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October 13, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at the Daily Bell: By the time your children inherit your money, they may have spent decades making the decisions you hoped that money would help with. Their education is finished. They’ve chosen where to live, and their own ...
October 13, 2026
Originally posted by Quoth the Raven at his substack: If you were looking for evidence that the United States was seriously considering revaluing its gold reserves, or potentially moving toward some form of gold-linked monetary system, the appointment of Judy S ...
October 09, 2026
Summary The speaker argues Napoleon is the most important figure to study in the age of AI agents, and that his work habits, drawn from Andrew Roberts’ biography and others, show how a modern CEO or founder should operate. Core ideas include extreme compartme ...
October 09, 2026
Originally posted by Daniel Lacalle at Mises.org: In 2021, The Economist ran an entire number hailing “The Return of Big Government” as the end of the so-called—but inexistent in practice—”austerity” paradigm and the evidence that more spending and ...
October 09, 2026
Originally posted by Jonathan Turley at the Rutherford Institute: French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell this week. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. This week, he declared ...
October 09, 2026
Originally posted by Matt Woflson at the Libertarian Institute: To get from Miami to the August fundraiser for Angie Nixon’s primary campaign for U.S. Senate at a Palestinian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, the fastest route was I-95 to the Florida Turnpike. T ...
October 07, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at Mises.org: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Social Security Administration now estimate that the Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to run out of reserves in 2032 under current law. Or, put ...
October 04, 2026
Originally posted by Lora Karch at the Libertarian Institute: The same campaign that’s reportedly weakening Iran is also indirectly strengthening China’s economic and strategic position in the Middle East. Israel and the United States’ efforts to eliminat ...
October 04, 2026
Originally posted by Thorsten Polleit at Mises.org: The world’s highest per-capita incomes are found in small political units—such as Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Singapore, and the Cayman Islands. Economically, the finding is easy ...
September 29, 2026
Guest post from Shanmuganathan N, author of RIP: USD: The US 10-year Treasury has been rising at an unprecedented pace since the start of this decade. From an all-time low of 0.32% in March 2020, it is at 5.22% as of Sep 2026. While such a pace of increa ...
September 29, 2026
Originally posted by Mark Thornton on Mises.org: Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and famed investor Stanley Druckenmiller worked for George Soros during his famous coup of the UK pound crisis back in 1992. Druckenmiller has since gone on to be an ...
September 25, 2026
Summary Thompson argues that government bond yields are rising in lockstep across the US, Europe, Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia to 20 to 30 year highs, and that rolling over record debt loads (near the highest debt to GDP outside wartime) at these rates c ...
September 25, 2026
Originally posted by Per Bylund at the Mises Institute: Uncertainty is on the rise again. At least in terms of social science research, where uncertainty is getting renewed attention. This is about time, since uncertainty is an ever-present problem that ...
September 25, 2026
Originally posted by Nomi Prins on her substack: In August, investors poured $18 billion into gold-backed exchange-traded funds. That was the second-largest monthly inflow in the history of gold ETFs. Total holdings reached an all-time high of 4,189 tonnes, whi ...
September 22, 2026
Originally posted by Quoth the Raven on his substack: At some point, probably sooner than most people think, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is going to hit 100,000. And when it does, you can already picture the scene. It’ll be like every major milestone the ...
September 22, 2026
Originally posted by Nolan Denaro at the Libertarian Institute: The Republican midterm convention was recently held in Dallas. If that sounds strange, your instincts are correct. Usually, the two major political parties hold their national conventions in ...
September 22, 2026
By Matt Morgan, The Daily Bell Money is the easiest thing a family can lose, and even easier to pass to your children and grandchildren. But the skill that made the money is much harder to hand down, and it is worth far more. A Japanese temple builder sp ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.US: This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group In recent months I’ve been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Conner O’Keeffe at the Mises Institute: Calls to regulate the artificial intelligence (AI) sector have reached a fever pitch over the last week. Fearmongering about the prospects of a totally unregulated AI industry has been around as ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at the Mises Institute: The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced that it will increase the target federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.0 percent. This comes after nine months of the FOM ...
September 14, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan at TheDailyBell.com: What will your grandchildren inherit from you besides whatever money remains? Maybe a house, some savings, and a few things they will keep because they belonged to you. But will they know how to earn a living when a j ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Quoth the Raven on his substack: It was reported yesterday that the Netherlands just shifted approximately 86 tonnes of its gold reserves from New York and Ottawa to London, explicitly citing “increasing geopolitical unrest” and the n ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at Mises.org: Bond yields are ripping today, with the 10-year climbing above 4.9% and at the highest level since 2007. Meanwhile, the 30-year yield has risen above 5.3 percent, the highest level seen since 2002. There are man ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Frank Landymore at Futurism.com: The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ finan ...
