2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (305+ words) Copyright © Charles Hugh Smith...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (861+ words) “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third may profit by their example...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (635+ words) Add all this up and what we’re hyper-hurriedly “manufacturing” is an automated army of self-cloaking digital sociopaths. Since the status quo is characterized by self-serving PR, misdirection and delusions, it shouldn’t surprise us that “rogue AI agents” aren’t actually rogue,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (741+ words) What matters is seeing the fuse burning and realizing it’s going to blow up, and planning accordingly. Perhaps the greatest irony of the inevitability of the stagflationary, bubble-popping recession we’re entering is that the “solution” to the 2008-09 financial crisis–near-zero…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (387+ words) The principles set out in the Ethics of Liberty to prohibit aggression between individuals, Smith and...Jones in Rothbard’s example, apply to states too: “The same criteria hold if Smith and Jones each have...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (646+ words) what appears to be a hapless man named Roger “Verbal” Kint memorably paraphrases the French poet Charles...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (808+ words) Obviously, any phenomenon as complex as the French Revolution is not the result of any single factor. But there are many important non-philosophical reasons why the French Revolution produced bloodshed on a level that eclipsed that of the American Revolution....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (413+ words) The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it. Is it simply a matter of applied Keynesianism, that of spending the country into…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (645+ words) Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to “do something” about a depression, he was no maverick. He had the support of distinguished court economists who promoted the idea that stable prices were the key…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (672+ words) The following speech from a renegade Fed chairman is excerpted from The Flight of the Barbarous Relic. There should be a sign on the front of the Eccles Building in Washington saying, ‘We work for the elites – the commercial bankers…...