Doug Casey on Venezuela, Oil, and America’s Bid to Push China Out of Its Backyard
International Man: President Trump justified the operation and capture of Nicolas Maduro by saying it was because of drug trafficking and illegal immigration. What…
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The Melt-Up Trap: Why Stocks Must Rise Until the Dollar Breaks
The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is one of the clearest windows into how the average American actually feels about the economy. Each…
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“The Bank Was Saved, and the People Were Ruined.”
The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the…
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The Absurd Farce of Machine Guns, Maduro, and the Endless War on Drugs
The Venezuela saga gets more cockamamie by the day. It turns out that the predicates for kidnapping the president of a country that poses…
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Do We Need The State?
Rousseau was perhaps the first to popularize the fiction now taught in civics classes about how government was created. It holds that men sat…
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The Stock Market Isn’t a Market Anymore — It’s a Political Control Mechanism
It has become increasingly clear to me that the stock market is no longer a stock market in the traditional sense. Its primary purpose…
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It Will Happen Suddenly
As the Great Unravelling progresses, we shall be seeing many negative developments, some of them unprecedented. Only a year ago, the average person was…
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Energy and Wealth: The Correlation That Built Nations
The relationship between energy consumption and national wealth is one of history’s most consistent patterns. From coal-fired Britain to oil-powered America to today’s renewable…
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Doug Casey: Comparing the 1930s and Today
You’ve heard the axiom “History repeats itself.” It does, but never in exactly the same way. To apply the lessons of the past, we…
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You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme
“You can’t taper a Ponzi scheme.” Financial commentator Max Keiser originally said these simple yet profound words. A Ponzi scheme is an unsustainable scam…