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Housing Demand Is Built on Monetary Policy
October 17, 2012
So builders are busy again in the US. The Fed has been flooding the market with cheap money so we are not surprised. But there are ramifications. It certainly is a dominant social theme, however. The idea is that the economy went through a rough patch but that ...
Ms. Clinton Goes to War?
October 17, 2012
It seems like Hillary Clinton's very own terrorist strike force is about to become a reality. We first wrote about this back in May. You can see the article here: "As Commandos Raid Tampa US State Department Demands Power to Declare War." Ms. Clinton was attend ...
Inflation: Washington is Blind to Main Street's Biggest Concern
October 17, 2012
Journalists, politicians and economists all seem to agree that the biggest economic issue currently worrying voters is unemployment. It follows then that most believe that the deciding factor in the presidential race will be the ability of each candidate to con ...
Love and Visibility
October 17, 2012
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 little brighter, like the lights had been turned up a notch." What is it that makes l ...
Illegal Downloaders Are Best Customers, Too
October 16, 2012
We've written about copyright and its criminalization numerous times and this article on Geekosystems and the one it is based on at The American Assembly are no surprise: Illegal downloaders are apt to be large record purchasers. This simply makes sense. Those ...
Toll of War Deformities Is Heavy Price to Pay in Iraq
October 16, 2012
People in the West would be shocked to know that their taxes had funded the wholesale poisoning of parts of the Middle East and Afghanistan but increasingly, that's how it seems. We've written about it before numerous times. The culprit is depleted uranium and ...
Keeping Up Statistical Appearances
October 16, 2012
Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders ...
Measurable Improvements
October 16, 2012
What exactly went wrong in Germany? Thomas Jefferson had been dead for 150 years when Adolf Hitler came to power. But he would have recognized the broad outlines of the problem. Jefferson: "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results fro ...
Don't Vote for Evil
October 16, 2012
Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the world. I am quoting Chavez from memory, not verbatim. "Yesterday standing at this same podium was Satan himself, speaking as if he ...
Compelling Election or Last Gasp of US Representative Democracy?
October 15, 2012
Reuters has posted an editorial from Frederick Kempe maintaining the importance of the upcoming US presidential elections. We've noticed more and more discussion of the importance of this presidential election. It is seemingly being positioned in the mainstream ...
Old Flu Jab Debunking Garners New Coverage
October 15, 2012
Gaia Health is reporting on a 2010 study published in the Cochrane Collaboration Library that concluded the so-called influenza vaccine is ineffective and that studies regarding flu vaccines generally are flawed. The study cited harm from such vaccines that wen ...
The Economic Case for Right-to-Work
October 15, 2012
The current economic crisis that has gripped the United States over the last several years has been especially negative in its affects on the levels and opportunities for employment in various parts of the country. Michigan has been one of the hardest hit state ...
American Exceptionalism Revisited
October 15, 2012
A fairly prominent perception across the globe is that America has had certain exceptional features. While these are mixed in with various traditional ones, they still manage – or have managed – to make the country unusual in human history. The American Rev ...
Jim Rogers on Politics, Money Metals and How to Deal With an Endless Downturn
October 14, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present another exclusive interview with Jim Rogers. Daily Bell: Hello, again. Let's jump right in. Where is gold headed – US$5000 an ounce? Is silver headed toward US$350? Jim Rogers: I'm not smart enough to know something like t ...
Nobel Backlash Is Symptomatic of a Deeper Elite Issue
October 13, 2012
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, which is usually given to a person. There's been a good deal of astonishment over the award as people have a hard time understanding how an entity so sprawling as the EU could receive a prize ordinarily awarded to i ...
New False Flag as French Youth Supposedly Create 'Identity Generation'
October 12, 2012
France has a new war on its hands launched by "The Generation of National Identity." You can see the YouTube video below ... a professional presentation. This is possibly another dominant social theme taking shape. We see this as a kind of trilogy. First came W ...
Do We Need This? … Hestia Project
October 12, 2012
The powers-that-be continue to propagate the idea that only by removing carbon dioxide from the air will mankind survive. The idea is that human based carbon emissions are clogging up the atmosphere and trapping warmth and moisture. Of course, when you look int ...
