We look at the macabre history of revolutionary terror acts and compare them to the terror acts of Nobel Peace laureates. If they do it to us, should we do it to them?
The bloodless coup d’ètat in Italy proves that any semblance of popular democracy in the EU is pure pantomime. The show is still run by an EU ruling class of corporate overlords, financial oligarchs, and their central bankers. Democracy is invalidated by their army of 82,096 lobbyists, 11,327 pressure groups and an entrenched class of political mobsters.
The future looks grim for increasingly PC social media. Moderator's censorship robs us of the chance to troll Tommy Robinson’s Twitter account and directly address the pathetic, dribbling excuse of a man himself… and literally thousands of others..
A fair amount of serious crime ends with convictions. Large-scale corporate crime virtually never does. Find out why.
Knuckle-dragging rednecks, college campus jocks and Twitter trolls: the alt-right increasingly resembles Mel Brook's raggle taggle army of hoodlums.
If the world’s economy were a haircut, it would be a comb-over. The strands from the earlobe periphery are being greased across an increasing barren bald patch. It’s not looking good.
Modern academic texts uphold the ideathat the crash was just a minor glitch and that happy days are just around the corner. The truth: virtually every nation, government, municipality and many households are technically insolvent.
While we bicker about the blue and red of our cola packaging, politian's purple ties or how much the reds are paying Facebook to help swing U.S. elections, we are distracted from far shadier behind-the-scenes dealings.
IMF's brutal austerity programs not enough? Get ready for more cash creation and the subsequent inflation that will impoverish - not empower - the poor of the planet.
Cut the hypocritical bull. All wealthy nations got rich with tariffs. In the U.S. expansion period, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln, Jackson and Franklin were some of the most protectionist policy makers in history.
While left and right play the blame game Venezuela has been exiled from the international community. It has been banished from international money markets and has been demonized by all sides. Venezuela today is no more a victim of its own political policy failure than it was twenty years ago. The country has been abandoned and crippled by US-endorsed economic sanctions.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Sweden and Switzerland bear many uncanny similarities: populations virtually identical GDPs and, logically analogous GDP per capita); Switzerland has a free-floating Franc, while Sweden’s currency is technically a managed float. Likewise, the two share diversified economies with similar principal industries and exports. So what's the big difference?
INVESTING
Is bitcoin really a lousy investment? Not when compared to gambling on bond bubbles, bank bail-ins, over-inflated stock and phony property prices.
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
The white-knuckle Bitcoin ride continues. Those of you sensible enough to have listened to the Penny Post back when we were recommending it at $30 need read no further. For the rest of the media victims who hang on Jamie Dimon or Paul Krugman’s every word, you might want to stick around and get informed.