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An interesting article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond bubble”: The global bond bubble has ballooned to more than 76 trillion dollars, and interest rates have never been lower in modern history. In fact, 25 percent of all government bonds in Europe actually have a negative rate of return…
For your consideration….. One Man’s Message To Americans – “Start Giving A Damn!” The lives of Americans have become so easy and so secure that we no longer recognize living in a utopia of freedom comes not with costs but with obligations. I find it shocking how often I have people tell me the Constitution…
PANTS ON FIRE…..We Are All Liars (Of Sorts) On some level, we are all phonies, it’s just a matter of whether or not we are good or bad ones. In his new book Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson tells the story of his life as a liar,…
. Most people are in the pursuit of happiness. There are economists who think happiness is the best indicator of the health of a society. We know that money can make you happier, though after your basic needs are met, it doesn’t make you that much happier. But one of the biggest questions is how…
* Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter We have entered into a particularly dismal…
Meet The Secretive Group That Runs The World Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/12/2015 23:03 -0400 Over the centuries there have been many stories, some based on loose facts, others based on hearsay, conjecture, speculation and outright lies, about groups of people who “control the world.” Some of these are partially accurate, others are wildly…
. Women Turn Drought into a Lesson on Sustainability By Zofeen EbrahimReprint | Women in Pakistan fare worse than all their neighbours in terms of resilience to climate change. Credit: Ali Mansoor/IPS KARACHI, Mar 17 2015 (IPS) – When a group of women in the remote village of Sadhuraks in Pakistan’s Thar Desert, some…
Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules, while the rich get even richer — yet this situation doesn’t translate into a winning politics. If anything, the right keeps gaining and the wealthy keep pulling away. How can…
China first delegated the management of gold policy to the People’s Bank by regulations in 1983. This development was central to China’s emergence as a free-market economy following the post-Mao reforms in 1979/82. At that time the west was doing its best to suppress gold to enhance confidence in paper currencies, releasing large quantities…