Going into the end of last year and at the start of this year I released a series of videos in which I said that the stock market weakness last year and gyrations across multiple financial markets represented a major stock market cycle shift that would lead to a very...
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TGIF: My Most Excellent Election Day Experience
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 9, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Last Tuesday, special day that it was, I awoke early and prepared to go out. By 7 a.m., I was where I always go on this special day, eager to do my duty and exercise my sacred right to choose. Entering the warm, brightly lit building, I was greeted by friendly folks...
FPF #253 – How Trump Hurts US Influence
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 1, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #253, I discuss how Trump has hurt US influence by leaving the Iran Nuke Deal. The deal prevented Iran from making nuclear weapons and opened Europe to Iranian markets. Trump left the agreement even though all parties agreed Iran was following the agreement....
IBM Announcement Proves the Blockchain Has Officially Gone Mainstream
by James Holbrooks | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In January, tech giant IBM was able to happily report to investors that after 22 consecutive quarters — nearly six years — of declining revenue growth, the company saw gains in the last quarter of 2017. In a news...
Why Good News Was Bad News for the Market
by Eric Schuler | Feb 6, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
Over the last two trading days (2/2 and 2/5), the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost more than 1,800 points, or about 7%. Meanwhile, the S&P has lost 173 points, or more than 6%. These sharp downward moves have many people looking for an explanation. No big...
Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies Are Capitalists
by Randall Holcombe | Jan 24, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
For most of human history, mankind’s standard of living remained perilously close to a bare subsistence level. Then, a few hundred years ago, capitalism brought with it the Industrial Revolution that has generated unprecedented economic progress. Capitalism is by far...
How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized
by Per Bylund | Aug 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Throughout history, the state has justified itself on the grounds that it is necessary to protect us from others whose habits and beliefs — we are meant to believe — are dangerous. For millennia, this fiction was easy to maintain because most people interacted so...
Alarming Signals From Chinese Debts Markets Flash Red
by Mike Swanson | Jun 22, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OUqQoO8iE There is something very alarming going on with the Chinese debt markets that pretty much guarantees that China is going to tip into a bear market in its stock market and have an economic slowdown. Something similar is...
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Professors, W. Post Call Out NYT for Oct 7 Mass-Rape Hoax
Another disgrace for the Charlie Savage Times.
Israel’s Amazing Feat
Israel has accomplished quite a feat: its crimes against the people of Gaza are of such a large scale that they make Hamas's Oct. 7 crimes look small.
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...
A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.
US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine
Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...
The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age
The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...