September 08, 2026
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: For more than a century, oil powered the global economy. It moved cars, ships, and aircraft. It fed modern farming and made mass production possible. Nations that controlled reliable oil supplies gaine ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Gary Tanishian at his blog Notes from the Rabbit Hole: Operation Twist 1.0 was a stroke of pure (evil) genius by Ben Bernanke 15 years ago, and two modern day Wizards may be trying to engineer something similar today “Sanitize” B ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Jordan Roy-Byrne at The Daily Gold: The bottom is well behind us. The more important question now is what comes next for Gold and gold stocks. There is a key development taking place beneath the surface. Gold stocks are outperforming Gold n ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Ron Paul at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity: Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Noland Denaro at the Libertarian Institute: It has been accepted for months that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was instrumental in convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that war with Iran was a good idea. In February, The New ...
September 01, 2026
Editor’s Note: The ratio introduced in Prins blog, below, is interesting. The United States produces about 680,000 tonnes of primary aluminum a year, while China produces 43 million. Canada alone supplies more than half of what America imports, which show ...
September 01, 2026
Originally posted by John Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.“ —Theodore Roosevelt What began public ...
September 01, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at Mises.org: Flock cameras, and the online surveillance network behind them, offer many ways for law enforcement officials, and other government bureaucrats, to abuse their access to information about the personal lives of the ...
August 28, 2026
Originally posted by Angelo Monaco at The Libertarian Institute: I remain amused at the outrage expressed over the revelations from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary and his behavior in front of a U.S. Senate committee. After all, Dr. Fauci fulfilled his role in exac ...
August 28, 2026
Originally posted by Connor O’Keeffe at Mise.org: Recently, Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to just 33 percent, the lowest of his presidency. Last week, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll exposed one reason for this drop: most Americans believe that ...
August 26, 2026
By Matt Morgan, The Daily Bell On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood at a podium and declared economic D-Day against Iran. The campaign is named Operation Economic Outcast, and a mission statement to match: Sever “every economic lifelin ...
August 24, 2026
Originally posted by Frank Landymore at Futurism: Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is struggling to keep his ahead above water. With the backlash against his company’s AI-powered surveillance network reaching a boiling point, Langley tried to reason with his ...
August 24, 2026
Originally posted by Lance D Johnson at NaturalNews.com: In a decisive rebuke of executive overreach, a federal judge in Manhattan has dismantled the Trump administration’s sweeping policy that suspended immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries ...
August 21, 2026
Originally posted by Karen Kwiatkowski at her substack: It’s premature, but Trump may be following my advice on Iran. All I did was lay out a path of least resistance, and in my experience, this is the most likely path followed by man and state. T ...
August 20, 2026
Originally posted by John & Nisha Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute: “Electric shock has long been a common method of inflicting torture or other forms of ill-treatment worldwide. While electric shocks are sometimes inflicted using makeshift ...
August 20, 2026
Originally posted by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: Add all this up and what we’re hyper-hurriedly “manufacturing” is an automated army of self-cloaking digital sociopaths. Since the status quo is characterized by self-serving PR, misdi ...
August 17, 2026
Originally posted by Daniel Lacalle on his blog: Americans are falling into the socialism trap by not realizing that solving big government problems with an even bigger one is dangerous. Many blame capitalism for their affordability problems, when the true cau ...
August 17, 2026
Originally posted by George Ford Smith at Mises.org: The costs of war are vast and horrific. Most people know this, which raises the question of why the US government seemingly can’t live without it. Is it simply a matter of applied Keynesianism, that of spen ...
August 17, 2026
By Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: Voting, we are told, is choice. It’s a sacred choice… The kind men died for. And because it is sacred choice, the system built on it must be accountable to you, the chooser. That is the belief. Hold i ...
August 15, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at the Mises Institute: As Trump’s “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth demands a fifty-percent increase to the war budget—topping an eye watering $1.5 trillion—it may be instructive to remember that war spending has alway ...
August 15, 2026
Originally posted by Patrick Pillow at the Libertarian Institute: With Cuba seemingly becoming the next focus for the Trump administration, it is worth looking into previous efforts by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the countr ...
August 14, 2026
Originally posted by Jayant Bhandari at Lew Rockwell.com: Suppose a piece of equipment malfunctions and you take it to a technician in India. He will probably tell you to return a few days later. When you do, you can be reasonably certain that it will no ...
August 13, 2026
Originally posted by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: Most of AI isn’t productive, it’s just another form of consumption. Like GDP (Gross Domestic Product), economic Productivity is an unquenchable spring of delusions, delusions being pu ...
August 11, 2026
Originally posted by JD Hall at Insight to Incite: What they call “capitalism” increasingly isn’t capitalism at all. It is a bastardized system of privatized profits and socialized losses, where multinational corporations demand free markets when t ...
August 11, 2026
Originally posted by Wanjiru Njoya at the Mises Institute: In a recent controversy over ideological indoctrination at the Smithsonian museum, one member of staff mockingly said, “I didn’t realize all my colleagues were Marxists.” The implication i ...
August 11, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: Ask a defender of the current “democratic” structure of governance where its authority comes from and the answer arrives on schedule: The consent of the governed – votes! It is the phras ...
