First, Quit Pretending...

Even the federal government's official data shows that price growth is well above the Federal Reserve's two-percent target. In fact, price inflation is now at multi-year highs, and there is good reason to think this will continue.

The Coming Return Of Commodity-Backed Money Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.com, This piece is as much a mental exploration as a fact-gathering exercise. Let’s begin with the problem. Bank failures come together with economic failures. So trusting banks is a problem, but furthermore, trusting fiat currency is also a problem. This is on top of the issue that moving capital from one bank to another is increasingly fraught with headaches. AML and KYC have become weaponised, and the global surveillance system is tightening its grip. So movement of capital, treasury, and of course...

While The Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds The Digital Police State Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” - George Orwell, 1984 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus - cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle - the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is...