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For better or for worse, our lives are full of stress.  The weather, our jobs, the economy, financial woes and poor health can all contribute to stress.  In addition, for most of us, the biggest stress is simply that there are not enough hours in the day. Add prepping and learning new skills to the mix and life can get dicey. Whatever the reason, many of us are under a relentless cloud of stress that never lets up.  We find ourselves enveloped by an undercurrent of tension that exists as we go about our day, even during normal times.  I … Continue reading →

John Taylor Gatto is a great advocate of home schooling. Three times, he won teacher of the year in New York City. Then he won teacher of the year in New York State. Then he quit teaching. He started writing books on why tax-funded education is a disaster. He wrote a classic book on the history of America’s public schools: The Underground History of American Education. Lew Rockwell posted the chapters on his site. If you would like a free copy, chapter by chapter, click the link. Read more on archive.lewrockwell.com

WASHINGTON DC –  The hostess of our elegant Georgetown dinner party was breathing fire. We had been waiting for over an hour for the guest of honor, renowned journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave. Suddenly, the door burst open and a modestly sized man with a deep tan bowed to our enraged hostess and proclaimed, “a thousand pardons!  I was on the phone to Paris with President Chirac, and I had Henry Kissinger on hold.” That was vintage Arnaud, a mixture of outrageous chutzpah and burnished charm. Even our red-faced hostess had to laugh and forgive his tardiness. De Borchgrave died of … Continue reading →

The trouble with the money printing madness in the Eccles Building is that it generates huge deformations, misallocations and speculative excesses in the financial markets. Eventually these bubbles splatter, as they have twice this century.  The resulting carnage, needless to say, is not small. Combined financial and real estate asset markdowns totaled about $7 trillion after the dotcom bust and $15 trillion during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Yes, the Fed has managed to reflate this cheap money bubble for the third time now, but the certainty that it will splatter once again is not the issue at hand. What gets lost in the … Continue reading →

‘Former US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld has sharply criticized the Obama administration for damaging Washington’s relations with Tel Aviv, saying the relationship is as bad as ever. “The relationship between the United States and […]