This Is How Democracy Dies
Self-Censorship Destroys Accountability and Democracy. A free society and a free press are required to protect citizens from government and corporate tyranny. But when five giga...
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Do You Need More Proof?
This article is a follow-up to Is U.S. Foreign Policy Controlled by Corporations? No matter how much evidence you present to some people, they still cannot escape their propagan...
Read MoreIs U.S. Foreign Policy Controlled by Corporations?
In the Beginning. . . American foreign policy has been an influential driver of global economic and geopolitical affairs for over two centuries. After the ratification of the U....
Read MoreNeoliberal Case Study: The United States
This article was originally in my recent book, GINI: Capitalism, Cryptocurrencies, and the Battle for Human Rights . However, some people said it was too data-heavy for the book...
Read MoreThe Emerging Crypto Banking Cartel
Commercial Agenda vs. Open Source Crypto Ethos. There’s nothing wrong with for-profit companies seeking to maximize profit as long as they’re doing it in an ecosystem-sustainabl...
Read MoreFIRE & Wealth Concentration
To understand the purpose and value of our Gini Blockchain and why it’s different from any other blockchain, it’s useful to review why several fiat currency economies are collap...
Read MoreWe Are Paying the Price for Realpolitik
Many American political scientists and commentators seem to be oblivious to the long history of American intervention in Syria since the late 1940s. They also seem to ignore wes...
Read MoreBlockchain Patent War Coming
Bank of America has more blockchain patents than any other company on Earth, including IBM, Google, Facebook, and other Silicon Valley tech companies ( Bloomberg ). JPMorgan and...
Read MoreWhat Is Our "National Interest"?
I was recently asked, "Why is the U.S. Government involved in Afghanistan?" Aside from the idiotic "War on Terror" justification given by the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrati...
Read MoreWhen the Media Fails, Countries Fail
It’s amusing to see how the U.S. Government’s fiscal policies are covered by the mainstream press. For example, in headlines like “Rand Paul delays budget vote as shutdown looms...
Read MoreThe Secret History of the War on Drugs
The “War on Drugs” Begins. In 1971, U.S. President Nixon declared the “War on Drugs” . He said, “America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse,” but Nixon...
Read MoreAre We in a Propaganda Bubble?
Paths to Truth or Fiction? There can be many paths to truth, but truth only exists when it's supported by verifiable facts. When a given path (e.g., in alphabetical order, Al Ja...
Read MoreJustice, Power & Wisdom
We All Lose from Systemic Injustice. I have a good friend who is a founder of a multibillion-dollar company who has been thoroughly eviscerated by a biased judge in a protracted...
Read MoreHas Globalism Worked for Indonesia?
Is Indonesia’s free trade policy today achieving broadly shared prosperity? If it is, then we should see economic and human health outcomes that result in the broad creation and...
Read MoreProof of Google Censorship & a Path to Freedom
My professional life depends on rationally separating facts from fiction, evidence-based economic analysis, data-driven decision-making, and real-world experience. In fact, I’ve...
Read MorePolitical Party Systems in Germany vs. France
Germany has such an extraordinary level of institutional integrity and higher quality governance than virtually any nation on Earth. So I spent some time studying their system a...
Read MoreThe Virus That Spawns the Disease of Terrorism
What International Relations framework is most capable of dealing with global terrorism in the 21 st Century and beyond? This is a question I have been asked several times. Ther...
Read MoreWhat's Really Wrong with the Banking System?
Many people have a vague sense that the financial system is broken and corrupt, but they often don't know how to explain exactly what is wrong. This is understandable because th...
Read MoreThe Switzerland of South America: "Freedom or Death"
“Freedom or death” is Uruguay’s national motto. Those three words give us meaningful insight into Uruguay’s national psyche, its cultural affinity for the principles of civil li...
Read MoreThe Mechanics of a Global Wealth Transfer
Economic Models Collapse in the Real World. Economic neoliberalism is a theoretical economic framework that many academics and political and business leaders like to promote bec...
Read MoreTransnational Economic Cannibals
The Genesis of Today’s Global Economy. When the international trade regime (GATT, WTO, NAFTA, etc.) that dominates the world today was created between 1947 and the 1990s, it was...
