1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (166+ words) You know about the missing trillions, right? You know, the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon’s coffers that was announced to the public on September 10, 2001, and then never mentioned again? …Of course, if that IS your understanding of the missing trillions…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (839+ words) International Man: Investors tend to chase whatever is most fashionable at the moment. Where do you see important investment opportunities developing today that most people are overlooking because they aren’t exciting or widely discussed yet? What’s interesting this time around…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (215+ words) Peter opens by taking aim at the endless parade of economic statistics that dominate headlines and move markets, despite being unreliable at best: From there, Peter turns to Trump’s obsession with low interest rates, unpacking why the president’s nostalgia for…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (151+ words) Scott Bessent boasting “I am the house” and trying to talk down the dollar is the classic hubris of a central planner. As Martin Armstrong points out, we saw this exact political vanity with the 1985 Plaza Accord—and the market…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1732+ words) “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (363+ words) Writes Bill Madden: What we are experiencing is the logical conclusion of an economic cycle where a relatively few super-rich families own and control everything. The wealth transfer from the people to these wealthy rulers has been present since our…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (417+ words) For the life of me, I just cannot understand why anyone would choose serfdom over freedom. After all, we’ve been given only one life to live. Wouldn’t it be better to live that one life in freedom rather than serfdom?...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (216+ words) Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn’t matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn’t matter if there is a written constitution or not. All political institutions—and certainly every sovereign state—are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (768+ words) When you look at present day America 2.0, you almost have to marvel at the depth of the unfairness, injustice, and criminality all around us. As I’ve said so many times, there is nothing accidental about it. None of the randomness…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (384+ words) The driver pulls off Interstate 80 at exit 234, expecting the routine of a familiar truck stop. The digital price display is dark. A single sheet of printer paper hangs behind the glass, taped at the corners, marked in black Sharpie: NO…...