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01.22.19- What Will Take the Place of America?
Investigative genius Gordon Duff wrote recently about the psychopathic killer, former Vice-President Dick Cheney in a piece about the indecency of Washington. Discussing a new film called “V-I-C-E,” which fries Cheney on the spit like a big fat hen, Duff encapsulates what mucky slime our nation’s capital is infested with the following passage: Read More |
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01.21.19- C.S. Lewis Sounded the Alarm on the Dangers of Progressivism
C.S. Lewis: World-renowned author, philosopher, theologian. Christian apologist. Mere mention of his name fills our minds with images of faith-based allegory, of lions, witches, and wardrobes, of rational defenses of the Christian faith. Read More |
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01.19.19- The U.S. Economy and the Ponzi Scheme
The most famous Ponzi scheme of modern day was run by Bernie Madoff from New York City who managed to turn $5,000 saved from a lifeguarding job and installing sprinkler systems into nearly $65 billion of accounts. During the run of the scheme he was able to amass an impressive list of clients including numerous celebrities and other well-known public figures. Arvedlund, E. (2018). Read More |
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01.18.19- This problem is 10,000 times bigger than the border wall
Don’t get me wrong, I like having the government shut down. As I’ve said before, I believe it is my moral duty to pay as little taxes as possible. The government does some really stupid things with your tax dollars. I’d rather not pay for a $2 billion Obamacare website that doesn’t work, or to defend Congressmen against sexual assault allegations. So, by starving the beast, I at least ensure they’re not squandering my money. Read More |
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01.17.19- This New Market Could Make You a Fortune in 2019
He had a rattlesnake with its jaw open and fangs exposed glued to the front of it. With a Texas drawl, he’d tell the other players how he had killed it himself. At 6’4’’ and 170 pounds, Amarillo Slim was the greatest gambler to ever live. He made his first million in 1947 when he was only 19. His unforgettable look helped make poker a mainstream game around 20 years ago. Read More |
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01.16.19- Where Will You Be Seated at the Banquet of Consequences?
The Banquet of Consequences is being laid out, and so the question is: where will you be seated? The answer depends on two dynamics I've mentioned many times: what types of capital you own and the asymmetries of our economy. One set of asymmetries is the result of the system isn't broken, it's fixed, i.e. rigged to favor the few at the expense of the many. There are many manifestations of neofeudal asymmetry that divides neatly into two classes and two systems, the nobility and the serfs. Read More |
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01.14.19- Why I Will No Longer Recognize
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01.12.19- This Technology Will Be Bigger
There was a human in the driver’s seat, but he didn’t touch the steering wheel, gas, or brake pedals for the entire trip. The self-driving car drove itself the entire distance. If any readers are curious about the trip, have a look at the time-lapse video of the entire coast-to-coast journey here. This coast-to-coast, self-driving journey was the first of its kind. Yet it got little to no press. Read More |
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01.11.19- The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
I realize many of the concepts floated here are cryptic and need a fuller explanation: the impact of owning differing kinds of capital, fragmentation, asymmetry, opacity, etc. ( 2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque). These dynamics guarantee a highly uneven distribution of recessionary consequences and whatever rewards are generated will be reaped by a few. Read More |
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01.10.19- Here’s Where the Next Crisis Starts
The reason has to do with the system scale. In complex dynamic systems such as capital markets, risk is an exponential function of system scale. Increasing market scale correlates with exponentially larger market collapses. Read More |
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01.09.19- The Last Act Crowns the Play
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306 -337 AD) legalized Christianity but allowed the existence of other religions. Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD; other religions were considered foolish. Read More |
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01.08.19- Our Politics Now: Up vs. Down,
Just look at how most Americans view federal spending: total government spending (federal, state, and local) accounts for 37.7 percent of the country’s overall gross domestic product. In other words, 37.7 percent of America’s economic growth is set to be generated by government spending (which is why Wall Street and other analysts worry about a government shutdown). Read More |
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01.07.19- Why Trump Must Legalize Pot
Legal pot is a bit out of our wheelhouse here at the Diary. As Bill often says, his usual beat is money. But cannabis is now legal nationwide in Canada. It is expected to be lawful in Mexico starting this year. And a majority of Americans now favor legal pot. With all these forces converging, this is a trend that should be on every investor’s radar. Read More |
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01.05.19- Tax Attorney: Social Security Participants About to be “Disenfranchised”
According to the trustees running the program, Social Security will be forced to start cutting benefits by 2034, 15 years from now. According to Waiser the crisis will hit in three years. Read More |
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01.04.19- Markets are all about flows
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01.03.19- 2019 From a Fourth Turning Perspective
Strauss and Howe wrote their book in 1996. They were not trying to be prophets of doom, but observers of history able to connect events through human life cycles of 80 or so years. Using critical thinking skills and identifying the most likely triggers for crisis: debt, civic decay, and global disorder, they were able to anticipate scenarios which could drive the next crisis, which they warned would arrive in the mid-2000 decade. Read More |
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01.02.19- The World Known to Me Is Fading Away
Over these holidays two occurrances brought the strangeness of the present time home to me. Read More |
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01.01.19- Opinion: Roubini: President Trump is flirting with mutually assured economic destruction
Financial markets have finally awoken to the fact that Donald Trump is U.S. president. Given that the world has endured two years of reckless tweets and public statements by the world’s most powerful man, the obvious question is: what took so long? Read More |
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12.31.18- Guess What These Four Fastest Growing States Have in Common…
“Non-essential” government workers… well then what the hell are they doing there? Every penny of federal spending should be only the most absolutely crucial, necessary cent to keep the country’s most basic functions going… Read More |
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12.29.18- The Baby Boomer Survival Guide – Part 2
Money is our beat at the Diary. But money means nothing without philosophy. Beyond what we need to survive, money has no importance. Is it good? Is it bad? It depends. We need a simple philosophy to make sense of it – to guide us past the Gucci bags… past cable TV… and past the million-euro apartments of the 16th arrondissement in Paris. Read More |
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12.18.28- The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis
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12.27.18- The Baby Boomer Survival Guide – Part 1
This is the question we get from readers over 50… over 60… and sometimes, over 70. We baby boomers were famously saying “Na… na… na… Live for today.” Now, it’s tomorrow. And many of us – often through no fault of our own – are having trouble making ends meet. Read More |
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12.26.18- “The Worst Is Yet To Come Next Year”
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12.25.18- The Greatest Gift For All
Dear Donors, thank you for your support in 2018. Although you have kept me working yet another year, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be those people. My traditional Christmas column goes back to sometime in the 1990s when I was a newspaper columnist. It has been widely reprinted at home and abroad. Every year two or three readers write to educate me that religion is the source of wars and persecutions. These readers confuse religion with mankind’s abuse of institutions, religious or otherwise. The United States has democratic institutions and legal institutions to protect civil liberties. Nevertheless, we now have a police state. Shall I argue that democracy and civil liberty are the causes of police states? Read More |
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12.24.18- How to Barter for Survival (not just a list): 100+ Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World
Do you know how to barter? In preparedness circles, the term barter is used a lot when describing a post SHTF situation when goods and services may no longer be available through normal channels. According to Wikipedia, ”barter is a method of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money”. Read More |
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12.22.18- Do you really have to go to work?
