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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We are supposed to believe that what we are witnessing is just one “tragic accident” after another. We aren’t supposed to see any sort of a pattern, and we aren’t supposed to ask any questions. Last month, I wrote an article about 16 mysterious fires that have happened at important food industry facilities in the […]