The IMF Turns Tail on EU Austerity
October 11, 2012
The Telegraph's Jeremy Warner, assistant editor, has written an interesting article about the IMF and its recent actions. We are not so adept at reading certain tea leaves (the IMF's, for instance) as Warner seems to be. But he does make a case – and if corre ...
Too Often Regulators Play the Role of Police, Judge and Executioner: Witness Liberty Silver Corp.
October 11, 2012
To say that regulatory democracy is out of control and doing more damage than good ... well, that may be an understatement. In this editorial I will examine a very disturbing recent situation in which the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once aga ...
Lance Armstrong Investigation: Not Really About Sports at All
October 11, 2012
We've written about the vendetta against Lance Armstrong before, and now the proverbial other shoe has dropped. The news is all over the Internet and presumably Armstrong will soon be stripped of various titles. It will be difficult to decide to whom those titl ...
Government in America!
October 11, 2012
The central achievement of the American Revolution was to demote government to a role of cop on the beat. The monarch stopped being the sovereign; the citizen became sovereign instead. Self-government became an aspiration for all people not just rulers. The ide ...
Madness of Markets
October 10, 2012
Almost everything that appears on Bloomberg supports the idea of market failure. The animating perspective of Western mainstream media is that markets need "supervision." But rarely do we find this meme so bluntly presented as in this article excerpted above. I ...
New Lincoln Movie Is Another Obama Promotion?
October 10, 2012
As we analyze dominant social themes, we find the Lincoln meme to be ubiquitous. The idea, of course, is that transformative change comes from the state itself and those who are elected "leaders." The idea of transformative change is not restricted to "leaders" ...
IMF Solutions Reinforce Problems
October 09, 2012
The IMF is getting a good deal of play with a worried world forecast. The concern was stated in the IMF's "World Economic Report." Here's a quote: "A key issue is whether the global economy is just hitting another bout of turbulence in what was always expected ...
'Argo' – Another Iranian Fantasy?
October 09, 2012
A new movie has been launched called "Argo" that purports to tell the story of a CIA-inspired rescue of some Canadians in Iran right after the revolution. It is a true story but the larger context is questionable. The whole war on terror, as many in the alterna ...
Riding Into the Sunset or a Brick Wall?
October 09, 2012
A month ago, I presented the case for why Fed Chairman Bernanke would have strong motivation to launch another round of quantitative easing (QE) before the election. In short, it would save him his job. Now, I didn't predict with certainty that he would do so - ...
Government Dependency Will End in Chaos
October 09, 2012
The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It's not that nearly half of Americans are dependent on government; it's actually more than half. If one ...
Green Shoots Withering?
October 08, 2012
The Atlantic in its 21st century incarnation is a more predictably elitist publication than ever. These days, like the New Yorker, its editors have expanded its brief to include articles on various economic and military-related issues. But we don't find much th ...
NATO Preps Civil War in Afghanistan
October 08, 2012
According to this UK Telegraph columnist, India, Iran and Russia should be approached about supporting Kabul in its attempts to maintain a centralized government in Afghanistan. This is nothing more than a recipe for a civil war, however, and is line with other ...
Atlas Shrugged (the movie) Part II
October 08, 2012
This could have been a movie review but I am not quite qualified to write one given that we are talking here about a craft, namely, movie making, with which I am not sufficiently familiar. What I am writing, instead, is a simple thank you note to the producer, ...
Alexander McCobin on Ron Paul, Objectivism and Co-founding Students For Liberty
October 07, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Alexander McCobin. Here's a brief snippet. Daily Bell: There is a new generation of students growing up in the US. Are they more pro-liberty? Alexander McCobin: Absolutely. I think we're seeing ...
Obama Spin Reveals Elite Roots
October 06, 2012
We track power elite dominant social themes large and small. As part of this effort, we've uncovered what we believe to be patterns of "directed history" leading toward ever-bigger government at both national and international levels. Elites love government bec ...
Upcoming Food Scarcity – Promotion or Reality?
October 05, 2012
The volatile global climate? It's enough to make someone believe in weather control via HAARP! That's how elite scarcity memes work, after all. Say the power elite wants to create a perception of energy scarcity ... We've written about this in the past. Liberta ...
