Come the next real war, and the US military will probably get whupped…badly. It is too larded with fat-duff careerists and expensive, over-sophisticated weapons to be an effective fighting force. And its standards are too…
America is doomed by human nature and the life cycle of empires. People are always greedy…for power, money, and status. As an empire matures, the worst of them capture the government…and use it for their…
The ‘unicorns’ — companies with new ways to use the new technology. Though their business models were unproven, they still were bid up to a billion dollars, and more. They believed that the route to…
What a pity. The 21st century was meant to bring the US to a level of perfection never before achieved by humans. So far it has been a dud.
The numbers show a clear decline in Argentina’s money – the peso. One US dollar would bring you 30 Argentine pesos a year ago. Now, it’s worth 60. But as we saw last week, although…
The US empire reached its first peak on July 20, 1969. That was the day an American astronaut stepped out onto the moon. Even today, more than 50 years later, the whole project seems almost…
Mr Trump may have truly ‘shattered the mentality of American decline’, as he claimed in a speech to Congress on Tuesday night. But the numbers, for what they are worth, tell a different story…
Maybe Mr Trump really has turned it around. Maybe Mr Trump really is a stable genius, after all.
‘China Plans Stimulus,’ says the lead headline at Bloomberg this morning. And let’s turn to our colleagues at Stansberry Research for a quick look at yesterday’s market action: Chinese stimulus continues to rally markets.
America’s Inflationary Era got underway on August 15, 1971, when the US introduced a new currency, not backed by gold or anything else. This was the First Phase, from 71 to 81, when inflation went…