That’s how it has been for decades and decades, right? And before that Sunday was the only day off, and the hours were much longer. These traditions began in factory settings when everything had to be standardized. It’s not like farmers were clocking in and punching out… they worked when there was work to do. Which was basically always. But as we turn over to 2019, do we still need to work the five day work week? Do we still need to commute to the office? And should work even be hourly or even salary for most professions, or task-based? Read More |
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12.21.18- The History of Banking Control in the United States
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12.20.18- The 10 Daily Habits of Prepared People
The way prepared people spend their time before an emergency is the real key to survival, and this is something that no amount of money can buy. Read More |
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12.19.18- Anything Goes!
Some few humans, among whose small number I count myself, know that this is our condition, but the vast majority of humanity are not aware of the dire situation in which we live. One result of the collective insanity which prevails in our modern world is that it has allowed the very worst of the lunatics, possessing destructive impulses, to rise to dominant positions in human societies. Read More |
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12.18.18- I Can’t Afford to Live in this Private Community. And I Wish Everywhere Was Like This.
And I don’t mean some arrangement between coercive government and “private” companies that make their money from government contracts. That arrangement actually produces the inequality that people blame on free markets. Notice how everyone is taxed. Yet the government spends the money enriching the government defense contractors, handing out subsidies to already rich oil companies, bailing out sub-par automakers and predatory bankers… Read More |
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12.17.18- Why Speculators Should Love
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12.15.18- Texas Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
Judge Reed O’Connor, a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas appointed by former President George W. Bush, ruled that Obamacare violated the Constitution. 20 Republican state attorneys general brought the suit, Texas v. Azar, who asked the court to rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) violates the Constitution after Republicans managed to zero out Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty with the Jobs Act last year. The judge ruled that the law’s individual mandate violates the Constitution and therefore the entire ACA violates the Constitution. Read More |
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12.14.18- What is the Deep Web and How Do You Get There in 2018?
The Silk Road, a website synonymous with shady dealings, was shut down twice by the FBI and its founder, the Dread Pirate Roberts, also known as Ross Ulbricht, imprisoned for life. Read More |
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12.13.18- A Bad Moon Rising –
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12.12.18- A Crisis in the Making: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis. What makes the outlook so much bleaker is the utter ignorance of the American people—and those who represent them—about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate. Read More |
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12.10.18- Dow 10,000
When the closing bell finally sounded, the Dow was down just 79 points. The monkeys were greatly relieved. And today, the Fed sets up another drink. Here’s a headline from The Wall Street Journal:
Our advice to readers: Relax… and enjoy the comedy show. Read More |
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12.08.18- What to Do When the Market Goes “Nuts”
Hogwash. In the long term, I’ll agree that markets are efficient, investors are rational, and stock prices generally end up where they are logically supposed to. In the short term, though, the market is nuts. Fear and Greed Read More |
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12.07.18- Things Change, But Not Always For The Better
Knowing that these cycles occur can give a person an idea of what to prepare for in the future. We know that the national debt doubles about every 8 years. We know that the economy goes into a recession every 6 to 8 years. We know that the FED manipulates the economy with money printing and interest rates. We know politicians spend money we don’t have to get reelected. Read More |
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12.06.18- "Too Perfect to be Natural": Those Strange Seismic Waves
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12.05.18- Is An Offshore Account Safe?
Jamie Virjhof, Relationship Manager of Weber Hartmann Virjhof & Partners Ltd. recently interviewed me and addressed those concerns. Read More |
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12.04.18- Another Serious
To visualize this problem, let’s make an analogy to someone who inherits a family farm. There are two approaches to making a living from a farm. In the first—we’ll call this investing—Farmer Brown determines how to produce the greatest amount of food at the least cost. He increases production of milk from his herd, and apples from his orchard. Read More |
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12.03.18- How “Laziness” Can Make You Wealthy
– From Principles of Wealth, by Mark Ford The unpaid bills are stacked next to the unwashed dishes. You’ve been short about $1,200 per month since the divorce. You need something to fill that income gap – some sort of money-making scheme that’s feasible, flexible, and profitable. It can’t be a financial investment because you’ve got no savings. What’s there to do? Read More |
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12.01.18- How to Profit From Trade War Hysteria
…Apple (AAPL). Apple sells the wildly popular iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. It’s one of the most recognized companies on the planet. It was the world’s most valuable publicly traded company until Microsoft (MSFT) overtook it on Monday. So how did a company this powerful get caught up in the trade war? Simple. On Monday, President Trump threatened to introduce a 10% tariff on consumer electronic products made in China. This would impact the iPhone and other Apple products…Read More |
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11.30.18- Rothschild rule ends
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11.28.18- The Best Stock Investors: Dead People
But you don’t have to guess. Because you don’t make money in the stock market from short-term moves. You’ll guess wrong as often as right, and you’ll end up getting nowhere. It’s the big, long-term moves that make a difference. And the trouble is, sometimes, those moves last longer than we do. Read More |
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11.28.18- The Best Stock Investors: Dead People
But you don’t have to guess. Because you don’t make money in the stock market from short-term moves. You’ll guess wrong as often as right, and you’ll end up getting nowhere. It’s the big, long-term moves that make a difference. And the trouble is, sometimes, those moves last longer than we do. Read More |
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11.27.18- End This Madness
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It is a bit of an alienating experience for one to see the nation of his birth and the principles of our ancestors under constant assault, from foreigners and people born here who are amerikkans rather than Americans. I refer to those Muslims who desire Sharia law, the Black Muslims who simply hate America, LaRaza with its Hispanic communists and conquerors who want to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico, the communist Democrat Party that seeks the eradication of our Founding Principles and the destruction of our Constitution and Republic, and those communist proletarians, the TAKERS, who seek their upkeep and livelihood at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.  |
11.26.18- Thoughts From The Precipice
As you already know, things are unraveling. The narratives of the past are being revealed as false and fraudulent — even harmful. For example, the fallacy of pursuing “ever more” growth. Growth up to a point is beneficial, but it turns self-destructive when it exceeds what available resources can sustain. As it is practiced, economic growth as pursued around the world today is now destructive. If we continue on our current trajectory, it will become fatal. Read More |
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11.24.18- Weekend Rant: Mad World
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11.23.18- The Assassination of Bitcoin
The collapse of bitcoin – down 68% year to date and 78% from its all-time high of $20,000, set in December 2017, when it traded at $4,200.22 earlier this week – may have a perfectly normal explanation. It’s a bubble that popped. Or it’s happened before and is nothing to worry about. As my colleagues have shown their readers in the last week, bitcoin dropped 94% in 2010, 94% in 2011, 85% from 2013 to 2015, and 76% in a three-month period alone in 2013. Read More |
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11.22.18- How Not to be a Turkey on Thanksgiving
The farmer comes every day to feed the turkey and feed him well. He provides free accommodations: a nice yard to peck around in, water, shelter from predators. From the turkey’s perspective, a week before Thanksgiving, life has never been better. Read More |
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11.21.18- An Odor of Perfidy
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I suspect there’s a hidden agenda behind the announcement in The Wall Street Journal op-ed by former Hillary Clinton aide Mark Penn that the Ole Gray Mare is actually eyeing another run for the White House in 2020. No, it’s not just that she would like to be president, as she averred on video last week in a weak moment, or that she has decided late in life to go full Bolshevik policy-wise. It is to establish her in the public mind as a serious candidate so that when she is indicted a hue-and-cry will arise that the move is a purely political act of revenge by the wicked Trump.  |
This plan is under way now due to two important developments: Read More |
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11.19.18- Soaring Health-Care Costs Forced This Family to Choose Who Can Stay Insured
Then, in 2012, Maribel discovered she had breast cancer. “Your world comes crumbling down,” David says. Read More |
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11.17.18- Potential Impacts of the Midterm Elections on Your Retirement
This may have several important impacts on your retirement over the next two years (and beyond, depending on policy adjustments). These potential impacts could be crucial because the economic foundation they influence appears to be on shaky ground. In a peer-reviewed paper from the Indiana Legal Studies department, four authors collaborated and published an alarming discovery (emphasis ours): Read More |
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11.16.18- Does Any of This Make Sense?