'Another One Bites the Dust'
October 05, 2012
This is a sad article posted at the Huffington Post but we have given this article a foolish and insensitive title to show how easy it is to get inured to this kind of police brutality. There is no other description for it but "brutality." Over and over – al ...
Unlimited Democracy
October 05, 2012
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 replaced monarchies, the urgency to limit their scope of power waned even though there a ...
'Economies Are Not Watches and Money Flows Are Not Predictable'
October 04, 2012
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is back with another try at organizing the world according to "monetarism." Long ago, we recall reading that this adept mainstream journo did NOT consider himself a monetarist, or Keynesian, or anything else mainstream but in this articl ...
Mitt Romney Wins Debate, But Not Larger Cultural War
October 04, 2012
We're trying not to become vested in these presidential debates emotionally or otherwise but it is easy to be intrigued because Obama has been such a terrible president. Watching Romney bounce up and down on top of Obama (figuratively, anyway) is like watching ...
Don't Cry For Us, Mitt Romney
October 04, 2012
Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment desperately need a few million votes in order to beat Obama in the 2012 General Election. The GOP could have had most of the Ron Paul voter support if Romney had named either Ron Paul or Rand Paul as his VP running mate. Ha ...
How Does FATCA Impact You?
October 04, 2012
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law." ~ Winston Churchill Until a few weeks ago, I was living under the assumption that by now everyone knew about the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and had a broad understanding ...
Subprime Prosecutions Miss the Point
October 03, 2012
Dominant Social Theme: Finally, someone is bringing these big banks to justice. Free-Market Analysis: The accusations of criminality against Wall Street mount. Occupy Wall Street plans demos and in the UK, the LIBOR "scandal" proceeds with regular declarations ...
The Unsurprising Corruption of the VA
October 03, 2012
But it will! The US government is the largest or at least most powerful patronage machine in the world. And nothing happens in politics, generally, that does not benefit one or more people at the expense of others. People act out of self-interest. In the PRIVAT ...
The Fed Plays All Its Cards
October 03, 2012
There never really could be much doubt that the current experiment in competitive global currency debasement would end in anything less than a total war. There was always a chance that one or more of the principal players would snap out of it, change course and ...
Central Bank Narrative Grinds On via AP
October 02, 2012
We cover elite promotions that support expansive government, and no single such meme is more important than the necessity for central banking. It is central banking that evidently and obviously funds the push toward world government. The same never-mentioned el ...
Rulers Should Unite?
October 02, 2012
Another article on the death of democracy. We just mentioned this might be an emergent elite meme in a recent article entitled "Death of Democracy Propagated on Purpose?" The article we commented on then in the UK Telegraph was entitled, "Another chapter in the ...
Gold is Good Money
October 02, 2012
Last year the Chairman of the Federal Reserve told me that gold is not money, a position which central banks, governments, and mainstream economists have claimed is the consensus for decades. But lately there have been some high-profile defections from that con ...
How the Government's Lies Become Truth
October 02, 2012
In my last column, "A Culture of Delusion," I wrote that "Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision." This column will use two top news stories, Iranian nukes and Julian Assange, to illustrate how lies b ...
Controlled Demolition of Europe Continues
October 01, 2012
It is really sad to watch what's going on in Europe. One can almost imagine reading the history books about this period and getting a completely different picture of what is going on than the reality that should be evident to anyone who has lived through this t ...
Vatican Restorations Scrub Nuance From Narrative
October 01, 2012
Why would the Vatican consciously ruin the paintings under its care? Our answer to this is a cynical one that has to do with the Vatican's apparent complicity in what is evidently and obviously a one-world government. Part of the Vatican power base is seemingly ...
Remembering 100 Years of Conquered Rule
October 01, 2012
"A people should know when they are conquered." Maximus responds, "Would you, would I?" – From the movie, "Gladiator" One hundred years ago the American republic was overthrown and captured by financial elites and money power during the Taft and Wilson admini ...
'Asking' Versus Forcing Folks to Pay a Little More
October 01, 2012
President Obama raised the issue of why anyone would object to asking the very rich "to give some more." As he put the matter, "What is wrong with 'asking' those who make more to pay a little more?" As it has been pointed out by all too few people, of course, w ...
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