Commentary

By The Burning Platform “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got […]

by Jeff Thomas About a year ago, we began to advise those internationalising themselves that the time had arrived at which they might consider divesting themselves of currencies—that holding bank notes may soon become a […]

by rcwhalen Latest comments on Tim Geithner from Bill Black and his blog “New Economic Perspectives” — Chris http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-single-revealing-se… http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/05/geithners-ad-hominem-attacks-… Geithner’s Single Most Revealing Sentence William K. Black Timothy Geithner has a great deal of […]

By Anthony B. Sanders – George Mason University We know the labor market is weak even though it is now almost 5 years since the end of the recession (June 2009). The labor force participation […]

By Zine Larbaoui “History is a teacher nobody listens to.” — Otto von Habsburg         Pictured above is a lead-filled Roman coin, the symbol of the Roman breakdown to which the United […]

By Washington’s blog David Galland notes: Monetary scholar Edwin Vieira … pointed out that every 30 to 40 years the reigning monetary system fails and has to be retooled. The last time around for the […]

By Tyler Durden So much for the recovery… As WaPo reports, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. A rather damning new Brookings Institution report shows […]

By Julie Lévesque Image: An Iraqi woman with her dead child. Source: A Real Cost Of The Iraq War War is Peace. What was known as a famous quote from George Orwell’s fiction 1984 has become […]

By Mac Slavo With the situation in the Ukraine escalating and the US continuing to call for sanctions against Russia’s financial and political elite, Vladimir Putin is now not only mobilizing tens of thousands of […]

By Brandon Smith This report has been contributed by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com Despite popular belief, very few things in our world are exactly what they seem. That which is painted as righteous is often […]