Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

How Change Happens

Feb 6th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
My brother is teaching a semester in London, and he casually video Skyped me last week to show me around his apartment, which is small but charming. I reciprocated by hauling up the cover of the e-book I am reading, and shared my desktop to show a YouTube performance of ...read more

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Elections and the Illusions of Choice

Jan 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The political season has unleashed its predictable frenzy, much to delight of people who make a living off it. But to what end? There are only two types of politicians who end up holding office, wrote H.L. Mencken: "first, glorified mob-men who genuinely believe what the mob believes, and secondly, ...read more

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Politics, Paper Money, and the United States Entrepreneurial Culture

Oct 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
We inadvertently stepped into "it" with readers of The 5 this month. The background: On Inauguration Day 2009, 2 million people converged on Washington, D.C. "Two million people don't gather in one place unless things are really good, or really bad," we observed that day. There is a fine line between the ...read more

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The Gold Standard Cannot Survive Political Logic

Jul 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Publisher Steve Forbes, speaking to Human Events predicted "a return to the gold standard by the United states within the next five years". Why? Because it would "help the nation solve a variety of economic, fiscal, and monetary ills". The article continues: Such a move would help to stabilize the value of ...read more

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Governments Are Just Monopolies on Force

Dec 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitable he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is ...read more

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Climate and the Fate of Humanity

Dec 28th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics, Technology
L: [Phone rings. It’s Doug Casey, whose gravelly, "Lobo, let’s talk!" always makes me smile.] Hi Doug! What’s on your mind? Doug: Global warming. People like my fanatical neighbors here in Aspen seem perfectly willing to undo centuries of progress because they are completely delusional about global warming. The People’s Republic ...read more

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Detroit Real Estate: Down and Out at Market Value

Oct 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Detroit must be feeling like a streetwalker far past her prime. Some 9,000 homes and lots went up for tax foreclosure auction in the American symbol of industrial urban failure…yet 80% of them remain unsold despite a minimum bid of $500. How the world turns. Once Detroit was a dynamic city, the urban ...read more

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The Political Phase and the Death of Nations

Aug 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
The United States is in the third and fatal stage of a great country’s life-cycle – the political stage. In this stage, money and power migrate from the financial community to the political community. The politicians get away with taking trillions out of the productive economy and spending them on ...read more

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Political Intolerance

May 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’ve heard a lot lately about how we need to be tolerant of one another’s political views.  I hear this, I suspect, because I’m not tolerant of most people’s politics.  I’m told we can have a good argument about our positions on the issues, but when we’re done, we must ...read more

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Where’s the Party?

Jan 30th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
I'll admit it. I'm considered somewhat of a dork among my friends. It's not because I'm a computer wizard (far from it), nor is it because I'm addicted to video games involving animated fighting of fantasy creatures. It isn't because I'm a champion Dungeons & Dragons player, a widely published author ...read more

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