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New York—Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be the guest speaker. The venue was Carnegie Hall, and I arrived late, having had a tough session at the karate dojo. I was also very dehydrated. Next to me was a beautiful young woman by the name of Aimee, who introduced me to her fiancé, a familiar-looking young man with a friendly manner. I looked at his place card and it read “Rupert Friend.” Nothing. Finally, I asked him whether we knew each other. We did not. Still, the guy looked … Continue reading →

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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) wrote one of the classic books in the libertarian library, The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (1908).  In reading The State I felt an unusual, for me, emotional response as well as intellectual response. This is My Oppenheimer Problem. Oppenheimer puts human existence into stark binary relief. There are two general ways to obtain material needs and luxuries (i.e., wealth), through political means or economic means. The political means immediately or ultimately are based on violence and include all government actors and their subsequent crony capitalists and zombies.  As described succinctly in a Mises Daily, … Continue reading →

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Five strong earthquakes have jolted Asia in the last several days. There have been 16 major earthquakes measuring 6.0 or higher in April alone and nine in the last seven days. The two biggest in this unprecedented wave of serious shakers just happened over the weekend in Ecuador with a mammoth 7.8 earthquake killing at least 77 people and a 7.0 in Kumamoto on Kyushu Island in southern Japan where three large earthquakes in three days have struck killing at least 41 people. Within the last two weeks, the tiny South Pacific island of Vanuatu alone has been hit with five major quakes. Four days … Continue reading →

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Here we are, on the third Boston Marathon since the one we will never forget. Two powerful bombs ripped through the assembled crowd, killing Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, and Martin Richard, and wounding many others. Later, a policeman was shot to death. The images are seared into our memories. So, too, is the extraordinary government response: an American city totally locked down while armored vehicles, helicopters, and police in full combat gear patrolled the streets of greater Boston. Four days after the bombing, the Tsarnaevs were cornered and there was a gun battle. In the end, one young man was … Continue reading →

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People are arguing and fighting. It’s all over the internet and Social Media… Why? It pains me to see you guys going through this again. Have we learned nothing over these last 30 years? Especially over these last 15 or so?  Let me paraphrase my buddy, “Louie” to tell you how it is:  “The US presidency is just like a donut shop; every few years we get a new shop manager of the donut shop, but we NEVER see who owns the donut shop or the parking lot (That’s the big banks, Oil companies and the Military Industrial Complex).  These … Continue reading →

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Money seldom fails, but occasionally, it does. It failed in Germany and Austria 1921-23. It failed in Hungary after World War II. It failed in Zimbabwe in 2008-9, when the rest of the world was in a recession. Here is a famous case of the failure of money: And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land … Continue reading →

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To challenge the US dollar hegemony and increase its power in the global realm of finance, China has a potent gold strategy. Whilst the State Council is preparing itself for the inevitable decay of the current international monetary system, it has firmly embraced gold in its economy. With a staggering pace, the government has developed the Chinese domestic gold market, stimulated private gold accumulation and increased its official gold reserves in order to ensure financial stability and support the internationalisation of the renminbi. “The outbreak of the crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflect the inherent vulnerabilities and … Continue reading →

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