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Can the Impending Collapse of Russiagate Halt the Slide Toward a Nuclear 1914?

February 3, 2018

Can the Impending Collapse of Russiagate Halt the Slide Toward a Nuclear 1914? In the period preceding the World War I how many Europeans suspected that their lives would soon be forever changed – and, for millions of them, ended? Who in the years, say, 1910 to 1913, could have imagined that the decades of […]

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Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?

December 28, 2017

Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]

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The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1)

January 16, 2016

The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1) The Great War ended on the 11th hour of November 11th, 1918, when the signed armistice came into effect. Though this peace would signal the end of the war, it would also help lead to a series of further destruction: this time the destruction of wealth […]

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War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom

November 4, 2015

War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat with each other. The conflict radically changed the world. It overthrew the pre-1914 era […]

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Lessons from the German Hyperinflation of the 1920s

March 25, 2015

Lessons from the German Hyperinflation of the 1920s The German hyperinflation episode in the early 1920s is often quoted as an example of the dire consequences of excessive money printing – a leading industrial economy succumbing to the dangers of currency debasement promoted by incompetent central bankers. Alas, the reality is more complex than that, […]

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