Since the original voice crying in the wilderness 2,000 years ago, there have been many others. Some, such as John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, have had variations on [...]
Americans, we are repeatedly told by the rest of the world, are idiots for not adopting the metric system. And perhaps our retention of American customary [...]
Governments have always lied, and since Machiavelli they’ve been able to excuse it as necessary, but only the most naïve observer could fail to notice the [...]
During the hyperinflation of 1921-23 in Germany, prices of food in a restaurant could rise several thousand papiermarks (paper marks) in a single day. People [...]
In the markets, there is a ton of information. An analyst’s job is to separate the wheat from the chaff. And there’s a lot of chaff. The reasons for this [...]
Advocates of Modern Monetary Theory, like their Marxist brethren, are fond of saying that debt doesn’t matter. “We owe it to ourselves,” they say, which [...]
The problem with sirens is that they always sound so good. Not the sirens on emergency vehicles, rather the kind that Odysseus had to deal with. With their [...]
Yeats was not much of a theologian, but as a wordsmith he was beyond superb. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the [...]
Every nation has its problems, but those of Israel arouse more passions than just about any other country. Doubtless there are many people in the world who [...]
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” The saying is usually attributed to Yogi Berra, though there is currently a cottage [...]
One of the most helpful and thoughtful analysts writing an electronic newsletter these days has recently pooh-poohed the buying of gold. He’s proof, perhaps, [...]
Truth vs. falsehood, signal vs. noise, gold vs. tailings or dross, wheat vs. chaff or weeds, and the list goes on. Separating the important from the [...]
