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Doug Casey on the Ridiculous Policies for Addressing Inflation and Rising Prices

By / July 21, 2022

International Man: Recently, President Biden acknowledged inflation and its impact on Americans. But he blamed “Putin’s Price hike” for the rising prices. What’s your take on this? Doug Casey: As Milton Friedman pointed out many years ago, inflation is always, in every instance, a monetary phenomenon. In other words, it’s caused solely by printing money. Period. We […]

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Suicide by Monetary and Energy Policy

By / July 20, 2022

The war — and it is a war — between the Western-led economic, social and political system and that of the East becomes more visible weekly. Doug Casey recently said it well: “We’re now undergoing our own Great Cultural Revolution. It’s much more serious than what the Chinese attempted in the ’60s. Why? Because a […]

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The Federal Republic of New Normal Germany

By / July 19, 2022

CJ Hopkins So, the government of New Normal Germany is contemplating forcing everyone to wear medical-looking masks in public from October to Easter on a permanent basis. Seriously, the fanatical New Normal fascists currently in charge of Germany’s government — mostly the SPD and the Greens — are discussing revising the “Infection Protection Act” in […]

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Falling From Grace – The Decline of the US

By / July 18, 2022

Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it’s one that I’ve kept […]

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4 Ways To Get a Second Passport Today

By / July 17, 2022

Most people have medical, life, fire, and car insurance. Of course, you hope you never have to use these policies, but you have them anyway. They give you peace of mind and protect you if and when the worst does happen. International diversification is the ultimate insurance policy against an out-of-control government. I call it […]

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What Motivated Russia to Invade Ukraine?

By / July 16, 2022

Ambassador Robert Felder was a career member of the United States Foreign Service from 1966 to 2000. He subsequently served as a business consultant and executive in the generic pharmaceutical industry. Now retired, he lives in Boca Raton, Florida and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The following paper was prepared as an informal talk for a private […]

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In Case You Were Wondering Why Inflation Has Started To Spiral Wildly Out Of Control…

By / July 15, 2022

When you keep making horrible decisions, eventually the consequences are going to catch up with you.  That is true for individuals, and it is also true for entire nations.  Here in the United States, previous generations handed down to us the strongest and most stable national currency on the planet.  Having the default reserve currency […]

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Normalizing the New Normal

By / July 15, 2022

Todd Hayen For something to be a “new” normal, it must reach some measure of consensual normalcy. What is normalcy? Many people believe it is whatever sits at the middle of the proverbial “bell curve,” i.e., “majority.” Is this true? In my practice as a psychotherapist, I am very uncomfortable when a client asks if […]

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The Broken Window Fallacy Reapplied

By / July 14, 2022

The claim of the Austrian School that has scandalized members of other schools for 150 years is the following. The propositions of economics are universal. The principles apply in all times and all places, because they derive from the structure of reality and human action. What brought about economic growth, inflation, or the business cycle in […]

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