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Future Headline: White House Prepares to Block Out the Sun
Future Headline: White House Prepares to Block Out the Sun In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. […]
Putting all the Pieces Together
Putting all the Pieces Together We start our podcast today more than 2,500 years ago at a time when the dominant superpower in the western world was the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Their civilization had reached an unfathomable level of wealth and sophistication; historical records show that, at peak, the Persian treasury had more than […]
The Media is the Number One Cause of War Since 1898
The Media is the Number One Cause of War Since 1898 In 1895, a 32-year old entrepreneur in New York City bought a failing newspaper and hatched a bold plan to turn it around. The newspaper industry was cutthroat, especially in New York. There were at least 16 other daily newspapers in circulation, and there […]
Five critical factors why prices will stay high for years
Five critical factors why prices will stay high for years At approximately 9am local time on February 21, 1972, a Boeing 707 airplane dubbed Spirit of ‘76 landed in Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport. The airplane’s main door opened, and out walked US President Richard Nixon. The trip shocked the world. There had been no formal communication […]
Governments have been screwing up their supply chains for 2,000 years
Governments have been screwing up their supply chains for 2,000 years On the evening of March 16th in the year 37 AD, one of the most controversial emperors in Roman history appeared to be dying in his bed. Friends and family gathered to pay their final respects to Emperor Tiberius, who had ruled for more […]
America’s Attila the Hun moment
America’s Attila the Hun moment In the year 435 AD, after several years of endless menacing from the nomadic Hun tribe, the Roman Empire was ready to make a deal. The Huns were fairly new on the continent; they had originally come from central Eurasia as recently as 370 AD. Yet in the span of […]
The Imbecile King who put his foot on the pedal
The Imbecile King who put his foot on the pedal Charles II was only three years old when he became the supreme ruler of the Spanish Empire in 1665. But anyone who took just one look at the child knew they were all doomed. Charles had come from a long line of prominent European nobles […]
Three bizarre reasons why inflation is here to stay
Three bizarre reasons why inflation is here to stay When I was about five years old in the early 1980s, my dad brought home our first computer. I’ll never forget it– it was an clunky IBM with a tiny, orange, monochromatic monitor, and dual floppy disks. It had 640 kilobytes of RAM, and no hard […]
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last?
How long will the US dollar’s dominance last? 301 AD was a big year for the Roman Empire. That was the year that, amid spiraling inflation, Emperor Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices, essentially fixing prices of just about everything across the Roman Empire. The price of wheat, a day labor’s wages, a quart […]
Delta variant throws the world back into Orwellian autocracy
Delta variant throws the world back into Orwellian autocracy Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Doctors could lose medical licenses if they spread vaccine “misinformation” […]
No inflation? Even used car prices are soaring
No inflation? Even used car prices are soaring We’ve reached a point now where anyone who can’t see inflation is clearly not paying attention. Inflation has now become so ridiculous that, according to the Wall Street Journal, even the price of a USED car is increasing… by a lot. Since January 2020, NEW car prices […]
Western Civilization has become a never-ending Jerry Springer episode
Western Civilization has become a never-ending Jerry Springer episode Early in the 2nd century AD, around the year 101, the Roman humorist Decimus Junius Juvenalis began publishing a collection of satirical poems poking fun at the Empire. Rome was already in serious decline by the time Juvenalis wrote his first poem. In the first century […]
Three reasons why inflation is rising. Two of them aren’t going away
Three reasons why inflation is rising. Two of them aren’t going away A remarkable thing happened yesterday that tells you everything you need to know about inflation. In the morning, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated bluntly that “interest rates will have to rise somewhat to make sure that our economy doesn’t overheat. . .” […]
