The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures. By John Robb HOW TO THRIVE (ECONOMICALLY) AS THINGS FALL APART Posted: 20 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT The most likely scenario for the next decade starts with the resumption of global economic depression (D2). Economies shrink. Wealth …
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How long is your long run? The bank robber may have a long run of just thirty minutes. Stealing money today appears worth it because tomorrow is just too far away to consider. There are organizations and nations that have been around for hundreds of years and expect to be around for another thousand. They …
D2 SCENARIO I gave a little talk at a financial conference (Casey Research) that included the following very simple economic scenario: Oil prices are going up (inexorably). China + Peak Oil + Financial diversification. Oil doesn’t stop going up until GDP goes down. It’s an inexorable force until then. The US middle class is broken. …
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JOURNAL: Ding Dong Osama’s Dead Too little too late. A couple of trillion $$ and ten years late. Too little in that we got a corpse instead of a captive, when there was an opportunity to take him alive (or “mostly dead” if you get the reference). In all, we got more of a PR …
Ron Paul Paul’s Greatest, Most Daring Book Yet A. Maheshwari April 19, 2011 Ron Paul continues the noble tradition of founders and thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Burke, James Burnham and Patrick Buchanan in social-political conditions of the 21st Century. The book is written in lucid, vital and free flowing style without any convoluted …
JOURNAL: The Education Bubble Peter Thiel (Paypal and other ventures) has been making some waves for his position that higher education in the US is the next bubble. In short, he’s right. Given what we now have available in terms of tools, it should be possible to get an Ivy league education for $20 a …
JOURNAL: Oil >$100 Crunch time ahead (again)? The last time the price of oil topped $100 a barrel for an extended period, we ended up in a global financial meltdown. Is this time any different? Not much. All of the excessively financial leverage and fraudelent derivative wealth we had during the last melt down is …
