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2018: The Year of Living Dangerously
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously I’m calling 2018 “The Year of Living Dangerously.” That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months. Even in […]
Why Governments are Like an Ameba
Why Governments are Like an Ameba QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You may be called the legend because of your forecasts on so many levels, but it might also be because you have met with more governments than probably any economist or analyst. My question is simple. From your experience, do you believe you can prevent the […]
Governments Try to Control Language to Hilarious Results
Governments Try to Control Language to Hilarious Results In the region formerly known as Yugoslavia, everyone speaks the same basic language, despite the individual countries’ governments insisting that they don’t. It is quite interesting to see how widespread some languages are, with some having over a billion speakers while others are spoken by a single […]
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News” YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to […]
Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
Photo: Eric Risberg/AP Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli Government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constitute “incitement.” The meetings – called […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
Are Governments Running Out of Candy?
Are Governments Running Out of Candy? By now, many readers will have seen the popular American YouTube video by Mark Dice in which he stands on a city sidewalk and offers passers-by a free gift. They may choose between a 10-ounce silver bar or a large Hershey’s candy bar. Each taker chooses the candy – […]
J20 Defendants Await Verdict In the First Test of Government Attempt to Criminalize Protest Group As a Whole
Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images J20 DEFENDANTS AWAIT VERDICT IN FIRST TEST OF GOVERNMENT ATTEMPT TO CRIMINALIZE PROTEST GROUP AS A WHOLE IT’S BEEN A BLEAK year for the 194 protestors, medics, and journalists facing multiple felony charges stemming from their arrest surrounding Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Vilified by much of the […]
Doug Casey on What Happens After the Next 9/11
Doug Casey on What Happens After the Next 9/11 Is a police state in the US possible? Absolutely. That’s because people are essentially the same the world over, regardless of their culture, religion, race, or what-have-you. A certain percentage of them are sociopaths. There is a standard distribution of sociopaths across time and space. It’s […]
The Zealous Pursuit of State-Sponsored Collapse
The Zealous Pursuit of State-Sponsored Collapse When Bakers Go Fishing Government intervention into a nation’s economy is as foolish as attempting to control the sun’s rise and fall by law or force. But that doesn’t mean governments don’t meddle each and every day with the best – and worst – of intentions. The United States […]
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 3 (War)
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 3 (War) In the first two installments of this series, I discussed the potential for the U.S. federal government to make some spectacularly foolish moves against its own people in the realms of cannabis and Bitcoin. My basic assumption is that government tends to […]
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 2 (Bitcoin)
Expect Desperate and Insane Behavior From Government in 2018 – Part 2 (Bitcoin) The financial crisis of 2008/09 was the most significant event to happen in my lifetime. That episode, coupled with the deeply unethical and corrupt response to it, led to a direct delegitimization of governments and institutions worldwide. It’s precisely this self-inflicted destruction […]
Is Cryptocurrency a Government Plot?
Is Cryptocurrency a Government Plot? QUESTION: You have said that the future will be cryptocurrencies. The Bank of Canada has come out and acknowledged what you have been saying that such private issue challenges the government’s profit structure. Do you think electronic money will be viable sooner or later down the road? PG ANSWER: Electronic currency is […]
Where the Government Fear-Porn Propaganda Industry is Headed
Where the Government Fear-Porn Propaganda Industry is Headed Sometimes I wish I had no conscience or morals. Then I could go to work for the government writing fear propaganda. Killer robots are the latest terror. But there are so many takes on it! It’s like Josef Goebbels’ dream to have so much material to work with. […]
