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If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest
If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest The are much better ways to spend the next $1 Trillion We are at an important juncture as a global society: either we immediately prioritize a new trajectory focused on creating a positive, functional future or — by continuing the consumptive, extractive, exploitative status […]
The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies of the Vampires of Debt
The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies of the Vampires of Debt Those who refuse debt, regardless of the sacrifice, are starving the parasitic, exploitive machine; those with debt are feeding it. We hear a lot about debtors, and very little about undebtors. I define an undebtor as an individual or entity that has sworn off debt or considers debt […]
The Three Acronyms That Best Describe This Era: TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI
The Three Acronyms That Best Describe This Era: TINA, TANSTAAFL and FUGAZI TINA and the complacent belief in free lunches strip the resiliency from a system and leave it vulnerable to collapse. It’s tough to select three acronyms that best capture the current perfection of central planning, central banking and centralized propaganda. FUBAR (f**ked up beyond […]
Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win
Even When the Sociopaths Lose They Win How exactly do you cook a nutritious meal if all you have are spoiled ingredients? The answer depends upon your definition of nutritious and who is eating the meal……and, of course, your level of hunger and growing desperation. It is telling how much less discerning we become when […]
What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don’t Tell You About Income Inequality
What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don’t Tell You About Income Inequality So-called reasonable proposals on how to fix inequality are really a bunch of hot air. In a paper for the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Working Group on the Political Economy of Distribution, economist Lance Taylor and his colleagues examine income inequality using new […]
How the Powerful Try to Rule Through Cybersecurity
How the Powerful Try to Rule Through Cybersecurity Michael Daugherty is President & CEO of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. Daugherty exposes how business was cyber bullied by federal contractors in his book The Devil Inside the Beltway, He summarizes his incredible story below: …click on the above link to […]
The Lesson of Greece: Only Collapse Makes Real Change Possible
The Lesson of Greece: Only Collapse Makes Real Change Possible When the illusion that the Status Quo can fulfill all its promises to everybody dies, the Status Quo starts the terminal slide to effective collapse. Of the many lessons we can learn from Greece’s difficult path to rejection of debt-serfdom, the most important is perhaps […]
Greece Just Blew Up the Empire’s Death Star of Debt
Greece Just Blew Up the Empire’s Death Star of Debt The Greek Elites and kleptocrats are terrified of the discipline that leaving the euro will impose, but the general public should welcome the transition to an economy and society that has been freed from the shackles of Imperial debt and the kleptocracy that has bled […]
Failing Stimulus And The IMF’s New ‘Multilateral’ World Order
Failing Stimulus And The IMF’s New ‘Multilateral’ World Order My theme for 2015 has been the assertion that this will be a year of shattered illusions; social, political, as well as economic. As I have noted in recent articles, 2014 set the stage for multiple engineered conflicts, including the false conflict between Eastern and Western […]
Who Benefits When Bubbles Burst?
Who Benefits When Bubbles Burst? Blowing speculative bubbles cannot possibly lead to organic growth because speculative bubbles fatally undermine the real economy. An astute reader recently posed an insightful question: we all know who benefits from asset bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate–owners of assets, banks, the government (all those luscious capital gains and rising property taxes), […]
What Is a National Nervous Breakdown?
What Is a National Nervous Breakdown? When the citizenry cease to believe the lies, the nation suffers a nervous breakdown. Last week I used the phrase National Nervous Breakdown without clarifying its meaning. (The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss) By National Nervous Breakdown I do not mean the breakdown of civil order or the economy; I […]
Bilderberg – Part 1 | Economy |Axisoflogic.com
Bilderberg – Part 1 | Economy |Axisoflogic.com. Meet the Bilderberg Group – an annual gathering of 130 of the Western world’s top financial, corporate, political, academic, media, military and policy elites, held every year since 1954. They meet behind closed doors, at five-star hotels, where participants are encouraged to speak frankly – meaning “off the […]
The Cradle of Democracy Should Defy the Autocrats & Kleptocrats | StealthFlation
The Cradle of Democracy Should Defy the Autocrats & Kleptocrats | StealthFlation. On the old continent, this December 29th, a succinct political showdown is scheduled to take place which may well become a defining moment for our entirely unsettled new millenium. What is at stake is none other than the prosperity of the common man […]
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | Now There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, Chauncey
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | Now There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, Chauncey. Like every other male homo sapiens I know, I watch a lot of sports. There’s only one team that I watch as a fan – the University of Alabama football team (my grandfather and uncle played there, and I was raised in […]
