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War On All Fronts
July 17, 2012
The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American ...
Iceland – Mighty Mite or Green Lapdog?
July 16, 2012
Though we've written a number of positive articles about Iceland, we're rapidly getting over the idea of Iceland as a courageous "mighty mite" standing up against Europe's "banksters." Our re-thinking has been caused in part by the posturing of Iceland's presid ...
Debt Protests and Occupy Wall Street – Perfect Together?
July 16, 2012
Why are we not surprised? We've been predicting this for years one way or another. In many of our analyses of public banking, we've indicated that it is a popular-seeming solution – that if the power elite can print endless amounts of money, "the people" shou ...
Constitutional Anomalies
July 16, 2012
As a lay student of the law, it has always struck me odd that in the US system the First Amendment to the Constitution exempts the ministry and journalism from government regulation while it appears to accept the regulation by all levels of government of numero ...
Kerry Lutz on Money, Markets and the Growth of His Financial Survival Network
July 15, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Kerry Lutz. Introduction: Kerry Lutz has been a student of Austrian Economics since 1977. His diverse career has included: running a legal printing company, practicing commercial law and litig ...
Economist Mag Scribes Happy That America is 'Coming Back' – But I Am Not So Sure
July 14, 2012
This is a really irritating article, and that's saying something considering it appears in The Economist magazine, which is regularly obnoxious on a variety of fronts. Of course The Economist is fun to read and is erudite and self-consciously witty. Its owners ...
The Fed Claims It is Responsible for Half of US Stock Market Gains – Are We Grateful?
July 13, 2012
One of the world's major central banking institutions has now admitted that the impact of monetary manipulation has pushed up American equity markets, the biggest in the world, by about 50 percent for at least the past ten years. It will be instructive to see i ...
Surprise! Obama Reveals the Promotional Elements of the Modern Presidency
July 13, 2012
This is a good day for us. We have certain themes we try to analyze as a way of explaining that there is currently a struggle going on between those who want world government and those who want to expose it. The struggle is all-inclusive and people have to unde ...
Mainstream Media Lacks the Vocabulary to Explain What's Going On
July 12, 2012
UK Telegraph associate business editor Jeremy Warner has just written a very good appraisal of Spain's misguided "austerity" policies being put in place by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. And yet, as good as it is, we want to use it for purposes of this article t ...
Milos Forman Says Oh, Grow Up! … US Not a Socialist Country
July 12, 2012
What the hell is this? Milos Forman, who won Academy Awards for best director for the films "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus," has penned a defense of the formal American military/political system, the one that is waging at least six overt and cov ...
Obama's Immigration Machinations
July 12, 2012
Not for a moment do I buy that President Obama has suddenly grasped the plight of illegal immigrant children. For one, he is on record declaring that the law ties his hands about the matter – that he cannot act unilaterally, or so he said in a widely availabl ...
Euro Back From the Brink Again? What a Surprise …
July 11, 2012
Yesterday, in an article entitled "Merkel and Hollande – Best in the World," we pointed out that much of what passed for news analysis in the mainstream press was simply leader-worship, a definitive dominant social theme. Yes, the power elite that wants to ru ...
Americans' Trust in TV Degrades Again
July 11, 2012
It is kind of funny to see Gallup's execs wondering why Americans don't "trust" television these days. Could it have anything to do with the wider disconnect between what people are told and what seems real? We certainly think so. We notice there is no dearth o ...
Merkel and Hollande – Best in the World
July 10, 2012
Reuters and the Associated Press are the two main newswires from which so many of the bought-and-paid-for media get their copy. It is hard to say which one is worse but marginally it is probably Reuters – as this article excerpted above proves once again. In ...
The Most Inspiring Article Ever on Paul Williams – and How It Crashed
July 10, 2012
We read this article on Paul Williams with considerable fascination. He's never been a favorite songwriter of ours, this famous, tiny songwriter (a little over five feet tall) who seems to have a schmaltz button where his heart should be. But there is no denyin ...
The Final Executive Order: Death of the Republic
July 10, 2012
This 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 long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becom ...
Fractional Reserve Banking, Government and Moral Hazard
July 10, 2012
Last week my subcommittee held a hearing on fractional reserve banking and the moral hazard created by government (taxpayer) insured deposits. Fractional reserve banking is the practice by which banks accept deposits but only keep a fraction of those deposits o ...