We rarely ask "does this make any sense?" of things that are widely accepted as beneficial-- or if not beneficial, "the way it is," i.e. it can't be changed by non-elite (i.e. the bottom 99.5%) efforts. Of the vast array of things that don't make sense, let's start with borrowing from future income to spend more today. This is of course the entire foundation of consumer economies such as the U.S.: the number of households which buy a car or house with cash is near-zero, unless 1) they just sold a bubble-valuation house and paid off their mortgage in escrow or 2) they earned wealth via fiscal prudence, i.e. the avoidance of debt and the exultation of saving. Read More |
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11.15.18- Scum vs. Scum
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11.14.18- Nikola Tesla’s Wireless Energy Dream
Wireless power technology recently became popular with its application in charging wireless-capable devices, (such as a smartphone) via a Powermat interface. There is one company currently building out a true wireless power supply without the need for an intermediary “pad,” which could develop into an investment opportunity of a lifetime if it or another company successfully launches an IPO, not to mention the upstream manufacturing interface components. Read More |
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11.13.18- Reading the Second Amendment
Is this sentence so hard to understand? Apparently so. Even some of its defenders don’t like how it is worded because it allegedly breeds misunderstanding. Read More |
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11.12.18- How to Survive the “Deep State”
Maybe you’re thinking you should get behind somebody like Ron Paul (I didn’t say Rand Paul), should such a person materialize. That would be futile. Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State: Read More |
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11.10.18- It’s a Fraud. A Pyramid scheme.
Modern banking system creates money faster than our hearts beat. However, they make it so complex & unintelligible that none but they alone, understand it. All economies work pretty much the same way but since most of the global transactions use US dollar, making it the majority of the world’s currency, I will exemplify the US system. Read More |
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11.09.18- What Do We Make Of The Midterm Election?
In my opinion, flyover America voted Republican because the “deplorables” want to defend Trump. They want to defend him for two reasons. One is that he spoke to their economic plight caused by the US corporations exporting their jobs, leaving the American workforce and middle class hard-strapped. The other is that the adoption of Identity Politics by the Democratic Party has made the Democrats the party that hates white people—especially white heterosexual males who are defined as the victimizer of minorities, homosexuals, and women. Read More |
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11.08.18- America, the Tyranny of the Stupid
Then, when time and time again, no such plan materializes, and it is demonstrated that America has blundered into a diplomatic, economic or military morass, for some unknown reason, a “reset” occurs, and the wrong assumptions are again made. At every level, humanity errs in assuming that those in command are there because of talent and worth or that, because America is so wealthy and powerful, that its people are such because of moral and intellectual superiority. Read More |
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11.07.18- How do we keep getting dragged into this electoral spectator sport?
Little more than a bare-knuckle boxing match. If you were to suddenly catch a glimpse of such a fight, you would see real blood, real punches, swollen lips, black eyes, and a final knockout. It looks like a real spontaneous fight. But the match was planned, set up, with rules and parameters. That’s an election. Except that it is shoved in all of our faces, while they lie and tell us it wasn’t a planned fight. Not interested in seeing the blood and gore? Not interested in watching two people beat each other to a pulp? Well, you can turn off the boxing match, but good luck avoiding election coverage. Read More |
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11.06.18- Are You Prepared For Lockdown? How To Stay Safe When All Hell Breaks Loose In America
Pretending that it isn’t happening or hoping to hug it out is not a rational response to the chaos that is coming. I know that some cling to their misguided views on the way the world works with the ferocity of a mother bear protecting cubs, but for the rest of us, there’s this thing called reality. When we accept it, we can prepare for it. Read More |
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11.05.18- The Fourth Turning and the
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11.03.18- This Radical Proposal for Social Security Underscores Its Desperate Future
But the economic crisis that started in 2008 shed critical light on Greenspan’s economic policy. He’s 92 now, and as he promotes a new book, he’s sharing some rather radical economic ideas. Read More |
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11.02.18- Politicians Are Creating The Worst Economic Crash In History
I have explained several times that the bulk of investment capital is tied up in two primary sectors – (1) government bonds and (2) real estate. Because of income taxes, real estate has offered a way to make money in capital gains without having to pay income taxes. Read More |
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Shock Claim: The Media Is Reporting That Some In The 2nd Migrant Caravan Have
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10.31.18- Is America Finished?
Americans are now so polarized that they “no longer share basic sympathies and trust, because they no longer regard each other as worthy of equal consideration.” Codevilla blames the progressives and their attitude of moral superiority, but his explanation is independent of who is to blame. I blame both sides. The Constitution and our civil liberties took a major hit from the “conservative” Republican regime of George W. Bush. Read More |
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10.30.18- A Perfect Storm Is Brewing
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10.29.18- End of the World – Part Two
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10.27.18- What a bunch of idiots
A few days ago the creator of the most famous consumer ‘credit score’ in the United States announced a major overhaul in how it rates borrowers. Consumers live and die by this ‘FICO score’. A high FICO score means that it’s easy to obtain loans at lower interest rates. And a bad FICO score (in theory) means that you have a history of not paying your debts… hence making it difficult to obtain loans. Read More |
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10.25.18- Will there ever be a "freedom loving" majority? And do we even need there to be?
