A Spanish tourist from Barcelona sitting quietly with his wife on a bench in City Hall Park yesterday was bashed in the head with a hammer by a crazed Brooklyn man. The Spanish tourist, Hugo Alejandro, suffered a fractured skull and is in stable condition. So here I sit, the simple serf that I am waiting … Read more
A succinct and eloquent summarization on why bailouts are the most Anti-American thing possible. Thank you Max. . Like this post? Donate bitcoins: 35DBUbbAQHTqbDaAc5mAaN6BqwA2AxuE7G Follow me on Twitter.
From the UK’s Telegraph: Michael Foreman, 48, fell from a fifth-floor balcony in the members’ bar area of the gallery on the South Bank last Tuesday evening. The banker, who lived in Grays, Essex, with his wife Janet, was reported missing the day before he died. Police are not treating the incident as suspicious. … Read more
This half hour interview from 1958 of Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, is incredibly powerful and prophetic. He warns us all, so many decades ago, that the biggest threat to the West is a “soft dictatorship,” where as a result of increasingly sophisticated propaganda and drugs, people would actually learn to love … Read more
Good thing they put fluoride in the water supply all over the United States of America, including here in Boulder where I live. In a study published July 20 online in Environmental Health Perspectives, a US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ journal, the researchers found, amongst other things that: The children in high fluoride … Read more
So this morning, I woke up to an email forward from someone that used to be a client. The forward was an anti-gold rant from a sell-side (Wall Street) broker who will remain unnamed. The piece was so biased and ridiculous I took the time to write a somewhat lengthy response. I am not going … Read more
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to … Read more
Poor little billionaire mayor of NYC, Mike Bloomberg, is at it again! Clearly he couldn’t handle the heat he got for using the tragedy in the state of Colorado (where I happen to actually live) to push his anti-gun agenda. So how does a megalomaniac cry baby respond? By throwing a temper tantrum of course. … Read more
Eugene Kaspersky. I had heard the name before, but never really read much about him until I came across Wired magazine’s excellent article of a couple days ago. This guy is no piker. He is one of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen and runs a cyber-security company called Kaspersky Labs. This is major corporation with tentacles that … Read more
While I was at Freedom Fest in Vegas, I was able to meet Dan Amerduri of Future Money Trends for the first time. We also had a chance to record an in-person interview, which is the first time I have done that format. We cover all the bases in this one, but the main message … Read more