Capitalism Is Swell Anyway … Or Is It?
July 09, 2012
Some days the UK Telegraph just provides us with an enormous amount of fodder and this is one of those days. Let's take a look at this article excerpted above and see where it departs from reality – as we see it anyway ... It is by Roger Bootle, a UK Telegrap ...
Labour Floats an Investment Bank – Oh, boy!
July 09, 2012
The head of the Labour Party is going green, as in "Greenbacker." One of the planks of the US Greenbacker movement, from what we can tell, is an investment bank. And now Ed Miliband is on board. In fact, the Labour Party has just issued a big white paper entitl ...
Whose Life is it Anyway?
July 09, 2012
There was a movie with this title some time ago, starring Richard Dreyfuss, that had to do with whether a person has the right to end his or her own life. If one has a right to one's life, that choice is surely one's own. Having rights has to do with freedom or ...
Richard Ebeling on Libertarianism, Anarchism and the Truth of Austrian Economics
July 08, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Richard Ebeling. Introduction: Dr. Richard Ebeling is a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and professor of economics at Northwood ...
Who is on the Wrong Side of History?
July 07, 2012
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 call the process the Internet Reformation and we're creating a society to formalize su ...
Triumph of Hillary Clinton?
July 06, 2012
There is a sub-meme bubbling up from Washington DC concerning Hillary Clinton and the terrific manner in which she has conducted the business of the State Department during her tenure there as Secretary of State. We've noticed a pickup in mainstream media effus ...
Suicide Is Painless
July 06, 2012
This article announcing his ambition actually appeared in June. It was ostensibly triggered by a news assignment that saw the 67-year-old moving in with a "pensioner" and visiting a "care home for dementia patients" for a BBC series. Of course, we're not surpri ...
Build a Growth Mindset
July 06, 2012
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 thinking of yourself in terms of traits. Traits are fixed qualities that do not change much ...
The LIBOR Scandal Is a Sham Engineered by Central Banking Elites?
July 05, 2012
We've written two articles about the LIBOR scandal and yet we haven't had a bit of impact! How surprising is that? Well ... not very surprising. Nor are we surprised. The Internet Reformation is not based on individual revelations. It is a process not an episod ...
Rolling Stone Channels Steinbeck With Story About the US Declining Middle Class
July 05, 2012
Another farcical story from the Kingdom of Farce that has resolved itself gradually into a magazine called Rolling Stone. Is it well written? Sure. Is it moving, even heart-wrenching? Absolutely. Then, you may ask, why is it farcical? Because it does what media ...
Markets and Generosity
July 05, 2012
A frequent though quite unjustified charge against free markets is that they encourage what Karl Marx called the cash nexus or, as it is also put, commodification, treating people as items for sale. The claim is that when people engage in commerce, they are har ...
Poison of Neo-National Socialist Public Banking
July 04, 2012
It is ironic that as Germany's public banking sector continues its realignment (see above excerpt), various forms of public banking become more popular on the English-speaking Internet. What most do not realize about the argument that paper money can provide th ...
Alexa Is Nuts: Our Best Days Are Now
July 04, 2012
The Daily Bell just had two of our biggest days ever but you wouldn't know it from Alexa, the Internet decider of record that is truly a nutty facility. Last month we received 17 million hits, down from our record of 24 million earlier in the year, but that's b ...
An American Declaration of Independence From Big Government
July 04, 2012
The Declaration of Independence, signed by members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. What is too often forgotten is that what the Founding Fathers argued against in the Declarati ...
Madame Lagarde Prolongs the Pain
July 03, 2012
Funny, you would think that private enterprise makes money, but not according to the International Monetary Fund and Christine Lagarde. Lagarde wants the US government to do more. This is an evident and obvious dominant social theme of the power elite for whom ...
God Has Risen in a Particle?
July 03, 2012
We've written a number of articles about the electric universe because it's such an elegant theory and because the theory of gravitational physics keeps collapsing, in our view. Yes, while it surely is collapsing under its own weight and complexity, that doesn' ...
Audit the Fed Headed for the House Floor!
July 03, 2012
Last week supporters of Federal Reserve transparency had a major victory when the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform passed my Audit the Fed bill, HR 459 unanimously with all major audit provisions intact. This clears the way for a House floor v ...
Barclays Scandal, Worse and Worse … Whatever It Is!
