The housing market is now apparently turning down. Consumer incomes are limited by jobs offshoring and the ability of employers to hold down wages and salaries. The Federal Reserve seems committed to higher interest rates--in my view to protect the
World-renowned author and lecturer Noam Chomsky pointed out in a recent interview that Israel has actually had far more influence in the United States political system than Russia ever has, in the wake of mass media hysteria about alleged "collusio
Vinny was a tall, skinny Dutch guy I'd met while backpacking around Canada when I was 18. We became firm friends and kept in touch for many years. I, toiling amongst the pointy shoes in the city of London, and he, managing a family business in Holla
Sometimes a society's values change sharply with almost no one noticing. In 1968, according to a Gallup survey, 70 percent of American adults said that a family of three or more children was "ideal" -- about the same number as Gallup surveys s
There is no need for you to read history, political science, sociology or philosophy to understand why democracies fail. All you need is to understand the intelligence of your fellow voters. And for that, all you need is to read some sample headlin
Below are two letters to the editor in response to a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the folly of investment funds taking into consideration political and social issues in their investment decisions.
The 2018 Helsinki summit has left Americans puzzled, some terrified, others feign outrage but few have stood back and taken a breath. Always stand back, always take a breath, always keep the mouth shut and the hand off the keyboard.
If you want to know why America is going to hell in a fiscal hand basket, it's because the last vestige of opposition to the Warfare State and the fiscal muggings of the military/industry/intelligence complex has utterly evaporated.
Tucker Carlson called Trump's capitulation to the intelligence community's line that Russia is a major threat a 'hostage tape.' Tucker then gave examples of how US intelligence agencies, the deep state, and NGOs, have kept America in wars for
"Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby
Anthony Bourdain pulled no punches in one of his final interviews as the celebrity chef slammed Bill Clinton for being 'rapey, gropey and disgusting' and spoke of how he imagined Harvey Weinstein dying alone in a bathtub.
According to numerous media reports and a leaked email, David Wilcock of DivineCosmos.com is leaving GAIA TV over some rather sharp disagreements, including what Wilcock describes as a "Lucifarian" agenda involving the GAIA show called Ancient Ci
When Donald Trump started running for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, he began by attacking the Republican establishment in Washington, and he began his attack by calling the establishment "the swamp."
A common sentiment among proponents of government and centralized authority is that "taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society." In reality, however, the state's hunger for tax revenue and control directly undermines well-intent
This week on the MacroVoices podcast, host Erik Townsend welcomed Eric Peters, the CEO and CIO of One River Asset Management, for a discussion about the long-term future of the US economy, and how demographics, the expanding US debt, and the waning i
For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a free society.
A few weeks ago I decided I probably wouldn't raise this point anymore - that libertarianism and communism have more in common than many libertarians would care to admit; in fact, subtract private property (which, I admit, is a meaningful subtrac
A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers' money to be given to arms manufacturers.
The Declaration of Independence -- which was signed on July 3, 1776, for public release on July 4 -- was Thomas Jefferson's masterpiece. Jefferson himself wrote much about the declaration in the 50 years that followed.
Cybersecurity pioneer-turned-crypto-troll John McAfee is at it again, and this time he's setting his sights on HitBTC, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
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So a staffer working for Ron Paul made a terrible mistake today and tweeted out a picture which included very ugly stereotype caricatures of Jews, blacks and I'm not sure who-all.