wrote it a few months ago (updated here) when Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts candidate ...

	07/20/12 - S&P Revises Pennsylvania's Outlook to Negative As part of a growing trend, Compton, California is on the verge of bankruptcy. When it files (and it will eventually), it will become California's fourth city to do so. The ...

	07/19/12 - A Reliable Contrary Indicator for Gold "A government big enough to give you everything you need is a government strong enough to take everything you have." ~ Thomas Jefferson Today, I urge you to read the ...

	07/18/12 - Stress and Happiness The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines stress as: "1) A force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another ...

	07/10/12 - The Final Executive Order: Death of the Republic T his is a fictional story showing how the last vestiges of the republic, your personal wealth and gold could disappear in 24 hours. "The illusion of freedom will continue as ...

	07/07/12 - Who is on the Wrong Side of History? Because of the Internet's success, numerous attempts have been made to weaken it and make it less of a problem for the power elite that it is inconveniencing and exposing. We ...

	07/06/12 - Build a Growth Mindset When you think of what you do in your life, how do you think of yourself? If you think thoughts such as, "I'm intelligent," or "I'm talented," or "I'm a failure," you're ...

	07/03/12 - Introducing The Internet Reformation Society (IRS) For Global Monetary and Political Reform "Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it." – Ludwig von Mises The Internet Reformation is Here Anthony ...

	06/30/12 - Memento Mori ... Colonial American art saw a large number of memento mori images due to Puritan influence. The Puritan community in 17th-century North America looked down upon art, because they ...

	06/27/12 - No Risk, No Fun, No Freedom Those of us over about age 30 can remember the days before America was (at least less of) a Nanny State. Some friends of ours just got back from a mission trip to Tijuana, ...

	06/22/12 - Elite Orgasms in Rome: The Phoniness of Modern Leadership Euro's big four seek way out of crisis in Rome ... The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain will try to find common ground in Rome on Friday to restore confidence in the ...

	06/20/12 - A Market Alternative to Psychotherapy Psychotherapy, done well, can be a great help to people who need it. For a wide range of psychological symptoms and troubles, or for dealing with a certain range of ...

	06/13/12 - Worry Less Have you spent more time worrying over the last few years? I know I have. There is plenty to worry about, what with fascism growing, the economy shrinking, the world becoming ...

	06/12/12 - Rand Paul's Misguided Endorsement Shows Us Where Freedom Begins Libertarians say Rand Paul betrayed his father's principles after endorsing Romney ... When Dr. Rand Paul ran for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, many of his fund-raising appeals were ...

	06/11/12 - Kokesh on Rand Paul's Apostasy – and Why He Ought to Emphasize Money Power Dominant Social Theme: Ron must renounce Rand. Free-Market Analysis: Adam Kokesh is really upset with Rand Paul, and probably Ron Paul, too. In this interesting video, Kokesh ...

	06/06/12 - Life Lived in the Active Voice If you are a writer and you want to write boring passages that are meaningless to your readers, the best way to go about this is to write in the passive voice: sentences with ...

	05/30/12 - Psychiatry's Hammer You know the adage: When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Psychiatry has one big hammer, psychiatric medications, with which to address a nail: ...

	05/25/12 - Adversity and Excellence Nobody wants adversity. It is, after all, adverse – antagonistic to what you want. But adversity is also often what makes us who we are, in the best sense. My first year ...

	05/23/12 - Choosing the Golden Rule There are several qualities that define our humanity. Today I want to talk about two of them: our capacity for conscious empathy and our ability to consciously redirect our ...

	05/21/12 - Revisiting the Responsibility of Business Managers People buy stocks, shares in a firm, mainly so as to delegate to the officers the job of securing for them economic prosperity. What else did all the folks who purchased the ...

	05/16/12 - Mastering Happiness is Mastering Life I study, speak about and write about happiness. I do this all the time. It's my life's work. I coach people to help them to live a happier life and I teach groups of people how ...

	05/09/12 - Directed History of Coming Depression Grinds On Never Mind Europe. Worry About India ...The economic slowdown in India is one of the world's biggest economic stories, but it is commanding only a modicum of attention in the ...

