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Washington Is Dismantling Its Own Empire One War at a Time — Robert Barnes and Larry Johnson - LRC Blog
9+ hour, 45+ min ago (187+ words) Former Trump Attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine how the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the weaponization of the dollar and a succession of strategic miscalculations are reshaping the international order. From…...
Your Enemy, The Deep State
16+ hour, 12+ min ago (886+ words) Many people would like political solutions to their problems. In other words, they want the government to force others to do what they prefer. However, people with any moral sense recognize that can only create more problems. Clever players, especially…...
Lessons Buried in the Rubble: What Argentina???s 2001 Collapse Actually Teaches Us
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (443+ words) Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada on December 20, 2001, through a side door, boarding a helicopter from the building’s roof. It was not symbolic. It was a literal escape from a capital in flames, where 22 people had died in…...
Why Not Just Admit It? The Welfare-Warfare State Has Failed.
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (534+ words) 1. The federal debt now exceeds $40 trillion. The welfare-warfare state is expensive. Moreover, people love the system but don’t want to pay for it. Politicians know that. So rather than raise income taxes, which they know people hate, they just go…...
The Entire Financial System Is Chained to Government Debt
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (615+ words) The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a “fiscal-financial stability nexus.” That is sanitized bureaucratic language for a system…...
Can a Nation Be Irrevocably Ruined by Its Leaders?
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (424+ words) Oh Deutschland, bleiche Mutter! Wie haben deine Söhne dich zugerichtet Dass du unter den Völkern sitzest Ein Gespött oder eine Furcht! Oh Germany, pale mother! How have your sons ill-served you That you are scorned by all people— A thing…...
The Arabic Word Behind the Bank Check: The VOC Company??? From Its Arab and Italian Financial Origins to Its Rise and Fall
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (457+ words) When tracing the origins of modern capitalism, historians instinctively point to Amsterdam in 1602. Watch this creative 3D animation for VOC company. While the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) undoubtedly birthed the modern financial system, the architecture they…...
Hoping for Smooth Sailing With the Sea Gulls and Thoreau
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (1218+ words) Here where I sit once again looking easterly to the vast sea, the wind and the waves and winding vistas along the north Atlantic coast drown out trivial thoughts. We are here for a few days to empty our minds…...
The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (416+ words) The economist Thomas Sowell frequently reminds us that inequality is inherent in human nature. Rather than being puzzled by economic inequality, we should be concerned with understanding the causes of productivity. It is productivity that improves everyone’s material conditions and…...
Central Banking, the Scourge of Civilization
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (897+ words) Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money…...