People like to romanticize a time when America was more wholesome… when everyone got along and put petty differences aside to fight wars and such. A time when political campaigns were more civil… like in the Presidential election of 1800. That was when a pro-Adams newspaper said that “murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced,” if Jefferson was elected. And the Jefferson supporters responded by claiming that Adams was more like a hermaphrodite than a man or woman. Read More |
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10.24.18- The Average Stock Is Overvalued Between Tremendously And Enormously
With all of that, my firm is having little success finding solid companies at attractive valuations. Read More |
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10.23.18- Weaker Dollar Helps Set Silver Prices for a Breakout
Why silver prices are set for a breakout as the dollar falls With gold having recaptured much of its losses earlier this month, silver could be next in line for a breakout on the back of a weaker dollar reports Money Morning. As columnist Peter Krauth notes, silver moved as the stock market went through a tailspin and ultimately ended higher at $14.28 an ounce. Read More |
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In particular, Limbaugh talked about what it would take for hundreds and thousands of people to make such a long journey on foot, and through a number of countries after the caravan originated in Honduras. Read More |
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10.20.18- End of the World – Part One
An estimate of risk versus reward based on an analysis of current information is more useful. Read More |
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10.19.18- How to Make a Fortune in the Gold-Backed Crypto Revolution
It’s simply the best way to preserve wealth over the long term. Now, with the advent of cryptocurrencies and decentralized blockchain technology, people have a complementary tool for advancing their financial freedom. Read More |
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10.18.18- 4 Ways the Skyrocketing Budget Deficit Could Wreck Your Retirement
Investopedia defines a budget deficit when “expenses exceed revenue and it is an indicator of financial health.” Referring to the U.S. they added “Accrued government deficits form the national debt.” According to an official statement released by Steve Mnuchin and Mick Mulvaney at the Treasury, the FY 2018 budget deficit rose 17% over the previous period to $779 billion. Read More |
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The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Currently, we are in the terminal phase of an “everything bubble” which has had ten years to grow. It is the biggest financial bubble that our country has ever seen, and experts are warning that when it finally bursts we will experience an economic downturn that is even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Of course many of us in the alternative media have been warning about what is coming for quite some time, but now even many in the mainstream media have jumped on the bandwagon.  |
10.16.18- UN Climate Change Report: A Choice between “Mad Max and Hunger Games”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this week released a special report detailing all the ways climate change is predicted to wreak havoc on humans. The report is about 800 pages long, so I’ll offer a summary to save you some time: Read More |
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10.15.18- International relations:
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10.13.18- The Last Rebels: 25 Things We Did as Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today
Here’s the problem with all of this babying: it creates a society of weenies. There won’t be more rebels because this generation has been frightened into submission and apathy through a deliberately orchestrated culture of fear. No one will have faced adventure and lived to greatly embroider the story |
With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods.
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10.12.18- Dow 40,000 is coming, but only after ‘a large panic event’ passes, analyst warns Back in January 2016, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.15%was trading around the 16,000 level, Yves Lamoureux, president of macroeconomic research firm Lamoureux & Co., said the blue-chip index would topple 25,000 within three or four years. It didn’t take that long. Now, with the Dow clinging to a 500-point cushion above that milestone, Lamoureux is standing firmly behind another bullish call: Dow 40,000. Oh, but there’s a catch... Read More |
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10.11.18- The Human Drive for Inequality
After the invention of the telephone in the mid- to late-1800s, innovators produced great accomplishments as they strived to improve the technology to. Read More |
At the Foundation for Economic Education Conference (FEECON) in 2017, I met Bill Frezza. He’s been teaching a critical lesson about equality, learned from the horrors of the AT&T telephone monopoly. What follows, I mostly learned from him. |
10.10.18- The Cracks In The Market’s Floor Grow Wider
The yield on the 10-yr Treasury has broken out, hitting its highest level since July 2011: By the end of June 2011, the Fed had only reached its half-way mark in money printing. It was shortly thereafter that the Fed had implemented its “operation twist.” Operation twist consisted of selling the Fed’s short term holdings and using the proceeds plus extra printed money to buy Treasuries at the long-end of the curve – primarily 10-yr bonds. Read More |
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10.09.18- The Biggest Threat to US National Security Is the US Government
Jonathan H. Adler, Professor at Case Western University School of Law, noted, regarding George W. Bush’s secret policy for the NSA to access everyone’s phone-records, that “The metadata collection program is constitutional (at least according to Judge Kavanaugh),” and he presented Judge Kavanaugh’s entire published opinion on that. Kavanaugh’s opinion stated that the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution could be shoved aside because he thinks that the ‘national security’ of the United States is more important than the Constitution. Kavanaugh wrote: Read More |
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10.08.18- With corruption like this, it’s no wonder so many pension funds are insolvent
Vicki Fuller, the former head of New York’s $209 billion fund, now earns $275,000 per year working part time for a natural gas group called The Williams Companies– good work if you can get it. It’s noteworthy that when Ms. Fuller ran her state pension fund, she invested $110 million of taxpayer money to buy bonds issued by none other than The Williams Companies. Bear in mind that Moody’s, the credit rating agency, downgraded Williams’ financial outlook to “negative” because of the company’s high leverage and risk. Read More |
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10.07.18- Ask yourself: Why are there no prescription medications
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The reason there are no prescription medications available today where the side effects aren’t worse than the ailment being treated is because Big Pharma will not treat or heal anything without creating several new issues that keep their “customers for life” coming back for more. Most Americans do not want to stop eating junk food, fast food, corporate franchise restaurant food, microwaveable food, prepared food bar “stuff,” and “diet” food that’s mostly chock full of synthetic sweeteners, GMOs and MSG.  |
10.06.18- Weekend Rant: Think You're Prepared For The Next Crisis? Think Again.
