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House Speaker Michael Johnson: Just Another Neocon Traitor

For all intents and purposes, Nikki Haley or Lindsey Graham could be U.S. House Speaker, and we wouldn’t know the difference. Michael Johnson has quickly morphed into another two-bit warmonger and big-government, police-state shill like virtually every House Speaker before him—at least in modern memory.

Before taking the Speaker’s chair, Johnson had a reputation of being a pro-peace, fiscal conservative who wanted to secure America’s borders and stop the out-of-control deficit spending in Washin...

Empire Managers Say Russia, China and Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide

Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we’re seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. These demented conspiracies of foreign influence come even as Israel’s prime minister openly calls for the US government to quash the university protests by any means necessary.

In a speech supporting the ban of TikTok this past Tuesday, Senator Pete R...

Biden: White Americans Are the Threat

The Main Goal of the Biden Regime Is to Sell-out the Majority White American Population and to declare them as a menace.

Tucker Carlson points out that president Biden, illegitimately in office due to the theft of the 2020 election, has as president of the United States defined America’s majority white population as the major cause of racism and a threat to national unity. Note: it is the majority that is the threat.

Yet, tens of millions of dumbshit white Americans designated as America’s worst...

Could Eating More Fermented Foods Help Improve Mental Health?

Fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi are powerful allies to your mental health, courtesy of the neuroactive microbes and molecules they contain.1 Microbes and their metabolites, created during fermentation modulate the microbiota-gut-brain axis, which involves neural, immune, endocrine and metabolic pathways.2

Writing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, researchers with University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and colleagues reasoned that fermented foods “offer an affordable dietary i...

Milei Is Little More Than a Political Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Beware the False ‘Libertarian’ Hype

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

~  William Shakespeare,  Richard III

How easy it seems to me that people are so readily deceived, and that extreme gullibility among the masses remains as the primary attitude evident. I do realize that this is not uncommon, but it is amazingly confounding, after thousands of years of continuous lies by the ruling State; absurdity beyond reason to be sure. But still they ...

A Big Spender’s League All of His Own

This is an excerpt from David Stockmans book: Trump’s War on Capitalism.

As it happened, the US Congress acted like greased lightning, enacting the  $2.2 trillion CARES act  virtually sight unseen just  eleven  days  after  The  Donald’s March 16 press  conference initiated the  Covid lockdowns. The  bill  was over  eight hundred pages long and included a more ostentatious cornucopia of spend- ing authorities and  free stuff than had  ever before been  imagined in even the  most  profligate quar...

How Bad Could It Get?

The leading investment strategies of the day are:

The university investment model, currently emphasizing non-marketable investments, which I pioneered but which has now become too crowded.

Momentum investing, in which you or your algorithm buy whatever seems to be going up.

Indexing, also a form of momentum investing because most index funds are capitalization weighted.

Risk Parity, which tries to realize equity like returns from fixed income through leverage, although this has faded aft...

Attention LewRockwell.com Readers! Treat the Students in Your Life to The Best Week of Their Year

“If you care about your country . . . read Ludwig von Mises.”
– UFC Fighter Renato Moicano, Las Vegas, April 13, 2024

The thirty-eighth annual Mises University, where I have lectured for more than thirty of those years, will be held from July 28th to August 3rd at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.  Year after year, student attendees from all over the world tell us that it was the best week of their school year; that they learned more about the economic world in that week than in four years...

Carceral Imperialism

“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties, including an inability to hold a job thanks to physical and mental-health deficits ...

China Holds the Future of US Debt in Her Hands

According to the US Treasury, the two largest buyers of US Treasuries have been Japan and China. Japan is now the largest holder, but this reflects the interests of mainly pension funds, insurance companies, and a carry trade. Most of the $775 billion recorded as Chinese is the Chinese government itself, making it by far and away the single largest holder. This is because China exercises exchange controls, thereby limiting foreign investment by domestic institutions. And in the past the Peoples ...