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That Collapse You Ordered…?
That Collapse You Ordered…? I had a fellow on my latest podcast, released Sunday, who insists that the world population will crash 90-plus percent from the current 7.6 billion to 600 million by the end of this century. Jack Alpert heads an outfit called the Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab (SKIL) which he started at Stanford University in […]
What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away?
What If All the Cheap Stuff Goes Away? Nothing stays the same in dynamic systems, and it’s inevitable that the current glut of low costs / cheap stuff will give way to scarcities that cannot be filled at current low prices. One of the books I just finished reading is The Fate of Rome: Climate, […]
How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America
How Societies Collapse: Or, The Eerie Parallels Between Rome, Nazi Germany, and America A little reflection occurs to me every time I write about American collapse. Societies collapse in much the same way — there is something like a universal way of collapse. Yet the whole problem begins with the fact that human beings, having needy egos, find their […]
A Roman Lesson on Inflation
A ROMAN LESSON ON INFLATION “While it is the duty of the citizen to support the state, it is not the duty of the state to support the citizen” – President Grover Cleveland The point President Cleveland made back in the 1880s was that individuals and vested interests had no rights to preferential treatment by a […]
Meet the Italian government’s Orwellian new automated tax snitch
Meet the Italian government’s Orwellian new automated tax snitch By the end of the 3rd century AD, the finances of ancient Rome were in terminal crisis. Years and years of debasing the currency had resulted in severe hyperinflation– a period of Roman history known as the Crisis of the Third Century (from AD 235 through […]
War Spending Will Bankrupt America
War Spending Will Bankrupt America “Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — […]
The Hunt for Taxes Brings Down Governments Every Time
The Hunt for Taxes Brings Down Governments Every Time COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I live in Germany. I wanted to send my father €200 for Christmas. I had to prove where the money came from. It does seem as if there is a major gap between those trading the euro for big banks and the people. I […]
Greenhouses Gases Are a Product of Civilization for Thousands of Years
Greenhouses Gases Are a Product of Civilization for Thousands of Years QUESTION: Do you believe we are going into an ice age? ANSWER: No. At best we return to a mini-ice age. There are those who argue that a decline in solar activity, which they cannot deny, will not be enough to offset the human […]
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11 L’incendie de Rome, Hubert Robert (c. 1785) That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on […]
Globalization is Poverty
Globalization is Poverty Marc Riboud Zazou, painter of the EIffel Tower 1953Central bankers have never done more damage to the world economy than in the past 10 years. One may argue this is because they never had the power to do that. If their predecessors had had that power, who knows? Still, the global economy […]
