From Sane Space : Libertarian Dispatches From Bizarro America In response to something I’d written about labor unions, a critic started badgering me about child labor. What a terrible feature of capitalism, he said. No, it was a terrible feature of all of world history, I replied. Thank goodness for people who passed laws against […]
From BullionStar.com on Zerohedge Smuggling gold to India and Japan has become a lucrative business for many dealers and middlemen across Asia. It is widely known that demand for physical gold by Asian populations is insatiable. From the estimated 25,000 tonnes of gold held by India’s population to the more than 20,000 tonnes of gold calculated to be held […]
By u/Zladtmohican1 on Reddit Listening to the Fed chair speak today has helped me organize this thought I have had for awhile. We know that USD and all fiat currencies are inflationary, but many people do not understand to what degree when you account for deflation. We live in a deflationary world. Deflation defined here […]
By Mark Mills on Economics21.org The math behind “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking” A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have […]
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Strategic Culture Foundation The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means since the then incipient strategy was first unveiled at the […]
Avoid the Slippery Slope, by Robert Gore on Straight Line Logic Editor’s note: Twitter seems to be following the policy they have adopted in the USA by proceeding to censor several Indian right wing accounts. What follows is an article originally published by Robert Gore on the Straight Line Logic Blog in October 2018. We […]