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April 07, 2014
Savvy portions of the alternative 'Net press have stated for months now that the Fed's "tapering" was not going to make much of a difference, and this article tends to confirm it. As explained above, top officials of the European Central Bank are seriously cons ...
April 07, 2014
The victory of Federal Liberals in upcoming Canadian elections would surely help confirm our hypothesis that the legalization of marijuana is a pre-planned elite promotion. Justin Trudeau himself is behind it – and Trudeau is a convincing asset when it comes ...
April 07, 2014
Last week we saw yet another tragedy at Ft. Hood, Texas, as a distraught Iraq war veteran killed three of his fellow soldiers before killing himself. It is nearly five years after the last Ft. Hood shooting, where 13 people were killed. These tragedies are hear ...
April 06, 2014
Market risk is huge today, but political risk is even bigger. One indication of that was, when the banks in Cyprus went bust some months ago, the government essentially confiscated everybody's account above 100,000 euros, in what they called a "bail-in." You co ...
April 05, 2014
I've explained before, but I'll try again, especially in light of the "big thud" that the market made on Friday. According to CNBC, "The Nasdaq narrowly avoid[ed] its worst one-day loss this year as momentum names got crushed for a second day. The Dow and S&P 5 ...
April 04, 2014
Public companies are required to list a number of risk factors and now we can add environmental ones. If a company does not offer an analysis of the ways that "climate change" might affect it, then eventually regulators will likely force the issue. The Economis ...
April 04, 2014
We have argued in these pages that the legalization of marijuana is inevitable because the power elite supports it. Here comes an article right on time about George Soros and his determination to invest in "legalization" rather than incarceration. Granted, Soro ...
April 04, 2014
As we documented in previous articles, the gold price is driven down in the paper futures market by naked short selling by the Fed's dependent bullion banks. Some people have a hard time accepting this fact even though it is known that the big banks have manipu ...
April 03, 2014
The point of this analysis from AP is to put the demise of civil society into a perspective that the average person can understand and accept. Under no circumstances is the average person to understand that the "demise of the middle class" has been preordained ...
April 03, 2014
The irritation that so many feel regarding gold is always surprising. And actually, it tells us that gold is still very important. Otherwise, why would its very presence on the investment scene bother so many? While we missed this article when it came out towar ...
April 03, 2014
On March 14th, Cato Institute ran an article entitled "SCOTUS Deferred to Executive Agencies. What Happened Next Will Infuriate You!" The article and surrounding documents go a long way toward explaining why executive agencies have acquired such mind-boggling p ...
April 02, 2014
All three branches of the US fedgov have come unmoored from representative democracy and are actively promoting globalism under the approving eye of the power elite. All three arms of US government constantly support more intrusive government, undeclared, endle ...
April 02, 2014
Good news. British scientists have discovered the way weather works and are able to predict it. Or so an article in the UK Telegraph tells us. This is fortunate, as the UN has just released ANOTHER very gloomy prognostication regarding global warming, er ... cl ...
April 02, 2014
There is an ongoing debate afoot about America's founding. Basically, the issue is whether the country is based on Christian or on secular principles. There is some credibility in both claims. If one takes the Declaration of Independence as the most basic state ...
April 01, 2014
The world's pre-eminent cycle forecaster has caught up to us (see above excerpt). Martin Armstrong published his grim analysis on his own website and over at ZeroHedge and it's attracting a great deal of attention. Armstrong is no flash in the pan. A forecastin ...
April 01, 2014
The IPCC has reaffirmed again what is undoubtedly true: The climate is changing. In fact, the climate changes every day. The climate change meme has thus been a very clever substitution for "global warming," as the latter was disprovable while the former is not ...
April 01, 2014
For almost a century, since the end of the First World War in 1918, mankind has been in search of international order and global peace through the political method of international organization. However, instead of peace among men, the last one hundred years ha ...
March 31, 2014
Seldom do we see an article that incorporates so many dominant and sub-dominant social themes so seamlessly. Obama is attacked in this article for a variety of reasons and is portrayed as a weak president whose behavior is making the world a more dangerous plac ...
March 31, 2014
Is medical marijuana the wave of the future? We've argued that while the legalization of marijuana is a kind of dominant social theme, it may not be so controllable as some currently believe. In fact, this article excerpted above portrays the emergent marijuana ...
March 31, 2014
Last week Congress overwhelmingly passed a bill approving a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. The bill will likely receive the president's signature within days. If you think this is the last time US citizens will have their money ...
March 31, 2014
The explosive growth in the number of converts to libertarianism since Ron Paul first ran for president is one of the most exciting developments of my life. But I'd like to issue a note of caution. There are several ways a young libertarian can distinguish hims ...
March 30, 2014
The doctrinaire policy-makers in America are unlikely to do what must be done. But any jurisdiction (say Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, or China) may open its mint to the free and unlimited coinage of gold (and silver). We must understand that the gol ...
March 29, 2014
We have noticed a trend toward boldness – even brazenness – when it comes to manipulating the media in the US. It's as if politicians especially are not even bothering to hide their intentions. We recently ran an article entitled, "Congress Mulls Licensing ...
March 29, 2014
Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ...
March 28, 2014
At the very top of the globalist enterprise is a power elite that is more closely aligned with each other than with their countrymen. This is hard for people to grasp, though. For instance, the European Union is part of a larger elite gambit to create political ...
March 28, 2014
The Ukraine debacle has exposed certain truths to the world about the way the West operates and how the power elite destabilizes countries politically in order to gain further control over them. IMF officials are doing themselves no favors by participating, but ...