Scottish poet Robert Burns aptly penned the famous phrase: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang aft a-gley.” (commonly adapted as "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.") Read More |
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10.05.18- The World Is Quietly Decoupling From the U.S. – And No One Is Paying Attention
This delusion has also recently bled into parts of the alternative economic movement, with some analysts hoping that the Trump Administration will somehow reverse several decades of central bank sabotage in only four to eight years. However, this thinking requires a person to completely ignore the prevailing trend. Read More |
Blind faith in the U.S. dollar is perhaps one of the most crippling disabilities economists have in gauging our economic future. Historically speaking, fiat currencies are essentially animals with very short lives, and world reserve currencies are even more prone to an early death. But, for some reason, the notion that the dollar is vulnerable at all to the same fate is deemed ridiculous by the mainstream. |
10.04.18- The Tyranny of the U.S. Dollar
There’s a paradox at the heart of global finance. The U.S. share of the world economy has drifted lower for decades, and now President Trump is retreating from the American chief executive’s traditional role as Leader of the Free World. Yet the U.S. dollar remains, as the saying goes, almighty. “American exceptionalism has never been this stark,” Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets and chief global strategist for Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said at a Council on Foreign Relations symposium on Sept. 24. Read More |
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10.03.18- How America Can
Wall Street banks triggered a credit crisis in 2008-09 that wiped out over $19 trillion in household wealth, turned some 10 million families out of their homes and cost almost 9 million jobs in the U.S. alone. Yet the banks were bailed out without penalty, while defrauded home buyers were left without recourse or compensation. Read More |
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10.02.18- Imaginary Monsters
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10.01.18- Empire of Lies: Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
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09.29.18- Gold Investors:
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09.28.18- Investors Have Fallen Into a False Sense of Security
Then markets were turned upside down in a matter of days. Major stock market indexes fell over 11%, a technical correction, from Feb. 2–8, 2018, just five trading days. The CBOE Volatility Index, commonly known as the “VIX,” surged from 14.51 to 49.21 in an even shorter period from Feb. 2–6. Read More |
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09.27.18- The Real Reason the Government Won’t Hold Big Tech Accountable
The government is coming to regulate them. Someone leaked a draft of an executive order from President Trump. It calls on various agencies to use all current laws to look into possible anticompetitive practices by Facebook and Google. In fact, the EU already fined Google $5 billion in July for “abusing the market dominance of Android.” And now they’ve set their sights on how Amazon uses customer and seller data. Read More |
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09.26.18- Insider Selling Soars: Fastest Pace Of September Sales In Past Decade
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09.25.18- TECH ALERT:
And along with it went the recording studio which a famous rock band had booked for a free session the next day. The members of the band watched in horror as the flames leapt into the night sky. It was 1971 and the fire in the sky and the smoke that hung over the waters of a nearby lake would soon inspire the band’s most famous song. As some of you might have already guessed, the band was Deep Purple and the song was Smoke on the Water. Read More |
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09.24.18- These Three Items Will Be Hit The Hardest Thanks To Trump’s Tariffs
By now, hopefully, Americans have put two and two together and figured out that it isn’t the Chinese government that will pay for Trump’s tariffs, but the Chinese consumer. Much like the American government will not pay for China’s tariffs, it will be the American consumer. Those costs are passed on directly to the public in the form of higher cost of goods. Read More |
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09.22.18- "The News Just Ain't The News No More"
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09.21.18- There’s a New Crash Coming
Donald Trump is the epitome of irrational exuberance. You might remember that phrase from the 1990s. Alan Greenspan, the head of the Federal Reserve at the time, was describing how the tech boom was creating a bubble by generating enthusiasm way out of proportion to the actual value of the new companies. Read More |
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09.20.18- The Donald in Wonderland
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went from being dubbed America’s most innovative company by Fortune Magazine to being the poster child of American corporate deceit. Using a classic recipe for book-cooking, Enron ended up in bankruptcy with jail time for those involved. Its shareholders lost $74 billionin the four years leading up to its bankruptcy in 2001. A decade ago, the flameout of my former employer, Lehman Brothers, the global financial firm, proved far more devastating, contributing as it did to a series of events that ignited a global financial meltdown. Americans lost an estimated $12.8 trillion in the havoc. Read More |
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09.19.18- Leave Home
The simple (and tragic) answer to this question is that there is no such solution. The two objectives are mutually exclusive. Throughout the ages, whenever an empire has begun its inevitable collapse, no country has ever woken up and reversed the process. In every case, the government rides the decline to the bottom. And, along the way, a series of policies is invariably undertaken to save those in government in the downward rush. These policies are always at the expense of the populace. Read More |
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09.18.18- “Lehman - Ten Years Later”
2008 had already had more than its share of financial turmoil. In the months leading up to 9/15/2008, Bear Stearns, Fannie/Freddie, and AIG had already had major blowouts. The stock markets were very itchy and everyone was on edge. Most who worked in the industry knew it was just a matter of time until something much more systemic took place. Up until this time, the contagion had been mostly limited to the US, with some minor external collateral damage. We were both heavily involved in the financial/economic landscape at this time. Andy was running his investment advisory and economic consultancy firm and Graham was a strategy analyst for a major G7 central bank. We had already both come to independent conclusions that this was going to be a long emergency as coined by James Kunstler. This was not going to be a 3 or 6-month event and then it would be roses and cherries and cream for the whole world. Read More |
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09.17.18- What Keeps Them Up at Night
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09.15.18- California’s War on the U.S. Dollar
Californians have historically been on the cutting edge of social and political change. Whether it was protesting the Vietnam War or advocating for free speech or civil rights, California has always been among the first states to get involved. And it’s on the front lines once again. Its opponent: the federal government. Read More |
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09.14.18- America’s False History
Griffin’s book is a humdinger and will certainly upset brainwashed American super-patriots, but it throughly documents how Washington’s aggression toward other lands is covered up by politicians, media, and court historians with moral verbiage. In my view the hubris, arrogance, and ignorance of “American exceptionism” has the world locked on a trajectory to its extinction in nuclear Armageddon. Read More |
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09.13.18- Pandemic scare brewing
The pandemic scare comes as the execution of U.S. Senator John McCain sent shock waves through Khazarian mafia ranks, who are now activating all their resources in a desperate move to save themselves. Thus, this pandemic scare may be something like a schoolboy calling in a bomb threat to his school in order to avoid an exam. Read More |
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09.12.18- The World Is Ganging up Against the Dollar
As the U.S. wields the dollar weapon more frequently, the rest of the world works harder to shun the dollar completely. I’ve been warning for years about efforts of nations like Russia and China to escape what they call “dollar hegemony” and create a new financial system that does not depend on the dollar and helps them get out from under dollar-based economic sanctions. Read More |
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09.11.18- How to Purge the Rot
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09.10.18- Why Most Investors Fail to Beat
For one thing, we don’t own “the market” – which, in these contexts, usually means the S&P 500 Index. We own individual stocks. As I always like to remind people, the ups and downs of those stocks can be very different from those of “the market.” For example, here are the 10 best-performing S&P 500 stocks for the first half of the year: Read More |
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09.08.18- The pension crisis is bigger than the world’s 20 largest economies
As you probably know, pensions are giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers. And right now many pension funds around the world simply don’t have enough assets to cover the retirement obligations they owe to millions of workers. In the US alone, federal, state, and local governments, pensions are about $7 TRILLION short of the funding they need to pay out all the benefits they’ve promised. Read More |
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09.07.18- The 10 most important lessons in finance from a legend in the field
Jim is the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer – one of the most-respected and followed financial publications in the world. In his 35 years writing Grant’s, Jim has seen a financial cycle or two. And he’s amassed a network of many of the most important people on Wall Street (who often share their insights in his publication). Read More |
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09.06.18- Amazon is Far More Dangerous and Powerful Than You Want to Admit