	05/09/12 - Resilience and Success A happy, successful life does more than make you feel good. It also serves to strengthen you, and to open your mind to options and opportunities that you would otherwise not ...

	05/04/12 - The Physical Case for Happiness We are all familiar with the basic guidelines for good health: exercise, eat right − more fruits and veggies, less red meat, more fish, fewer calories, more ...

	04/21/12 - Zimmerman's Apology? The shooter of Trayvon Martin is now said by many to have apologized. All over the media this is being reported, even on Fox TV news, even though he did nothing of the sort. To ...

	04/19/12 - Paradoxes About Intruding on "Nature" Whether this is deliberate I don't know, but many movies made for children these days have strong moralistic messages that say: "We human beings are the scourge of the ...

	04/16/12 - On Misreading Sunstein A while back The New York Times Magazine ran what amounts to a puff piece about Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein, President Obama's long-time friend, former colleague and ...

	04/09/12 - Lincoln Must Have Worked for Money Power New Tim Burton film features Abraham Lincoln, vampires ... "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to premiere in June 2012 ... While sitting in the theater waiting for "The Hunger ...

	03/29/12 - Assange and Anonymous As Elite Helpers? Anonymous Supposedly Plans to "Kill" the Internet on March 31 ... Planned DDOS campaign against DNS is meant to highlight piracy legislation issues. Al Gore may have finally ...

	03/22/12 - Prudence versus Greed Most people mean by greed an "excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions." As to prudence, it is the quality of being cautious with regard to practical ...

	03/16/12 - The World Is Running Out of Water ... Again Climate, food pressures require rethink on water: U.N. ...The world's water supply is being strained by climate change and the growing food, energy and sanitary needs of a ...

	03/09/12 - Cost-Benefit Analysis – Another Questionable Meme U.S. Regulators 'Paralyzed' by Cost-Benefit Suits, Chilton Says ... Wall Street banks are using the threat of lawsuits to prevent regulators from writing rules mandated by the ...

	03/07/12 - Culture and Envy We have a genuine problem. Envy, fear of envy and deflecting envy may be the most dangerous and difficult aspects of human nature for us to wrestle with as we seek to progress ...

	03/04/12 - Foster Gamble on 'Thrive' the Movie, Its Critics and What Can Be Done to Stop the Conspiracy The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Foster Gamble. Introduction: Foster Gamble is President & Co-Founder of Clear ...

	03/01/12 - Delegitimizing Government Power Al Gore excoriates us on how we need to restrict our wasteful lifestyles and limit our "carbon footprint" while flying around the world in private jets, using orders of ...

	02/15/12 - Willful Happiness "The best way to use your willpower is to stop screwing up!" – Roy Baumeister Willpower, the capacity to regulate your own behavior, is one of the changeable elements of ...

	02/13/12 - The Personal Is the Economic Feminist Carol Hanisch is famous for opposing the Miss America contest in the 1960s. She is also the person who in 1968 coined the phrase "the personal is the political." Her ...

	02/08/12 - Ideas That (We are Told) are Too Urgent for Science It's a familiar and effective marketing technique: You make an offer and then you add, "Hurry. Spaces are limited, so sign up now!" or "These models won't last, so act fast!" ...

	01/21/12 - Accepting Human Nature One of the basic truths of human psychological growth is this: If you want to change something about your life, you must first acknowledge and accept what's true about your ...

	11/02/11 - Where Do Things Come From? We all know where babies come from: The stork, right? Ha ha. That, of course, is a tale told to young children by uncomfortable parents. How ridiculous would it be if millions ...

	09/05/10 - Nathaniel Branden on Mastering the Six Pillars of Esteem and Honoring One's-Self The Daily Bell is pleased to present an exclusive interview with Dr. Nathaniel Branden. Introduction: Dr. Branden (left) is a practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles and also ...

	11/22/09 - Gary Taubes on Cold Fusion, Good Nutrition and What Makes Bad and Good Science The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present an exclusive interview with leading science writer Gary Taubes. Introduction: Mr. Taubes is the author of a number of ...

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