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A Competence Deficit

In recent years, Dr. McCullough and I have frequently marveled at what appears to be a competence deficit among people who occupy leadership positions. Scarcely a month passes without news of a catastrophe that could have been prevented if those in charge had possessed the competence to assess quickly an unusual or risky situation— or even a clear and present danger—and to take decisive action to avert disaster.

We saw this competence deficit on a grand scale in the medical profession during the...

Ghosts in the Republic: Truth, Shadows, and the Death of Integrity

Imagine, for a moment, that the ghosts of Shakespeare’s plays—Banquo, Hamlet’s father, Julius Caesar—were to step across the boundary of fiction into the halls of Congress or the modern news cycle. These spectral figures were never meant to take action themselves; they hovered, hinted, warned—but they never engaged the living world directly. Ghosts, by their nature, are unseen, unaccountable, and unanchored. And yet, today, our public square is increasingly crowded with just such figures—not fro...

One Chart Proves They’re Liars

Today’s issue is for old times’ sake.

Fully half of the people who read my emails today started getting them during the Covid years. At that time I was trying my best to understand what was going on, and other people also trying to make sense of things stumbled on my videos and eBooks, thereby landing them on my subscriber list.

So remember the old days, when I’d share a chart that told the opposite of the story the liars were trying to tell us — and no matter how much you showed it to certain p...

The Weaponization of Feminine Charm

Beware of pretty faces that you find / A pretty face can hide an evil mind…”
—Johnny Rivers, “Secret Agent Man”

“Nuclear war via missiles scared everybody 70 years ago,” Doug Casey writes. “But today it’s not a practical threat. The likely threats, I think, are from more subtle areas—cyber war, bio war, or a new type of guerrilla war.”

There’s another threat that Casey didn’t mention, one that’s been around since humans began noticing the opposite sex, the import of which was immortalized in Chr...

Why the Epstein List Matters

I was never much of a conspiracy theorist. Sure, I heard the speculations (we didn’t land on the moon, vaccines cause autism, 9/11 was an inside job, etc.), but I usually just dismissed them with a shake of my head and maybe even a chuckle. I know that evil men can join together to do evil things, but I just didn’t think men were competent enough to pull off the usually elaborate machinations these theories proposed.

Of course, the past five years changed my perspective, and I’m not alone in thi...

Why Television Drug Commercials Must Stop

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Do They Deserve It? Mexico Is Collapsing as the US Deports Illegals Back Home

Oh, the delicious irony. For many years I’ve been writing about the southern US border and the many ways in which Mexico has used it as a “steam valve” to get rid of people in perpetual poverty, as well as malcontents, violent criminals and political revolutionaries. Who could have foreseen a time when the conundrum would be reversed and Mexico would be crushed by an avalanche of its own unwanted citizens?

But weren’t we told that migrants are an “economic boon” to any country lucky enough to ha...

The United States of Impunity

AI is the whiff of perfume that’s supposed to mask the stench of terminal moral decay.

It is appropriate to discuss the United States of Impunity on Bastille Day, which commemorates the start of the French Revolution in 1789, for the United States of Impunity is just as impervious to real change as the French monarchy, the Ancien Regime.

It’s impossible to discuss the United States of Impunity without being dismissed as a raving lunatic because the moral decay that has turned the USA into the US...

Threatening the Russians With an Ultimatum Will Backfire Severely and Will Set the Stage for Nuclear War

So is this how it all ends?  I don’t even know how to describe the emotions that I am feeling right now.  There was so much hope a few months ago that there would be peace, but both sides appear completely uninterested in making substantial compromises at this point.  Instead, both sides are poised to dramatically escalate the war.  If we continue going down this path, it isn’t going to end well.  For decades, our leaders have been conducting war game scenarios in which a conflict in Ukraine lea...

Offshore Gold Storage

“If your gold is outside the US, it gives you another degree of insulation should the United States decide that you shouldn’t own it.” – Doug Casey

I’ve been a holder of gold since the 1970’s. At that time, I was purchasing gold and silver for business reasons and found that, as the price was steadily increasing, I’d be wise to buy more than I needed immediately, as I’d most certainly profit from it in the near future.

At that time, I was buying most of my precious metals in Hatton Garden, the c...