Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the claim that America must now turn its attention toward China as the new threat of global hegemony. War hawks will cite China's growing economic supremacy, many alleged human rights abuses and supposed imperialistic designs on its...
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7/19/21 Peter McCormack on the Bitcoin Revolution Taking the World by Storm
by Scott Horton | Jul 19, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter McCormack discusses the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin. The most important news is that El Salvador moved to make Bitcoin legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar, which McCormack says is huge for its viability as a mainstream currency. Bitcoin...
Stagflation is Coming, Prepare Accordingly
by Daniel Lacalle | Jun 29, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The United States retail sales and jobless claims weakness, significantly below estimates, coincides with the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in history. Something is not right when these figures come significantly below estimates in an environment of massive...
Joe Biden’s Fake Economic Recovery
by Daniel Lacalle | May 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The University of Michigan consumer confidence index fell to 82.8 in May, from 88.3 in April. More importantly, the current conditions index slumped to 90.8, from 97.2 and the expectations index declined to 77.6, from 82.7. Hard data also questions the strength of the...
In Developed World, America Has the Least Trained, Most Deadly Police Force
by Matt Agorist | May 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Ever wonder why cops yell “quit resisting” as they beat a person who’s not resisting? Or why they shoot people who pose no threat? Maybe the answer is right in front of us. Many folks who are given authorization to use deadly force and authority to kidnap and cage...
How the Federal Reserve Inflated Away a Fourth of Your Wealth in 15 Years
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 17, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
As Americans warily eye new data showing both consumer and producer price inflation heating up beyond expectations, few of them realize the Federal Reserve has an explicit goal to relentlessly degrade the purchasing power of their savings. The Fed weakens the...
What High Interest Rates Mean for a Debtor Nation
by Doug French | Apr 5, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
If there is anything Wall Street banks crave is relief. Primarily relief from the potential for failure and, next, relief from holding much, if any, equity capital. These banks like their capital tiny and their profits huge. Losses should be socialized. After all, we...
What I Told the Texas State Legislature
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2021 | Blog
Last week, myself and a great group of antiwar veterans, led by BringOurTroopsHome.us testified before a committee of the Texas Senate in favor of new Defend the Guard legislation proposed by Rep. Bryan Slaton. (Admittedly, my statement was not so well received as a...
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Woke Club Rules
The anti-human creed of woketopia appears to be on the ropes. First Rule of Woke Club: you have zero accountability for any personal failure or rake-stomping you do. Second Rule of Woke Club: whatever skin suit you wear, your core being is victim-hood. Third Rule of...
The Worker as Free Person
"In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee’s lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price. Of course, like every other buyer an employer too can...
Defund Government Money to Think Tanks That Don’t Think
A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My...
Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
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