The situation in Tigray is going to be critical to watch because it has the potential to morph, given the other circumstances right now in the entire Sahel region, into a second and far more severe refugee crisis than what hit Europe in 2015 and 2016. This would inevitably propel a rise in nationalism and […]
In the science fiction story The Island of Dr. Moreau, written by H.G. Wells, it discusses essentially the tale of a mad doctor who using genetic therapy and what would later become the microchip, creates a race of creature on an island in the South Pacific that he rules as lord over and through which […]
With increasing regulation either in practice or looming for the common man from many governments, questions about the nature of freedom and the relationship of the rulers to the ruled of society abound. However, now adding to that debate is a new move from the state of Nevada, which wants to modify laws to create […]
Last year, I talked about the danger of the “Trump Stack”, or the COVID stimulus checks that Trump signed into law and that as I warned, likely he U.S. Senate early Friday morning approved a budget resolution that will allow passage of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus stimulus bill and also agreed that it would restrict […]
One of the trends I discussed recently was what seems to be the merging of the technology sector with the industrial sector. In the past it was the “military-industrial” complex, but this term, dated and relevant at the same time it is, not just adds data as a separate bloc into itself, but shows increasingly […]
The COVID pandemic that began in 2019 has been causing economic chaos around the world, and it is not getting better. Without speculating or discussing the details of the pandemic, the fact is that as long as ‘preventative’ measures against the pandemic remain in effect that call for massive economic restrictions, it is going to […]
In a recent move reported on by Bloomberg, the leaders of both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have reached out to Turkey and President Erdogan, hoping to usher in a new period of trade and partnership. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are holding out the possibility of better ties with Turkey […]
As I said many times, money printing, once began in mass, cannot stop for political reasons. If it was to stop, it would crush what is left of the US economic machine. Therefore, unless one wans to accept blame for a major, deflationary depression, the popular (and in a sense, popu-list answer) is to print […]
When Biden was elected, something that one could note was that border politics was ‘back on the menu ‘for discussion as a political rallying point. The border has often been used for this in modern times (and hence why no real efforts have been made to fix the situation on the border, to the detriment […]
The RICO, or Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act of 1970, was created in response to the rise in gang activity and was used to significantly reduce the power of Cosa Nostra and other of such groups. It is a federal law and carries major penalties with in, including asset forfeiture, so a RICO charge […]
Many heralded the Biden administration as one that would ‘unify’ the nation, but as American history shows constantly, unity is seldom achieved in peacetime, and the only real act that unifies Americans, the incredibly diverse and often times opposing thing that she is, almost every time is a war. That said, many hopes were dashed […]
Time passes quickly, and while 2035 may seem as though it is a long ways away, it is not. GM, the automobile giant, has according to Axios made a quiet move in her business model, in that by 2035, the company plans to stop producing gas-powered vehicles. General Motors is setting a worldwide target to […]
I have said many times that the money printing that began with Trump is not just a simple question of whether or not he would do it- it is that it had to be done because of the nature of the money system and political consequences. Either the US was heading for a deflationary, decades-long […]
As soon as Biden won the presidency, the news cycle seemed as though it began to report above average attempts and illegally crossing the US border. However, upon industry data reported by the trucking magazine The Trucker and citing reports from US Border Patrol, this seems to bear out, as the border patrol has seen […]
COVID-19 has affected the entire world, and it is causing economic of all sizes, great and small, to crash tremendously. In a not unexpected report from Rabobank, The Eurozone showed no economic growth, but contracted again, making a loss of 6.8% for the whole year. This morning’s GDP figure for the Eurozone shows the economy […]
From 2019 to 2020, the murder rate increased by what the New York Post reports in an “unprecedented” increase. Murder rates saw a “historic” increase in 2020 compared to 2019, with more than 1,200 additional killings year-over-year in a sample of 34 American cities, according to a study released Monday. “The coronavirus pandemic, continuing incidents […]