Read MoreThe Rise of Nuclear Trump
Americans Have a Choice Between Two Insane Options. They are forced to choose between an insane foreign policy and an insane nuclear weapons policy . Recently, I had a conversat...
Read MoreWarning: Risk of Death to Your Economy
Dangerous Products Should Have Warning Labels. Products that come with plastic bags that can suffocate and kill children have warning labels. Economic policies that can suffocat...
Read MoreComparing the Quality of German & U.S. Governments
Why is Government Quality So Important? The quality of a country’s governance is the most significant factor that determines the quality of life that it can provide to its citiz...
Read MoreIs Capitalism Undemocratic?
Like most aspects of life, the true nature of Capitalism and its impact on humanity can only be understood as continuously shifting shades of reality. Karl Marx famously stated...
Read MoreThe Twin Tyrannies of the United Nations
There are two fundamental problems with the United Nations: representation and cost allocation. The problems can be summarized as follows: UN General Assembly Representation – T...
Read MoreAbortion & the Value of Human Life
Value Systems Should be Based on Facts. The values of a society are either based on facts or they are not. If values are not based on facts, then they are based on delusions, fa...
Read MoreUnknown Truth or Untrue Conspiracy?
Why is Truth Often Disregarded as a Conspiracy Theory? This is an important question because a society that can't distinguish between truth and untrue conspiracy will inevitably...
Read MoreThe Mind of a Corrupt Organization
In " Unknown Truth or Untrue Conspiracy? ” and “ Is Institutional Corruption Only a Conspiracy Theory? ” we learned about some of the most shocking government and corporate “con...
Read MoreIs Institutional Corruption Only a Conspiracy Theory?
This article is intended as a map to hundreds of documented sources of government and corporate corruption and malfeasance. From now on, if you ever see anybody say, “It’s not t...
Read MoreSmall Government Reduces the Impact of Corruption
Entry Points Into Our Lives. The politically-driven expansion of the federal government is what enables special interest distortions to penetrate deeper and deeper into every as...
Read MoreHow Does the Federal Reserve Really Work?
Preface. To avoid any confusion, I want to emphasize up-front that all the functions of the Federal Reserve (and any central bank) are entirely unnecessary in an economy based o...
Read MoreWhat Caused the Great Depression? (Part 3)
Americans Are Sentenced to Generational Debtor's Prison. As we learned in Part 1 and Part 2 of this "What Caused the Great Depression?" series, specific humans in the U.S. Congr...
Read MoreWhat Caused the Great Depression? (Part 2)
Too Much Debt. The total private debt-to-GDP ratio in the United States was nearly 300% by the time the Great Depression started in 1929. In fact, “never before in this country...
Read MoreWhat Caused the Great Depression? (Part 1)
Bad Diagnosis Leads to Bad Solutions. This is the most important question that any person can ask if they want to understand how an economy works and what is wrong with their ec...
Read MoreCorruption & The Path to Political Purgatory
Syndrome of Distortions. With the exception of economically destructive natural disasters, every financial or political crisis is caused by either a corrupt regulatory process,...
Read MoreBeware of the Congressional Experience Myth
“Is experience in Congress required to be a good congressional representative?” This question is rooted in a common misconception perpetuated by the politicians themselves and a...
Read MoreExploiting Sick Americans to Subsidize Foreign Wars is Bad Policy
The CIA, Crack Cocaine, and the Sabotage of Nicaragua. During the 1980s the White House and several influential members of Congress gave explicit and detailed orders to the Stat...
Read MoreThe Paradox of Campaign Finance Reform
How Do You Take Away a Citizen's Rights Without Violating Their Rights? Trying to compel the U.S. Supreme Court to reduce or cap private campaign finance spending is a monumenta...
Read MoreMonetizing Misery by Penetrating the Privacy Wall
Introduction to Gawker v. Peter Thiel. The initial inspiration for this article was the recent Gawker v. Hulk Hogan lawsuit, in which the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan sued the onl...
Read MoreWill the UK Escape the EU?
The UK will leave the European Union . It’s usually not wise to make absolute statements when discussing complex future economic and political events. However, sometimes the emp...
Read MoreBiology to Geopolitics: Evolving International Relations
The Pain-Pleasure Principle in Geopolitics. All behavior in the animal kingdom is governed by the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. As we ascend from the primitive...
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