Pick Your Poison

Joel S. Hirschhorn One of the hardest truths to accept is that for most sources of pain hitting humans there seems to be nothing effective for government to do. Nowadays, those of us who do not gobble various distractions but work to stay connected to reality see two dreadful conditions. Nature seems mad as hell. [...]

What I have been afraid to blog about: The ESF and Its History_Part 1

Financial Repression: A Sheep Shearing Instruction Manual

Daniel Amerman Overview “Financial Repression” is currently a hot buzzword in the global economic community, and its effects are even worse than it sounds. Like other recent economic buzzwords such as “monetary sterilization” and “quantitative easing”, the average person will never understand the meaning, if they hear the phrase at all. That is too bad, [...]

This Is No Double Dip

Vox Day “The Great Depression 2.0 is what is presently developing, although due to a reactive wave of positive social mood, statistical obfuscation, and understandable denial, it will take about a year for the consensus opinion to cycle through the various scenarios in descending order of optimism before the grim reality finally becomes apparent to [...]