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Merchants of Despair by Bruce S. Thornton A ruling idea of the last two centuries has been materialism: the notion, as arch-materialis...

When your Credit card stops working By Bill Bonner Florida; Nobody knows anything in Florida. They’re all retired down there. They don’...

Merkel, Party Of "Nein" "Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments...

Will German guilt overcome German fiscal responsibility? By Jeff Harding Europe is a fine example of the dangers of governments that...

What has the U.S. won after 30 years of intervention in the Mideast? By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Sixteen months after the United States aba...

Today’s radical anti-Merkel lobby echoes Margaret Thatcher, who also wanted to use Euro structures to neuter wicked Germany. Politicia...

The transformation of wild plants and animals into the foods we eat today is – by far – the single most dramatic experiment in genetic engin...

If It Doesn’t Work - Keep Trying It Until It Does by Bill Buckler Those running the big investment banks and trading floors today bea...

The history of human civilisation has been one of triumph over the limits of nature by John Aziz These gargantuan global conferences whe...

Development 3.0 By J ustin Yifu Lin BEIJING – Until the Industrial Revolution, the world was quite flat in terms of  per capita  income...

Central Planning Going Global By Terence Corcoran The supreme political leaders of the world economy keep meeting and meeting and meet...

Descending into Madness at Supermax A detailed new federal lawsuit alleges chronic abuse and neglect of mentally ill prisoners at Ameri...

Here Is What Happens When The Euro Breaks Up As the following image from   Spiegel summarizes , three things will happen simultaneou...

Europe is heading into a full-scale disaster By Graham Summers You see, the debt problems in Europe are not simply related to Greece. T...

Good as Gold? By Pater Tenebrarum Introductory Remarks As we have often pointed out in these pages, to our mind the euro area crisis...

Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 480 BC By David Galland Burn the Boa...

Boo !!! By Wolf Richter    One thing Greek politicians have taught other European leaders: fear mongering for the purpose of extortion ...

Why It Matters By Peter Lewin With the resurgence of Keynesian economic policy as a response to the current crisis, echoes of past ...

They are taxing themselves to death By Jeorge Giddeon Can the U.S. lead the world back to prosperity? The global economy is lurching t...

Time Means Money By MIKE SHEDLOCK It will be interesting to see how long the coalition in Greece will last after Germany shoots down...