Government

A Precarious Revolution Is Brewing

March 15, 2019 0

Charles Hugh Smith Once again profound social and economic forces are changing the nation in ways that are difficult to understand in real time. The American Revolution arose not from politics but from rapid social […]

Media

Facebook vs. the World

March 15, 2019 0

BY GREG GUENTHNER POSTED MARCH 15, 2019 You might have noticed Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Instagram were down earlier this week. Users of both social media platforms reported difficultly logging into their accounts on Wednesday. The outage […]

World Affairs

New Zealand and the Positive Feedback of Violence:

March 15, 2019 0

by Ghassan Kadi for The Saker Blog The tragic news of terrorism in New Zealand highlights the failure of Western governments in dealing with it. In its policy of denial of addressing ISIS-like activities in […]

Commentary

Israel Is Not America’s Ally

March 14, 2019 0

By DANIEL LARISON • March 8, 2019,  dnaveh/shutterstock Andrew Sullivan comments on the U.S.-Israel relationship and the role of “pro-Israel” lobbying groups in our politics in a new essay. There are several things that I think Sullivan gets wrong, but […]

Government

How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps

March 14, 2019 0

CHARLES HUGH SMITH The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed […]

Government

The Fed’s Failures Are Mounting

March 14, 2019 0

Danielle DiMartino Booth In the decade between “60 Minutes” interviews, the central bank has sparked a recovery without inflation but not much else. By Danielle DiMartino-Booth March 12, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT   This article originally appeared […]

Commentary

“Now Is the Time of Monsters”

March 13, 2019 0

by Jeff Thomas In ancient Rome, interregnum was the term given to the period between stable governments when anything untoward might occur, and sometimes did – civil unrest, warfare between warlords, power vacuums and, finally, succession wars. But […]

Commentary

How Six Years Of QE Transformed Young Americans Into Socialists

March 12, 2019 0

by Tyler Durden As the bull market turned ten years old last week, it is worth examining whether the efforts of the Federal Reserve, during former Chairman Ben Bernanke’s leadership, to avoid another 1930s-style debt deflationary crash, sparked a new generation […]

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