Category: Aggregated

For over 6,000 years humans have been consuming flax seeds. Deemed a superfood, flax seeds grow from a plant which produces a beautiful blue flower. This plant can grow in both tropical and subtropical climates. The fruit pod which is grown contains either golden-yellow seeds or brown seeds. Regardless of their color, flax seeds aren’t called superfoods for just any reason – they pack a nutritional punch to boost health. Flax seed nutrition Let’s examine one ounce (three tablespoons) of flax seeds for its nutritional contents. Omega-3 (ALA) 6,338mg Fiber 8g Protein 6g Vitamin B1 31% Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) Manganese 35% RDA Magnesium 30% RDA … Continue reading →

I stood at the top of the mountain And China sang to me In the peaceful haze of harvest time A song of eternity . I thought of time and distance The hardships of history I heard the hope and the hunger When China sang to me… When China sang to me . –        Neil Peart . I have noticed something strange for the last several weeks, and today was prompted to write something about it.  Let me explain. Until about six weeks ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was all Greece all the time.  (The link is to a perpetual list of … Continue reading →

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a lobster boiled alive. It was at a family gathering when I was very young, perhaps five or six years old. One of my aunts calmly picked up a happily wriggling lobster out of an ice chest and dropped it in a pot of boiling water. The lobster flailed a bit and then stopped moving. That incident made a strong impression on me. I think of it whenever I read of a law, court decision, or administrative decision that, while not notable by itself, represents the end – the death – of … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I posted on this website a commentary about how the Republican establishment and its financial backers were trying to repackage the usual GOP hacks as the true outsiders and political mavericks. This transmogrification seemed necessary for the party operators in order to head off the surging candidacy of Donald Trump. Although one can cite other indications of how this is happening, the most telling example of how Jeb Bush is being transformed, has come courtesy of the Koch Brothers. Billionaire supporters of the GOP establishment, Charles and David Koch have not only poured a king’s ransom … Continue reading →

What is currently happening in markets should be no surprise to investors who understand sound money and have been following our risk warnings in the last few years. The world has been living in cloud cuckoo land for so long that unlimited credit at zero percent, hundreds of trillions of dollars of new credit and quadrillions in derivatives were all believed to be real money and assets and part of normality. In the last couple of days we can see how quickly euphoria changes to fear. The Dow went down over 500 points on Friday and started down over 1,000 … Continue reading →

[First published in Inquiry, November 12, 1979.] A half-century ago, America — and then the world — was rocked by a mighty stock-market crash that soon turned into the steepest and longest-lasting depression of all time. It was not only the sharpness and depth of the depression that stunned the world and changed the face of modern history: it was the length, the chronic economic morass persisting throughout the 1930s, that caused intellectuals and the general public to despair of the market economy and the capitalist system. Previous depressions, no matter how sharp, generally lasted no more than a year … Continue reading →