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The View of American Politics from Afar
The View of American Politics from Afar COMMENT: This business with Trump and the media is quite amazing when seen from a distance. I read posts from people who can not see past what they are believing. It’s as if the hate for Trump has become a Religion. A religious person will refuse to look at […]
Nine “Fascinating” Stats About Inflation
Nine “Fascinating” Stats About Inflation In a report on the history (and future) of inflation from Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid, the credit strategist notes that while it may not feel like it, but we live in inflationary times relative to long-term history. Before the start of the twentieth century prices generally crept higher only very […]
Civil Unrest for 2018/2019 Post Election Cycle – The End of the United States?
Civil Unrest for 2018/2019 Post Election Cycle – The End of the United States? QUESTION: I have followed you for many years and read you daily. To the point, I was looking at the riots in LA 1n 1965 and then the riots in 1992, that being 27 years so I divided that by 8.6 and […]
Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War
Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War The Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian patriots who are tiring of Putin’s non-confrontational responses to Washington’s never-ending insults and military provocations. Russian patriots don’t […]
How A Central Bank Caused One of History’s Biggest Cons
How A Central Bank Caused One of History’s Biggest Cons In the summer of 1821, a roguish Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor arrived by boat in London, and initiated arguably the most audacious confidence scam in history. MacGregor had spent much of the previous decade fighting as a soldier of fortune in the Venezuelan War of […]
EXPOSED: Secret History of Russia and Wall St.
EXPOSED: Secret History of Russia and Wall St. As we have often explained in our book Splitting Pennies, the world is not as it seems. Politics often polarizes a country it seems every election there becomes ‘two’ Americas but the current polarization seems to be that of ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ whereas on one side, there are […]
The Economic History Of The World In One Minute
The Economic History Of The World In One Minute “…and America’s pre-eminence is over” ✔ The economic history of the world in one minute 6:53 PM – Jul 7, 2018 As we noted previously, history did not end with the Cold War and, as Mark Twain put it, whilst history doesn’t repeat it often rhymes. As […]
The tales of history are a dead-end road
The tales of history are a dead-end road Culture is what people do. It decays when people stop culturing. Changing a culture means changing what we do. Often, that will need a step by step transition as we negotiate obstacles. Even though we follow some backward meanders, the river may flow on. But there are […]
Murder Incorporated
Murder Incorporated Murder Incorporated is a three-book series by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, which I can highly recommend based on the first book. The other two are not out yet. Book One, “Dreaming of Empire,” is a critique of U.S. imperialism, a debunking of U.S. nationalist myths, a corrective or alternative history of […]
How Mises Explained the Fall of Rome
How Mises Explained the Fall of Rome An excerpt from Mises’ classic work, ‘Human Action’. Observations on the Causes of the Decline of Ancient Civilization Knowledge of the effects of government interference with market prices makes us comprehend the economic causes of a momentous historical event, the decline of ancient civilization. It may be left […]
Weather Impacted Wars & Migrations in Pre-Recorded History
Weather Impacted Wars & Migrations in Pre-Recorded History Archaeologists working in the wetlands of Denmark have uncovered 2,000-year-old human remains are revealing that the Germanic “barbarians” were engaging in warfare in northern Europe against other barbarian tribes which had nothing to do with Rome. The research, which was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of […]
The End Of Our Empire Approaches
The End Of Our Empire Approaches History is clear on where we’re headed Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline? If so, don’t be embarrassed by it. Historically speaking, we’re in very good company. Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. This was hit […]
A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat
A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington’s present cast of characters, a crew in flight from history, the past, or knowledge of more or less any sort. Still, just for the hell of it, let’s take a few moments […]
