COMMENTARY

What’s Killing the Middle Class? (Part 2)

May 11, 2017 0

What’s Killing the Middle Class? (Part 2) CHARLES HUGH SMITH The Powers That Be are perfectly fine with your transition to proletarian debt-serf. Yesterday (see part 1 here) we covered the usual suspects in the […]

COMMENTARY

What’s Killing the Middle Class? (Part 1)

May 10, 2017 1

What’s Killing the Middle Class? (Part 1) CHARLES HUGH SMITH The rising asymmetry of rewards within our economy has many drivers. We all know the middle class that actually owns capital and wields political influence […]

COMMENTARY

What Nassim Taleb Can Teach Us

May 3, 2017 0

What Nassim Taleb Can Teach Us JEFF DEIST Nassim Nicholas Taleb does not suffer fools gladly. Author of several books including The Black Swan and Antifragile, Taleb (pictured below) is known for his incendiary personality […]

COMMENTARY

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BANKING

April 27, 2017 0

Surely the Government is in control of the country and its supply of money? Surely money is only a symbolic token to facilitate the production, exchange and distribution of goods and services? Not so, say […]

COMMENTARY

Is Euroland on the Verge of Disintegration?

April 25, 2017 0

Is Euroland on Verge of Disintegration? F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL The decision last year by a majority of British voters to exit the European Union was more than a simple vote of the people. The Brexit […]

1 83 84 85 86 87 102