July 02, 2012
The Barclays scandal grows worse and worse. So here's a question: If you asked the average man on the street what the fuss was about, what answer would you get? And if you told him the LIBOR rate was subjective anyway, what would be the response? And that Barcl ...
Financial Crime Must Be Punished!
July 02, 2012
The bankers are up to no good. This is a fact and the poll referred to above is further evidence of it. Eventually, laws must be changed and hearings must be held to ensure that the financial industry is made as transparent and honest as every other part of Wes ...
My Fourth of July Reflections
July 02, 2012
For some people the Fourth of July is the most important holiday in America. Sadly, not for all, especially not just now when most of the leadership of the country has made it clear that principles do not matter. What matters is what is expedient or practical, ...
Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire
July 01, 2012
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Angela Keaton. Introduction: Angela Keaton is the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She is currently chairman of the board for the Ladies of Liberty Alliance (LOLA) and national secretary f ...
Memento Mori …
June 30, 2012
Sometimes you find yourself in a quiet place and ask yourself questions. Here are some of mine. What if someone set up a society that would first and foremost offer a path to promote self-reliance strategies and positive expectations about life and living? What ...
Does Announced EU Deal Leave Out Critical Elements?
June 29, 2012
Jim Rogers's analysis of the "deal" that has been reached by top EU "policymakers" (excerpted above) is probably accurate. Apparently, EU leaders will now be able to lend to banks without further degrading their various countries' credit status. But why filling ...
Virologists Sue Merck for Faking Positive Results on Mumps Vaccine
June 29, 2012
With the Supreme Court's decision to validate major parts of "Obamacare," the paradigm of Western medicine is more firmly enshrined than ever, and thus the behavior of its component parts is even more important. What has happened under the current system is tha ...
Barclays LIBOR Corruption a Phony Ploy to Strengthen the Bloomberg/Qatar QIBOR?
June 28, 2012
Free-Market Analysis: So Barclay's resides at the "heart of darkness" which is LIBOR – various rates at which banks and the rest of can borrow. Something isn't quite right about this. Bloomberg is busy setting up QIBOR in Qatar, and the putative explanation i ...
The Most Important Meeting in the World … Again
June 28, 2012
Stephen Leeb is worried about the state of the world and has piled all his hopes on some sociopaths meeting today and tomorrow in Brussels. We use the word "sociopath" only to point up the lunatic determination it takes to claw oneself into a position of power ...
Gigantic Global Money Supply Expansion Underway
June 28, 2012
We are amidst an economic phase of volatility and sequential recessions followed by quasi-recoveries. We have titled this overall economic scenario a "Reflationary Debt Trap." I expect this scenario to hold for the coming months. In my view, European leaders wi ...
Anticipated Reasoning by the Court
June 28, 2012
A few weeks ago I wrote in one of my columns as follows: "...[T]he discussion of President Obama's federal policy requiring that everyone obtain health insurance has frequently focused on the fact that either an employer or individual would be forced to obtain ...
EU Continues to Go Down the Wrong Track
June 27, 2012
This article asserts something that we have written about a good deal from the aspect of the European political economy. In fact, we recently quoted the UK Telegraph on the political evolution of the EU and the euro. Turns out it was both malignant and creepy. ...
Our Raving Friend: You Must Write About the Rise of National Socialist Economics! (OK, Just Once)
June 27, 2012
Our raving friend is back. He's the nutter with the obsession about Greenbacks and the CIA. We've already reported rebuttals to the idea that US progenitors of "Greenbackerism" and other paper money strategies have links to US intel, but on he goes ... calling ...
No Risk, No Fun, No Freedom
June 27, 2012
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, Mexico. They brought their kids to a park there to play, and saw all the equipment that i ...
Could You Make It Up? … World's Oldest Bank Gets Modern Bailout Worth Billions
June 26, 2012
Every day we slap our (admittedly low-slung) brows and let out whistles of amazement. The latest reason: It seems the world's oldest private bank is in need of a government loan. Once upon a time all banks were private, even the ones that belonged to the ruler. ...
Condoleezza Rice's Authoritarian Fantasy and Her CBS Enablers
June 26, 2012
This is an article (along with a video) that reports on former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice's determination not to be the vice presidential candidate for the Mitt Romney GOP campaign. But halfway through the article, the text takes a really weird turn tow ...
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