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What Keeps Neil Howe Up At Night: An Interview With The Author Of “The Fourth Turning”
What Keeps Neil Howe Up At Night: An Interview With The Author Of “The Fourth Turning” “Underproduction, undercapacity, deflation, currency wars, demographics, falling birth rates” – those are the biggest fears which Fourth Turning author, and head of Saeculum Research Neil Howe, lays out in this interview excerpt courtesy of RealVision TV. While Howe goes […]
Gold Standard Nonsense Compelling Us To Repeat History
Gold Standard Nonsense Compelling Us To Repeat History COMMENT: “The system is collapsing. It is not because of some derivatives bubble. It is not because of fiat. This is because of the debt gone wild” Sure! And you don’t see the connection with the lack of a gold standard? This would never have happened during […]
False East/West Paradigm And The End Of Freedom
False East/West Paradigm And The End Of Freedom People are desperate for leaders and heroes. This is an undeniable condition of human life and of human civilization. Some historians and social observers, however, seem to think it is enough to simply point out this condition and pretend as if they have made some grand declaration; […]
Of Europe, Syria and Anthropogeographic Inversion
Of Europe, Syria and Anthropogeographic Inversion The immediate force behind the rapid and successful European overseas projection was actually the combination of two elements. Europe’s economic advancement (less the capacity to invent than the readiness to retake from others, the so-called superior adaptive capacity in technology, navigation, and transport) coupled with a demographic expansion […]
Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class
Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to […]
Today Is the Last Day of Trading on Wall Street Before Shemitah Ends… What Will Happen This Time?
Today Is the Last Day of Trading on Wall Street Before Shemitah Ends… What Will Happen This Time? This isn’t meant to be another one of those scary September 2015 stories, but we can’t just completely ignore history either. Today isn’t just the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It also happens to […]
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly […]
Bubbles Don’t Correct, They BURST!
Bubbles Don’t Correct, They BURST! I’m practically drowning in interviews. I had half a dozen yesterday and even more today. But it’s time to put the word out that the second greatest bull march in history is finally coming to an end. It’s done. Wall Street thinks this is a correction – a 10% drop, […]
Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious?
Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious? One of the great economists of the twentieth century had the misfortune of publishing his magnum opus, The Great Transformation, in 1944, months before the inauguration of a new era of postwar economic growth and consumer culture. Few people in the 1940s or 1950s wanted to hear piercing criticisms of […]
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas In an article on April 13 ( http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/13/power-lies/ ) I used the so-called Civil War and the myths with which court historians have encumbered that war to show how history is falsified in order to serve agendas. I pointed out that it was a war of secession, not a civil war […]
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny
Liberty Movement Needs More Innovations To Counter Technological Tyranny The great lesson from history that each consecutive generations seems to forget is that the tools of tyranny used outward will inevitably be turned inward. That is to say, the laws and weapons governments devise for supposed enemies abroad will ALWAYS and eventually be used against […]
History in Free Verse
History in Free Verse History might not rhyme, exactly, but it’s not bad for free verse. Greece is this century’s Serbia — a tiny, picturesque backwater nation blundering haplessly into the center stage of geopolitics. And the European Union is, whaddaya know, Germany in drag, on financial steroids. Nobody knows what will happen next in […]
Back in time: Retracing the path to diversity
Back in time: Retracing the path to diversity Industrial bread production is based on speed, scale and uniformity. To supply this system, industrially grown grain is limited to a few, highly controlled varieties. But greater diversity would make grain crops more adaptable and therefore more sustainable in the long run. How are some plant breeders, […]
