Crackpottery
When the stock market goes up, for example. But when stocks go up faster than GDP, it merely shifts wealth from average households to the richest ones — those that own most of corporate America.
In the Shadows
In the Shadows
Poor Jeff Epstein. The kindest word you will hear about him in the press is that he is dead.
Calm…like a morgue
Calm…like a morgue
America’s big devaluation began in 1971…and is on-going. In gold terms, the dollar has lost 99.2% of its value. And it is being devalued — though not officially — everyday.
Supreme Smackdown
Supreme Smackdown
Tariffs never made any sense to us. Civilized prosperity is built on trade, not autonomy. The man who makes his own shoes, grows his own food, and builds his own automobile, is a very busy man.
The Doctor Will See You Now
The Doctor Will See You Now
We see machines that can do almost everything, physically and mentally, that a human can do. But with none of the sick days or bad attitudes that characterize our race.
Pain, Pleasure, and Poverty
Pain, Pleasure, and Poverty
The allure of power is that you can get ordinary people to do things they don’t want to do. Threats and violence follow; they’re the only ways to get them to do it.
Popolo Americano
Popolo Americano
In the animal kingdom, alpha males often drive off rivals. Primates, seals, birds…they often fight – sometimes to the death — for the right to mate.
Tearing Down the Dollar Temple
Tearing Down the Dollar Temple
One of the key ingredients for good money was that it be ‘trustworthy.’ How trustworthy is money that can be taken away, confiscated, barricaded or used to undermine your government.
A President’s Day Special
A President’s Day Special
Our view, a minority one…and widely viewed as ‘defeatist’…is that these things take place regardless of what anyone thinks. History marches along, thoughts get in step.
Paper Privilege
Paper Privilege
The US reneged on its promise to exchange dollars for gold in August of 1971. Dollars were still the world’s reserve currency, but nobody had any guarantee that they would remain limited and valuable.
