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May 30, 2026
Originally posted by Sako Garabedian at Mises.org: Consider what Appalachia gave America before America returned the favor in pill form. The region supplied the coal that powered two industrial revolutions and two world wars. It supplied, per capita, mor ...
May 30, 2026
Summary McMaken walks through Murray Rothbard’s 1965 essay “Anatomy of the State” (first published in the Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought), arguing that the state is not “us” and not a manifestation of the popular will, bu ...
May 29, 2026
Summary The hosts argue that the Ontario Provincial Police (and the RCMP and Windsor police) have been secretly deploying phone and computer spyware—rebranded with the “Orwellian” euphemism ODIT, or “on-device investigative tools”—th ...
May 28, 2026
Originally posted by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we’re told it is: we don’t experience Progress, we experience Anti-Progress. My five most recent essays ...
May 26, 2026
Originally posted by Daisy Luther at The Organic Prepper.com: When I first heard the term “energy lockdown” I was surprised and uneasy. I wasn’t quite sure what such a thing would entail but I didn’t have to go very far back into my memory banks ...
May 26, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: The “little guys” have become bargaining chips for peace between the United States and China. In May, Donald Trump flew to Beijing and stood beside Xi Jinping while Xi praised the Make America Great ...
May 26, 2026
Mark Jeftovic argues that the public backlash against Palantir’s 22-point “manifesto” (over 35 million views) was misplaced because the surveillance-state technocracy it describes was always inevitable, and that companies invoking visceral pub ...
May 26, 2026
Summary European voters overwhelmingly oppose mass migration, with French pollster IFOP finding 70% of French voters who have an opinion believe the native population is being “replaced” by migrants and 90% calling it bad, yet governments are moving ...
May 24, 2026
Summary Doug Casey and the host argue the US economy is rolling over for the average person (consumer sentiment at an all-time low since tracking began in 1952, record student loan and credit card delinquencies) while the stock market sits at “double bubb ...
May 23, 2026
Summary The hosts analyze hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s response to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “pied-à-terre” tax video, which singled out Griffin’s $238 million penthouse to announce an annual fee on luxury properties over ...
May 22, 2026
Every American war of the last seventy years arrives wrapped in the same promise: A short, clean operation that will leave the target weaker, the region safer, and the home front untouched. The strikes on Iran have already broken all three terms of that promise ...
May 22, 2026
Kevin Warsh was sworn in this week as the most powerful central banker on earth, and the markets greeted him with a worldwide spike in government bond yields. Washington will read this as a problem of personnel, a question of whether the new man will cut rates ...
May 22, 2026
There is a recipe going around for homemade laundry detergent. Three ingredients, fifteen minutes, a few pennies per load. The version below comes wrapped in a lot of alarm about carcinogens and supply-chain collapse, and you can take or leave the chemistry. Wh ...
May 21, 2026
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May 20, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken, Executive Editor at Mises.org: The AP reports that the pro-freedom Ron Paul disciple Congressman Thomas Massie has been defeated by Ed Gallrein. For years, Trump has called for Massie’s removal for Congress in respon ...
May 20, 2026
Summary The speaker argues that Florida is the strangest and most distinctly American place in the country, a state defined by an outlaw “to hell with it” spirit, a relentless hustler mentality, and a paradoxical hatred of government despite being l ...
May 19, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: The Kentucky Fourth District primary has been described as a fight between Donald Trump and Thomas Massie, as a referendum on the Iran war, as a test of the Israel lobby, and as the most expensive House r ...
May 19, 2026
Summary The two hosts argue that the Canadian government is building a surveillance and censorship apparatus to eliminate online anonymity and criminalize dissent, citing newly confirmed testimony from the deputy sergeant-at-arms that Parliament runs a “v ...
May 18, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: Bill C-22, the lawful access act tabled in the Canadian Parliament on March 12, 2026, will force every Canadian telecom and digital service provider to build surveillance capabilities into their ne ...
May 16, 2026
If there is one job that no Austrian Economist will take up at this juncture, it would be that of the Federal Reserve Chair. The road ahead seems to be set in stone, and in a society that has been sold the idea that “printing currency units is a panacea to al ...
May 14, 2026
Summary Connor O’Keeffe argues the recent progressive push to tax the rich, spearheaded by Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed New York City tax on second homes over $5 million, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s viral video claiming it would raise $500 mill ...
May 14, 2026
Summary Keith Knight rebuts a viral X claim that “the United States did not intervene in World War II until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor” by walking through multiple documented acts of US intervention preceding December 7, 1941, includi ...
May 14, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: On October 20, 2024, the Mayor of Beijing held two private meetings at the Annual Conference of the Financial Street Forum. The first was with Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock. The se ...
May 14, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: The Trump administration has spent the past year reasserting the Monroe Doctrine. The November 2025 National Security Strategy names a “Trump Corollary” to it. Trump himself has called it the “Donroe Doctr ...
May 14, 2026
Originally posted by Joseph Solis-Mullen at the Libertarian Institute: When President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing yesterday for his summit with Xi Jinping, much of the American foreign policy establishment framed the meeting through the familiar lens ...
May 14, 2026
Originally posted by Ron Paul at the Mises Institute: Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a ...
May 09, 2026
Summary Douglas Macgregor argues the corruption in the Trump White House exceeds even Biden-era levels, with New York money moguls and the Trump family profiting enormously from the Iran war catastrophe while American living standards fall and inflation rises. ...