– From my November 15, 2017 post: Amazon Poses a Serious Threat to Freedom and Free Markets Read More |
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09.05.18- How People Become
This is a very complex issue, but I’ll break it down as best as I’m able… The Psychology Of The Tyrant Read More |
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09.04.18- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Terrifying Paintings by ArtificiaI Intelligence
And its one hell of a mutilated abortion. Words that spring to mind: monstrous, from hell, distorted, terrifying, soulless… Its like self-portraits of a family of aristocrats if they were each and every one of them a soul-sucking demon. If this is what Artificial Intelligence has to offer in terms of art, if these images are the seeds of that future, count me out. A French art collective, selling these little monsters at Christie’s for beaucoup bucks, fine.Read More |
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09.03.18- Progressives: The Real World vs. Neverland
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09.01.18- Forget who takes the mid-terms: Here’s how to personally repeal Obamacare
Back in 2010, Congress and President Obama completely overhauled the US healthcare system with the “Affordable” Care Act (aka Obamacare). Their intention was to provide all US citizens with access to healthcare. But, the result of government interference in markets was – surprise – rising costs and lower quality service. Read More |
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08.31.18- Economic Doom Returns: Emerging Market Currencies Collapse To Record Lows As Global Financial Chaos Accelerates
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08.30.18- Making It in the United States: The Harsh Realities Americans Face
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08.29.18- Evade Market Weakness in the Summer by Shifting Your Perspective
In the last issue of Seasonal Insights we have talked to you about biotech and pharmaceutical companies as industries that withstand the traditional summer weakness in stock markets. Six weeks ago, we have shown that gold is an asset one can purchase in the summer months to offset this phenomenon. Warning: don’t let the media mesmerize you in the summer months – the stocks of media companies are a veritable seasonal minefield in August to October. Read More |
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08.28.18- How the Socialism of Imperial Rome Ushered in Feudalism
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08.27.18- Most Americans Don’t Understand This Problem… Here’s Why You Should
Though he was wealthy and didn’t need to, he said he liked the work because it reminded him that no matter how rich you are, you’re never too good to get your hands dirty. He also liked gardening because it was a metaphor for how he saw the world. Read More |
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08.25.18- Weekend Rant: Services Rendered
The diner understands that he’s not obligated to order anything that he doesn’t want to receive, but that, for whatever he does order, he must pay the price on the menu. The subtotal is printed in large type on the charge slip. He may then decide whether or not the service he received was of particular value to him. Diners typically choose to pay somewhere between 10% and 20%, depending on the value they feel they’ve received. Read More |
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08.24.18- Why Do People Assign Value
Following the view of Plato and Aristotle, economists regard the acceptance of money as an historical fact introduced by the government decree.1 It is government decree, so it is argued, that makes a particular thing accepted as the general medium of the exchange, i.e., money. Read More |
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08.23.18- Why You Should Forget School and Let Kids Play
Seriously, it took the American Academy of Pediatrics to let us know that? Better yet, the doctors now recommend that parents even get involved in playing with their children, especially before they turn two. “This may seem old-fashioned, but there are skills to be learned when kids aren’t told what to do,” said Dr. Michael Yogman, a Harvard Medical School pediatrician who led the drafting of the call to arms. Whether it’s rough-and-tumble physical play, outdoor play or social or pretend play, kids derive important lessons from the chance to make things up as they go, he said. Read More |
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08.22.18- Most People Struggle Financially Because They Don’t Know This…
Yet we hear countless stories about the multi-million dollar athlete who is homeless 10 years later. Or the guy who won the lottery only to soon find himself penniless. It’s not how much money you make. But how much money you keep. I cringe whenever I hear people ask me how to get rich quicker, or where they should start. I often hear, “I need to make more money.” I hate hearing any of that, because more money will often not solve the problem. Read More |
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08.21.18- How to Protect Your Money from Financial Warfare
I would put Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and a few others at the top of the list. Russia and China at the top of the list but Iran certainly has good cyber-warfare capability. They’re employing what they call Cyber Brigades that spend all their time basically hacking into the critical infrastructure systems I described above. It’s a good bet that all of these systems have already been penetrated. Read More |
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08.20.18- The Telltale Signs of Imperial Decline
Check which signs of Imperial decline you see around you: The hubris of an increasingly incestuous and out-of-touch leadership; dismaying extremes of wealth inequality; self-serving, avaricious Elites; rising dependency of the lower classes on free Bread and Circuses provided by a government careening toward insolvency due to stagnating tax revenues and vast over-reach--let's stop there to catch our breath. Check, check, check and check. Sir John Glubb listed a few others in his seminal essay on the end of empiresThe Fate of Empires, what might be called the dynamics of decadence: Read More |
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08.18.18- The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term
This is not to say that it does not have a purpose, because undoubtedly it does. This cannot and will not be denied, except by those who identify themselves as having anarchist traits. Yet, it is still a farce. It is corrupt, it is short-sighted and it is riddled with problems. But in our “semi” capitalistic system, it is what we have. And we have to make the best of it. Read More |
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08.17.18- Turkey: A Glimpse of America’s Future
This week, we began looking at Turkey, but only because Donald Trump sent an extraordinary tweet last Friday. In it, the president broke with tradition and common sense in a remarkable way. He used a crash in the Turkish lira to justify a new attack in the trade war. Instead of soothing words that might have calmed the crisis situation, his tweet made it worse. And instead of coming to the aid of an ally in difficulty, he piled on. Read More |
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08.16.18- A traditional plant native to Thailand effectively manages obesity,
For the study, researchers from Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand derived the extract of broken bones from the fruit pods of the plant. They looked at the effects of broken bones plant extract on the adipogenic and biomolecular change in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. They used the cell line 3T3-L1 to establish the potential toxic effects of broken bones plantextract during adipogenesis, the differentiation of pre-adipocytes into adipocytes. Read More |
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08.15.18- Generation Z: The Intolerant Ones
Generation Z is racially diverse, increasingly secular, and very much online. Non-Hispanic whites make up just over half of this cohort, compared with 72 percent of Baby Boomers. In religious terms, 13 percent of Generation Z identifies as atheist, compared with only 7 percent of millennials. Read More |
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08.14.18- The Law As Weapon
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08.13.18- Pater Familias
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08.11.18- Experts Warn That The “Scariest” Stock Market Signals Are Flashing Red
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08.19.18- This Time Is Different — No, Really
The wise man remembers. The fool forgets. The wise man listens. The fool talks. He ignores both the living and the dead… the immemorial dead, whose whispers carry the distilled wisdom of history. No — this time is different, comes the fool’s eternal cry. Read More |
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08.09.18- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Students Say 'Young Democratic Socialists Of America' Not Socialist Enough
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08.08.18- Even Lefties Get it… Today’s Housing Bubble About To Burst
We are too some of those 3.5 million views. Of course not many of us also enjoyed that same day’s obvious record high volume, $100 gold market intervention swing. But we digress, to the reflated, now larger housing bubble ongoing. Unlike the previous housing bubble of yore (the 2007 version). These now humbled, left ideologues can see the writing on the wall. Read More |
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08.07.18- Welcome to Bad Faith
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08.06.18- Here's Why 3D-Printing Guns Are A Win For World Peace AndA Potential
For generations, advocates of private gun ownership have been fighting exhaustively through political channels to protect their right to keep and bear arms. Gun owners even have one of the strongest lobby groups in Washington, the highly disappointing NRA. Yet over the years, gun rights continue to diminish in America, despite the constant political campaigns by the NRA and politicians that claim to support gun rights. Read More |
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08.04.18- Here’s What the “Doom Index” Is Telling Us Now…
Regular Diary readers will remember that the Doom Index is made up of 11 key indicators. These indicators track the health of both the Main Street and Wall Street economies. [For a full review of the Doom Index, go here.] After reviewing all the data from Q2, here are the results… For the second quarter of this year – from the start of April through the end of June – the Doom Index level is at 6. That’s down from 7, where the Doom Index ranked for Q1. Read More |
