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Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives A friend of mine quipped that it is one thing to talk about the end of modernism—as the two of us have been doing for over 25 years—and quite another to live through it. It might seem that such notions are far too abstract […]
Reinterpreting History – The Modern Version of Book Burning?
Reinterpreting History – The Modern Version of Book Burning? They are going to remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt, who ironically was a socialist, as they claim the statue is now racist because it portrays an American Indian and a black African. Teddy Roosevelt was certainly not a slave owner. The statue reflected the two […]
Can Too Big For Fed & ECB
CAN TOO BIG FOR FED & ECB There are lies, damned lies, and economists. Whether these economists work for the government or a bank, they spend all their time on the computer extrapolating current trends with minor adjustments. If you want to understand the future, don’t spend your life preparing and constantly revising an Excel […]
History Tells Us to Own Gold When Central Banks Run Out of Control
HISTORY TELLS US TO OWN GOLD WHEN CENTRAL BANKS RUN OUT OF CONTROL “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” happen with regular intervals as Charles Mackay wrote about. It seems that the world experiences more delusions and madness than truth and sanity. The pattern is always the same. The economy is never in […]
Gold: A Modern Investment Framework For An Ancient Asset
Gold: A Modern Investment Framework For An Ancient Asset Gold no longer serves as an official money in the modern financial system, yet it is still considered an important asset due to its established diversification and store of value properties. But what framework(s) should we use to understand the role that gold should play in […]
FK: What the CIA Hides
JFK: What the CIA Hides When I launched JFK Facts, a blog about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in 2012, I was often asked by strangers, “So who killed JFK?” “I don’t know,” I shrugged. “It’s too early to tell.” Given that the handsome liberal president had been shot dead a half-century before, my answer was a […]
There Is No Normal
There Is No Normal The wheel of time rolls forward, never retracing its path, but because it is a wheel, and we are riding in it, a persistent illusion persuades us that the landscape is recognizably the same, and that our doings within the regular turning of the seasons seem comfortably normal. There is no […]
The History Of The World, In One Video
The History Of The World, In One Video Throughout the history of the world, many civilizations have risen and fallen. You may be familiar with the achievements of prominent societies like the Romans, Mongols, or Babylonians, but, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins explains below, how do all of their stories intertwine over time and geography? Visualizing the History […]
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, […]
The Long View
The Long View For more than three years now, the themes of these online essays of mine—here, and in my previous blog The Archdruid Report—have had a relatively tight focus on the events of the present day. That hasn’t been accidental by any means. In 2016, strains that had been building for years within Western industrial […]
There Are No Coincidences – Why History Repeats
There Are No Coincidences – Why History Repeats QUESTION: Martin Today is Palm Sunday. In mass, they said HE colluded with the Galilean’s. HE was found innocent by the Council. They said HE was a tax evader. HE was found innocent by new leadership. HE correctly predicted that HE would be denied by his own party […]