May 08, 2026
Originally posted by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.us: Why is it that every time a leftist tries to kill conservatives, it’s immediately called a “false flag”? And why is every single person who dares to question the false flag narrative attacked by ...
April 16, 2026
The 5% That Changes Nothing The national benchmark home price in Canada fell 4.8% year-over-year as of early 2026. The Bank of Canada has cut its policy rate from 5% to 2.25% since late 2023. Meanwhile, home sales in Toronto hit a 20-year low. By the standard ...
April 16, 2026
An 18-Year Payback Period for a One-Year Program The federal government is spending $1.5 billion on early retirement packages for public servants. The promised return on that investment is $82 million a year in savings, mostly from reduced pension contributions ...
April 06, 2026
Probably. Read On. The summer of 2026 (June – August) promises to be one for the history books. The events ahead could easily rival those of Oct 1929 – a stock market crash, which was followed by more than 15 years of economic stagnation and a decline in li ...
April 02, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, The Daily Bell.com: In 1885, Richard Ely founded the American Economic Association. He was 31 years old, freshly back from Germany with a PhD, and he had a clear purpose. The AEA was not a scholarly society. It was a lobbying oper ...
April 02, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: No one asked you whether the United States should go to war with Iran. No one asked your neighbor. There was no debate, no declaration, no public accounting of what it would cost or who would pay. There was a de ...
March 25, 2026
Originally posted by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: The Democratic Party has a young men problem. After getting shellacked in 2024, the party’s 2028 hopefuls have apparently settled on a strategy: radical vulnerability. Pennsylvania’s Josh ...
March 24, 2026
The last few weeks have been “different” to say the least. Just to list a few obvious ones: The US and Israel made an unprovoked attack on Iran. By the admissions of Trump’s own staff, Iran did not pose any material threat to the US at this point. More im ...
March 12, 2026
The phrase “conspiracy theorist” was invented in 1967 by the CIA to discredit people asking inconvenient questions about the Kennedy assassination. Look it up. It’s in the FOIA documents. So the next time someone uses that label to end a conversation, rem ...
March 12, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan at The Daily Bell: Okay, let’s see. Congress is fighting two wars… One in Iran, one on the budget… and losing both. So naturally, the logical next step is to quietly slip automatic draft registration into the National ...
January 30, 2026
Guest post from Shan N. originally posted on Dollarcollapse.com: Before getting into what a $5000/ oz gold price means for the society around us, it is probably useful to explain where gold prices are headed over the next 3 to 4 years. As I have written ...
December 04, 2025
Originally posted by Shan N. on Dollarcollapse.com: Let me start with an “AI” summary of the article, since that’s the most likely step for readers. The US Federal Reserve, through its ultra-loose monetary policies, has inflated a series of asset b ...
November 17, 2025
Originally posted by Shan N. at Dollarcollapse.com: While almost all market participants have an opinion on the value of Bitcoin, or the lack thereof, the most vocal proponents for both sides of the argument have come from the same ideological community of Lais ...
November 10, 2025
Written by Shanmuganathan Nagasundaram at Dollarcollapse.com: Gold’s rise over the last couple of years has been meteoric to say the least. While the media has largely overlooked the move, there have been occasional discussions on why the uncertainty surround ...
October 18, 2025
Given the meteoric rise in gold prices over the last few months and the beating bonds have taken over the last 2 years, “the Dollar Debasement” trade has been in vogue of late. But in some sense, both the DJIA and Gold have been Dollar Debasement trades sin ...
October 08, 2025
Originally posted on Dollarcollapse.com: There has been a relentless rise in gold prices over the last three years. From a bottom of around $1640 in October 2022 to $4000/oz today, Gold has delivered a 35% CAGR over the last three years. Most analysts re ...
July 10, 2025
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: Social Media is exposing and amplifying the affects of the wealth gap. Here’s where it comes from: via @Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com It’s not the kind of cosplay you’d ...
July 09, 2025
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: Gold belongs to its owners, but the BRICS alliance effort to crush the US dollar is just an agreement. The fact that “together” they own a lot of gold doesn’t mean much at all if differences can ...
June 06, 2025
Originally posted by Connor O’Keeffe at Mises.org: So far, in his second term, Donald Trump’s biggest headaches haven’t come from the Democrats or his fellow Republicans. Nor have they come from the groups that were his biggest enemies in his first te ...
June 06, 2025
Summary Historical Myths and Narratives The “righteous cause myth” portraying the Civil War as a moral crusade to abolish slavery is a distortion of historical record and has been destructive for the world. The “proposition n ...
June 06, 2025
Originally posted by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.Us: Where have all the globalists gone? Yes, unfortunately they’re still out there free when they should be rotting in a frozen gulag or fertilizing an unmarked field somewhere. I get that. However, if you ...
June 05, 2025
Originally posted by Paul Craig Roberts at IPE: Now that some total idiot in the Trump regime has green-lighted an attack on Russian strategic forces, John Helmer raises for Putin Lenin’s question, “What is to be done?” https://johnhelmer.net/wh ...
June 05, 2025
Summary Political Influence on the Fed The Federal Reserve has never been truly independent of political pressures, with officials appointed by the President and subject to changing political whims. A revolving door exists between the Treasury a ...