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08.03.18- Conservatives Banned From Social Media? Here's What They Can Do About It
However, in the wake of the social justice cult frenzy some companies have decided that ideology is more important than profit, and most of these companies are deeply involved in various forms of media. Read More |
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08.02.18- FALSE FLAG WARNING: ‘Perfect Storm’
(Natural News) Today I’ve posted an urgent warning video, which you can see in full, below. This video — which would have been banned by YouTube and Facebook — is available exclusively on REAL.video.Read More |
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08.01.18- COURT DOCS: SPLC Co-Founder Accused of Trying to Molest Step-Daughter With Sex Toy
It has now been exposed that the organization is awash in pedophilia. George Clooney and his wife recently contributed $1,000,000 the the SPLC. Please take note of the number of Ashkenazi Jews that control the organization. The SPLC is an enemy of the Republic. - JSB The SPLC is known for doling out bogus “hate group” labels. Read More |
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07.31.18- An Illustrated Glossary of |
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07.30.18- Why Americans Are About To Experience Sharply Higher Prices
It appears that the "short-term" part has now arrived, because after several rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs and retaliations between the US and China, American consumers are about to be hit with sharply higher prices as tariffs on industrial metals put pressure on U.S. manufacturers. Read More |
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07.28.18- The Treasonous Democratic Party
In this one TV broadcast - Carlson shows that the Democrats have gone far beyond “lying through their teeth political partisanship” into deranged hatred of President Trump and the American people who elected him. The Democrats’ insane hatred of “Trump deplorables” has firmly allied the Democrats with the corrupt military/security complex in a plot to overthrow the elected President of the United States. Carlson presents the former heads of US intelligence in the corrupt Obama regime accusing President Trump of treason against the United States for trying to normalize relations with Russia and endangering the United States for trying to make peace. Read More |
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07.27.18- Valuing Gold In A World
In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis. That is going to happen anyway, triggered by the Fed or even a foreign central bank. In the very short term, a tendency to moderate monetary policy might allow the gold price to recover from its recent battering. Unlike the last credit crisis when the dollar rose sharply in a general panic for safety, on the next crisis, the dollar is likely to fall substantially. The reason is that foreign ownership of dollar investments (typically in US Treasuries) appears greatly overextended, and an additional $4 trillion of liquidity is in the wrong (non-US) hands. This is likely to be unloaded during a general credit crisis, driving the dollar lower. Read More |
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07.26.18- Get Ready for the “100-Year Flood”
From the Black Death in the 14th century to the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century to the world wars of the 20th century, gold has been a reliable store of wealth. There is no reason to believe that such existential events are no longer a danger. Read More |
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07.25.18- The Lonely Road of the Free Thinker
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07.24.17- The Imperial Naivete of the American Public
Whether it's stated or not, one source of the inchoate outrage triggered by Russian-sourced purchases of adverts on Facebook in 2016 (i.e. "meddling in our election") is the sense that the U.S. is sacrosanct due to our innate moral goodness and our Imperial Project: never mind that the intelligence agencies of all great powers (including the U.S.) meddle in the domestic affairs and elections of other nations, including those of allies as well as geopolitical rivals-- no other great power should ever meddle with U.S. domestic affairs and elections. Read More |
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07.23.18- What Happened To Our Country? These Are Not Our Values, This Isn’t Who We Are
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07.21.18- Four Obvious Areas for
That was the slogan used by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and it propelled him to the most powerful and coveted job in the world – commander in chief of the United States. However, since Trump’s inauguration there has been much blustering and many unpopular policies that don’t seem to have been made with the promise of making America great again. While the United States makes worldwide news for the President’s tweets, other countries are implementing changes that are benefitting their citizens and helping to change the world positively. Read More |
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07.20.18- Russiagate Is Constructed of Pure Bullshit, No Facts
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07.19.18- What the Origins of Money Teaches Us About Spontaneous Order
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07.18.18- Our Rules of the Game: US Constitution
It’s indeed a “dark moment” for those who’ve for decades used the courts to accomplish what would have been impossible through federal and state legislatures — such as same-sex marriage, abortion and preferences with regard to race and sex. Read More |
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07.17.18- The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The U.S. Economy
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07.16.18- Complete Idiocy Engulfs The U.S.
The first time I watched this I thought it was a joke – product of National Lampoon. Then the reality of it hit me like a ton of bricks. Is this really a productive use of Congressional time? The entire U.S. system is hurling toward a debt-induced financial and economic apocalypse. At the same time the Deep State, using Trump as its hand-puppet, is alienating the U.S. from the EU/NATO, this country’s last remaining allies. Read More |
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07.14.18- Hope and Change Are At Hand
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07.13.19- Public Pensions:
They've promised full pensions to their workers. But they aren't putting aside enough money — or generating high enough returns — to fulfill those future obligations. Soon, they'll have to cannibalize current workers' pension contributions to pay retirees. Young and middle-aged government employees will likely never receive the retirement benefits they're counting on. It's too late to prevent this crisis. But there's still time to mitigate the financial fallout — by trimming benefits, raising contributions, and transitioning younger employees to 401(k)s and other defined-contribution plans. Read More |
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07.12.18- The Uncivil Civil War: Economic and Market Implications of Political Transformation
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07.11.18- Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning For The Economy
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07.10.18- America Is Now A 3rd World Nation
Dividing the Earth's nations into 1st, 2nd and 3rd world has fallen out of favor;apparently it offended sensibilities. It has been replaced by the politically correct developed and developing nations, a terminology which suggests all developing nations are on the pathway to developed-nation status. What's been lost in jettisoning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd world categories is the distinction between developing (2nd world) and dysfunctional states (3rd world), states we now label "failed states." Read More |
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07.09.18- Survival of the Richest
I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig. Read More |
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07.07.18- Summer of Tough Love
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07.06.18- Here’s a great example of a company using Blockchain to solve a real problem
I thought this would be important given that most of the noise in the crypto space these days is still almost invariably focused on the Bitcoin price. A quick Google search for “Bitcoin” reveals headlines from CNBC to Fortune Magazine, all about whether or not Bitcoin can come out of its price slump: Read More |
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07.05.18- Would the Founding Fathers Recognize Modern America?
Time and growth produce changes in institutions, too. Sometimes, they merely get bigger and older. Sometimes, they go through a metamorphosis and change into something very different. Read More |
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07.04.18- Economic Collapse 101: Food Americans Ate To Stay Alive During The Great Depression
(Natural News) The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and continued until about 1939. It affected North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world. It was the most serious economic tragedy ever experienced by the industrialized Western world in modern history. Read More |
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07.03.18- A Turn for the Worse
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07.02.18- How to Create Your Own Personal Gold Standard and Currency Reserve
And only for the last 47 years has the world largely moved away from the gold standard. It is easy to feel like we are on top of the world in 2018. Technology has never been better or more easily accessible. The standard of living is rapidly rising. But does that mean we should dispense with 5,000 years of monetary policy which led us to where we are today?
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06.30.18- Libertarian? Conservative? Classic Liberal? Leftivists don’t just believe you’re a bad person - they WANT to believe it
I’m not a social media person, but a few days ago, I posted my very first comment on Instagram, in response to a woman whose site I had read for years. Enraged by the border story, she had just posted an Instagram ordering those who didn’t see the world her way to take a hike. Read More |
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06.29.18- How to Survive the Civil Unrest That’s Coming to America
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06.28.18- Media Creates Caricatures of Political Parties. And People Believe Them!
