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The 10 Rules of Propaganda
The 10 Rules of Propaganda Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871–1946. This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda. They are these: 1. We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves. 2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war. 3. Our adversary’s leader is evil […]
COVID and the Noble Lie
COVID and the Noble Lie “Unethical”… “dystopian”… “totalitarian”… These are the words of the British government’s primary scientific advisory bunch — the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, by title. These scientific advisors presently droop their heads in shame. For these are the very words they employ to describe their own conduct. They concede: Last […]
The Arctic Is Melting
The Arctic Is Melting EARTH is down with a fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post: The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface. Expeditions have sailed as far as 81 degrees […]
The Fed Wrecked the World’s Most Important Market
The Fed Wrecked the World’s Most Important Market Do you wish to know where the economy is heading? The bond market holds the answer, say the veterans. The birds of the moment, the flighty birds, flock to the stock market. But the owls nest in the bond market. The owls are the wiseacres. The Federal Reserve’s […]
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived We are often warned that negative interest rates are an approaching menace — not an immediate menace. Yet are negative rates already reality in the United States? Has the unholy day already arrived? Today we don the sleuth’s cap, step into our gumshoes… and unearth evidence that negative interest rates […]
Why Martians Are Wrong About Gold
Why Martians Are Wrong About Gold A martian — Warren Buffett once razzed — would marvel that earthlings dig gold from the ground… only to rebury it in vaults. That is, the business is idiotic… pointless… and wasteful. At first blush, our space man is justly puzzled. Why would humans shovel up hunks of metal […]
They’ve Done It Again
They’ve Done It Again The stars are back in their courses. The angels are back in the heavens. And the Perfections are back within sight… For merely 148 trading days after bottoming… the S&P returned to record heights today. The index closed the day at 3,389 — eclipsing its February 19 height of 3,386. Thus […]
REVEALED: The Fed’s Next Trick
REVEALED: The Fed’s Next Trick Today we lower our ear to the rail… and report the approach of a rumbling locomotive. Free and honest markets are roped to the tracks, squirming, writhing, sobbing. This iron horse is barreling toward them. Mr. Jerome Powell is at the controls… And murder is on his mind. What is […]
Goodbye, Free Market
Goodbye, Free Market Fremdschämen. Fremdschämen is a noun of the German language. It translates this way: Embarrassment for those incapable of feeling embarrassment. Today we suffer embarrassment for Mr. Jerome Powell and his fellows of the Federal Reserve… For no action they take lowers their heads in shame… or blushes their cheeks with embarrassment. Mr. […]
The Fed’s Forever War Against Savers
The Fed’s Forever War Against Savers The war on savers rages into its second decade. And yesterday Field Marshal Powell vowed indefinite bombing, shelling, machine-gunning and bayoneting… until the white flag rises over enemy lines. It is war to the knife… and from the knife to the hilt. The only peace terms he will accept […]
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds The oppressed rise to their feet. Police sink to their knees. Silence is violence. And violence is speech. From sea to glittering sea, from one continent to the next… protests yet rage. An injustice somewhere on a Minneapolis street evidently threatens justice everywhere. It certainly threatens the peace […]
Rise up, America!
Rise up, America! Today we hoist the black flag of anarchy… and plot illicit acts. For the spirit of sedition steals over us. And passion overmasters our typical Olympian serenity. We may be declared infamous and set down as an insurrectionist. We may be sent to the gallows. Yet the time for meek submission is […]
The Biggest Economic Threat Today
The Biggest Economic Threat Today Kind heaven, no! A fresh economic scourge is upon the land. Announces CNN: “New Threat to the Economy: Americans Are Saving Like It’s the 1980s.” Is a higher evil possible? Thus we are informed: Americans are slashing their spending, hoarding cash and shrinking their credit card debt as they fear […]
Prepare for Trench Warfare
Prepare for Trench Warfare What if China isn’t half so desperate for a deal as the president believes? Are we in for an extended siege of economic trench warfare? Today we explore possibilities… and their implications. We first direct our gaze to Wall Street. Investors came crouching from their shelters this morning… as if expecting […]
Central Banks Don’t Matter
Central Banks Don’t Matter “There is no money in monetary policy.” Could it be true? Is there no money in monetary policy? Yesterday we argued the Federal Reserve cannot even define money… much less measure it to any reasonable satisfaction. Today we venture upon a heresy deeper still — that central bank “monetary” policy has […]
