Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Thursday, August 17, 2017

A new international currency?

The wealth transfer to the banking system since President Nixon abrogated the Bretton Woods Treaty – without any vote or debate – has been astonishing.  For the period 2006 through 2016, according to the FDIC, they include distributing $818 billion in dividends to bank shareholders, $1.8 trillion in employee compensation, $4 trillion net interest income on money that banks created out of nothing, and $6.5 trillion in revenues net of interest expense.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/a_new_international_currency.html

Why We're Doomed: Our Economy's Toxic Inequality

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug17/doomed-inequality8-17.html

Rehabbing Red Sox reliever Carson Smith hits bump in comeback

http://www.csnne.com/boston-red-sox/rehabbing-boston-red-sox-reliever-carson-smith-hits-bump-comeback

An excerpt from ‘Make Your Own Bed’

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/excerpt-make-your-own-bed

What Do We Say About Decent Men Who Died for a Wicked Cause?

Black America is in jeopardy. For every 100 black women of marrying age there are only 81 men: the rest are dead or in jail. Seventy-three percent  of African-American children are born out of marriage. Although universities admit blacks and whites in roughly equal proportions, only 40% of black men graduate within six years of matriculation. Agony over these circumstances motivates the witch-hunt against imagined "micro-aggression," as I wrote two years ago. The "micro-aggression" theory does not explain why African-American women (who presumably are doubly oppressed for being both black and female) have a much higher college graduation rate (50% as opposed to 40%) than black men.

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/08/15/say-decent-men-died-wicked-cause/

Thursday, August 3, 2017

The New Empire by Brooks Adams

https://archive.org/details/newempire01adamgoog

The law of civilization and decay; an essay on history by Adams, Brooks, 1848-1927

https://archive.org/details/lawofcivilizatio00adam

WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN AT COLLEGE

There are several fact-packed books which tell a great deal about the relations of government and economic ruling c1asses down through history. Two especially good ones are Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization and Decay and Alexander Del Mar’s His­tory of Monetary Systems. Almost any professor wi1l agree that Brooks Adams was one ofAmerica’s greatest thinkers and historians; Del Mar was called the great­est historian of the 19th Century, and was frequently consulted as an expert by governments (who often refused to take his advice).
Both books have been out of print for years, and neither is used in a college or university today, as far as I know. Arthur Kitson’s testimony before the Mac­millan Commission has never been refuted, yet his book (The Banker’s Conspiracy! which unleashed the World War) is as little-known, in academic circ1es, as Adams or Del Mar. Read all three of them, and see what you think of the history and economics taught in your school.