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‘Modern Monetary Theory’ Is a Joke That’s Not Funny
‘Modern Monetary Theory’ Is a Joke That’s Not Funny Yes, a government that issues its own currency can pay its bills. But piling up debt for no urgent reason is lunacy. There’s a theory behind it. Photographer: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images If you follow the debates over U.S. economic policy, you had probably heard of […]
Norway to Track Cars GPS to Tax Per KM (Mile) – Your Govt is Next
Norway to Track Cars GPS to Tax Per KM (Mile) – Your Govt is Next COMMENT: Hi, The Norwegian Data Protection Authority is now arguing that GPS based taxation, for the amount of kilometers driven by car, can be done within 5-6 years! Norwegians trust the government way too much, because they believe that this […]
Why Silver & Barter Could Become the Alternative to Cryptocurrency
Why Silver & Barter Could Become the Alternative to Cryptocurrency QUESTION: RE: ….& Coming Barter System. So, are you suggesting that we may see a shift to Silver by private individuals as the only way to sidestep Government stupidity, or will it be even worse, like trading whiskey for toilet paper?? TWE ANSWER: Assuming government attempts […]
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative”
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative” Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
Secret Money for Private Armies – Catherine Austin Fitts
Secret Money for Private Armies – Catherine Austin Fitts Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts says it looks like a “global recession is coming.” Is that going to cause the debt reset we’ve been hearing about for years? Fitts says, “Make no mistake about it, there is no reason for […]
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore
The Yellow Vests Get it Right, by Robert Gore Financial nuclear warheads. The mainstream media has degenerated irreparably. Here’s a reliable rule of thumb: if it’s important it’s not covered; if it’s covered it’s not important. Stories in the American mainstream press about Yellow Vest protests have been few. One aspect of the protests, transcendently important, […]
Macron – No taxation without representation
Macron – No taxation without representation The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown […]
Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future
Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future What is money, where does it come from and more importantly where does it go? At first glance, it might appear inexplicable and bizarre that our governments and our rulers have managed to keep their stronghold over the monetary system for 2000 years, especially when one thinks about […]
Money is no Object
Money is no Object Chances are, most of what you’ve learned about taxes and the economy is wrong. In fact, the key principles at work in our economic system are very different from what we’re taught. If you find you’re one of those who’s been misled, it’s not your fault. A system such as ours […]
The Tragedy Of The Euro
The Tragedy Of The Euro After two decades, the euro’s minders look set to drive the Eurozone into deep trouble. December was the last month of the ECB’s monthly purchases of government debt. A softening global economy will increase government deficits unexpectedly. The consequence will be a new cycle of sharply rising bond yields for […]
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional “For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. […]
A Libertarian’s Lament On The Government Behemoth
A Libertarian’s Lament On The Government Behemoth As it turns out, we don’t really need the government to take care of us. If it were not for the government, who would build the roads? Who would educate the children? Who would keep the parks clean? These questions usually are posed by progressives who think they […]
#ShutdownStories: Americans Become Intimately Familiar with U.S. Government Form of Repression
#ShutdownStories: Americans Become Intimately Familiar with U.S. Government Form of Repression As the #shutdownstories pour in, a different picture of America emerges than the one commonly seen in the TV news. This America lives paycheck to paycheck, worries about how to juggle debt and bills, and feels a deep insecurity about their well-being. Many of […]
Predators and Saprophytes
Predators and Saprophytes They’re not your protectors if they’re eating you. Bruno walks into a neighborhood shop and threatens the shopkeeper with unspecified “bad things” if the shopkeeper doesn’t fork over $200 a week. The shopkeeper pays. If Bruno runs a “legitimate” protection racket, bad things don’t happen. You can skip a class, indeed an […]