March 28, 2014
Libertarians and free-market conservatives take an unequivocal stand on the provision of state welfare. It should be phased out and returned to the private sector. Charity is not a proper function of government. This, of course, attracts the usual horrified den ...
March 27, 2014
France is the sick man of Europe according to this article, because its manufacturing and service sectors are contracting. But in reality, France is no sicker than any other country in Europe. They all suffer from the same problems: monetary over-stimulation, o ...
March 27, 2014
Fund manager Jeremy Grantham has put the blame for the US's endlessly degrading economy where it belongs – with the Federal Reserve. The Fortune interview, as we can see, finds some of Grantham's conclusions to be bonkers. The biggest problem that Fortune has ...
March 27, 2014
A March 11th headline in the The Wall Street Journal read, "Sage Grouse Rebellion. Will Obama use two small birds to limit oil drilling in the West?" The article opened, "Almost half the land west of the Mississippi belongs to the federal government, including ...
March 26, 2014
Right on schedule and just as we predicted, it is suddenly occurring to mainstream pundits that the right/left paradigm of the US's political structure is collapsing. What's going to take its place? Why, a kind of libertarianism, of course.That's the point of t ...
March 26, 2014
This is a very interesting squib of a story because it hints at the reality of the world while withholding the details. Notice the "news" in the Times excerpt above. "Bloomberg declined to publish an investigative article that explored financial ties between on ...
March 26, 2014
I am puzzled that there is hardly any mention in the press – columns, editorials, etc. – about Mr. Obama's executive intrusion in the employment realm. He wants to have overtime pay be higher than it is. He seems to think it is the task of the president to ...
March 25, 2014
The damage of warmist fanaticism is spread far and wide across the world; we've continued to cover it because it is one of the clumsiest of dominant social themes and thus one of the most obvious. We pointed out recently that the tragic Malaysian plane that van ...
March 25, 2014
From the standpoint of "justice," the eventual reversal of tens of thousands of marijuana cases in the US can be seen as bolstering civil society. But it also raises serious questions and will have serious ramifications. Chief among these ramifications will be ...
March 25, 2014
Russian president Vladimir Putin's power grab and annexation of the Crimea has filled global news headlines as he attempts to reverse what he has called the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century" – the collapse of the Soviet Union. But i ...
March 24, 2014
If it weren't tough enough to distinguish fact from propaganda, the US government is surely getting ready to hand out licenses to "approved" reporting facilities ... sooner or later anyway. Of course, that's not how it's being reported by these same facilities. ...
March 24, 2014
The global warming meme must be advanced at all costs, even over dead, apparently drowned bodies. Of course, it is possible that the passengers of the missing Malaysian Airline flight are still alive. But even alive they are party to a dominant social theme, as ...
March 24, 2014
It was almost ten years ago when, before the House International Relations Committee, I objected to the US Government funding NGOs to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine. At the time the "Orange Revolution" had forced a regime change in Ukraine with the h ...
March 23, 2014
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) was formed in January 1999 by my colleague Chris Powell and myself to expose and oppose the manipulation and suppression of the price of gold. Initially we thought that the manipulation of the gold market was undertak ...
March 22, 2014
The sky is falling. The seas are rising. The ground shakes. The very fabric of space and time trembles. And stocks go up. This is called "The Wall Street Party." The power elite that in aggregate organizes central banking policy and is responsible for foreign p ...
March 21, 2014
This editorial makes the case that the US framers who wrote the Constitution intended to have a powerful chief executive who could make broad decisions in a short period of time. However, the reality of the US Constitution is that the framers were under specifi ...
March 21, 2014
We've focused our analysis of the emerging marijuana meme on the inevitability of decriminalization and even legalization around the world. We've gotten some pushback (from feedbackers) as well; the argument is that what has happened so far is merely a disconne ...
March 20, 2014
This story is interesting for two reasons: It speaks the truth about Britain's non-existent recovery and it lies about the US one. First, Britain: Indeed, the "recovery" that Britain is supposed to be having doesn't seem to be materializing. This is not surpris ...
March 20, 2014
It's hard to believe this meme is taking off, but apparently it is. Just as with electric cars, there is no single person – not one – who woke up in the morning determined to live in a skyscraper made of wood. But nonetheless, the power elite that is behind ...
March 20, 2014
Is there a libertarian theory of vicarious liability? I first considered the question as a result of a humorous incident. It was the last night of a conference and a few of us were sitting on a couch in a lobby off the main lecture hall in which students were g ...
March 19, 2014
There are two main props to the authoritarian force of modern capitalism, so far as we can tell. One is monopoly central banking and the other is corporate personhood. Both of these are enforced by law, which means if you somehow try to undermine either of thes ...
March 19, 2014
Should we be concerned that US individuals don't care about global warming/climate change? Bloomberg thinks so. This ill-written editorial attempts to figure out why Republicans in particular discount manmade climate change. It is almost laughable to read an ed ...
March 19, 2014
There is a debate afoot now about whether one ever owns the likes of a novel, poem, computer game, song, arrangement or similar "intellectual" items. Some argue, to quote the skeptic, Professor Tom Bell of Chapman University's School of Law, "Copyrights and pa ...
March 18, 2014
This article goes against the common wisdom regarding rating agencies. In fact, this article concludes that ratings agencies' main purpose, from the point of view of the big banks that use them, is to justify decisions to invest in risky, high-yielding product. ...