Or at least, we hate what we think the other team stands for. A poll asked Democrats and Republicans to estimate statistics about the other party. The answers we pure caricatures. Read More |
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06.27.18- The Danger Is Real: We Need a New Declaration of Independence for Modern Times
Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.Read More |
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06.26.18- Things Just Went Nuclear In Our Trade War With China, And A Giant Shockwave Is About To Hit The U.S. Economy
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06.25.18- The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance
Let us begin with the family separation issue. The separation of children from immigrant/refugee/asylum parents has caused such public outcry that President Trump has backed off his policy and signed an executive order terminating family separation. The horror of children locked up in warehouses operated by private businesses making a profit off of US taxpayers, while parents are prosecuted for illegal entry, woke even self-satisfied “exceptional and indispensable” Americans out of their stupor. Read More |
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06.23.18- Social Security benefits buy 34 percent less than in 2000, study shows
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06.22.18- The Dumbing Down of America Is Deliberate and Deadly
Is America getting dumber? Is this presumption even measurable? The answer to both questions is an unqualified yes! Read More |
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06.21.18- I Remember When America Was A Free Country
Your flight ticket was good at any airline. If something happened to your flight or you missed it, you could use the ticket on another airline going to the same place. On international flights you were permitted two free stopovers prior to your destination. Read More |
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06.20.18- John McAfee Says He's No Longer Pitching ICOs "Due To SEC Threats"
McAfee, who hasn't been affiliated with his namesake company since 1994 and lost most of a fortune once worth $100 million in the years since the crisis, was at one point pitching a new ICO every day. And since before last year's boom, McAfee has been a regular on the cryptocurrency conference circuit and is part of what Bloomberg calls "a vast network of social media influences" who have helped ICOs raise billions. Read More |
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06.19.18- A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
~ King Louis XV of France A hard rain's a-gonna fall ~ Bob Dylan (the first) As the Federal Reserve kicked off its second round of quantitative easing in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, hedge fund manager David Tepper predicted that nearly all assets would rise tremendously in response. "The Fed just announced: We want economic growth, and we don't care if there's inflation... have they ever said that before?" Read More |
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06.18.18- Americans Need Plain Sight: The IG Report Hides the Truth
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06.16.18- Seven Huge Mistakes Real Estate Investors Make When Running Their Numbers
You can predict the returns! Having said that, your ROI forecasts are only as good as the numbers you start with. Here are the seven of the most common mistakes real estate investors make when running their numbers — and how to avoid them for a perfect win record in your investing. We’ll start with numbers that affect all real estate investors, then narrow our focus to rental investors and cash-flow forecasting. Read More |
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06.15.18- Currencies – Truth and Confidence
Restate this for global currencies and it becomes:
WHAT LIES? There have been many. Examples specific to the United States: Read More |
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06.14.18- Clock is Now “3 Minutes to Midnight” on Social Security and Medicare Benefits
In it, the financial data indicates that both Medicare and Social Security could start “riding off into the sunset” sometime within the next two decades. This is mainly due to the addition of millions of retirees aged 65 and older and reducing the average number of taxpayers that support each retiree on Medicare and Social Security. Read More |
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06.13.18- The most successful investor in modern history is selling… here’s what it means for you
Yes, drywall… as in, the building material that’s used for interior construction. Drywall, also known as wallboard, is manufactured from rehydrated gypsum to produce a calcium sulfate plaster, that’s later mixed with mildew-resistant foaming agent. . . hello? Are you still there? Seriously, though, in this particular case, drywall is a big deal. Read More |
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06.12.18- Last Exit to the Road Less Traveled
What’s important to keep in mind in this quote from Rachael Carson’s 56-year-old warning shot over the bow of corporate civilization is that there are two roads being traveled now. We are no longer at a fork. Read More |
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06.11.18- The Clock Is Ticking: "Modern Slaves Are Not In Chains, They're In Debt"
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt. - Dave Ramsey Modern slaves are not in chains, they are in debt. - Anonymous Read More |
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Feeling Isolated?
If you answered "no" to these questions, you're not an outlier. In fact, the #1 most commonly-reported complaint we hear from Peak Prosperity readers is that they feel alone and isolated when it comes to the warnings delivered in The Crash Course. Read More |
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06.08.18- Are You The Fish?
The basic idea here is that you need to know your opponents. You need to understand their strengths and weaknesses. You need to know what type of edge you have over them. Read More |
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06.07.18- Cognitive Dissonance Will Not Save America From the Collapse of the Dollar
The Inevitable End I recently received that dreaded call “rush to the hospital, she only has a short time left, hurry!” So, you arrive at the hospital and the person hangs on, and hangs on, but everyone knows the final outcome is inevitable. The next day arrives and the person is still with us. Read More |
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06.06.18- When They Shall Say “Peace And Safety”: Polls Show Americans Are The Most Optimistic They Have Been In A Very Long Time
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06.05.18- Ten Ways the Democratic Northern Hemisphere Nations Became the Orwellian West
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In his book, “1984”, George Orwell envisioned a future crushed by the iron grip of a collectivist oligarchy. The narrative told of the INGSOC Party which maintained power through a system of surveillance and brutality designed to monitor and control every aspect of society. From the time of the book’s release in 1949, any ensuing vision of a dark dystopia depicting variations of jackboots stomping on human faces, forever, has been referenced as being “Orwellian”. This is because Orwell’s narrative illustrated various disturbing and unjust conceptualizations of control, crime, and punishment.  |
06.04.18- “Teen Culture” is the New Imperialism, and it is Destroying the World  You know how missionaries used to run around the globe forcing everyone to be a Christian? And in the process, they destroyed native cultures and traditions?
Well, the same thing is happening today with Western “teen culture.” It is being exported around the world with disastrous effects. Preindustrial societies mostly exhibit a continuum from childhood to adulthood. There is generally no random cut off age where suddenly teens are given rights and expected to become adults. Children seamlessly and gradually integrate into adulthood, with puberty rites being the only major benchmark. Read More |
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06.02.18- Calling All Broke Millennials: Vermont Will Give You $10,000 To Move There And Work From Home  The Governor of Vermont has introduced an unusual law that will pay people who move into the state and work remotely for an out-of-state company - $10,000 over a two year period to cover relocation costs, office equipment, internet, and other work-related expenses.
Governor Phil Scott approved the legislation on Wednesday (May 30) in hopes to bottom out the rapidly shrinking tax base, and, of course, sucker in those heavily indebted millennials from large cities. Read More |
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06.01.18- ‘Three Wise Men’ Warn Crash Coming, Own Gold The men who have recently warned are Jim Rogers (video below), Martin Armstrong (blog below) and Tony Robbins (video below). Each come from somewhat different backgrounds and are respected experts in their respective fields. Each has different views in terms of asset allocation and how best to weather the coming financial storm but all are united in believing that gold will act as a wealth preservation tool and will likely rise in value when other assets fall.Read More |
‘Three wise men’ are warning that the next financial crash is coming and that one of the ways to protect and grow wealth in the coming crash will be to own gold.Copyright© 1996-2018
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