“Asset bubbles seem to be becoming more “bubbly” as time goes by: the largesse of central banks appears to be inducing quicker and steeper price gains in assets compared to the case historically…”
Source: BofA: Even The Bubbles Are Becoming More “Bubbly” Thanks To Central Banks | Zero Hedge
There are low priced alternatives to treat diseases.
“In striking contrasts, a university-based team just announced it has developed a five-dollar treatment that completely abolishes cancer in the same week news headlines hailed the Food & Drug Administration’s approval of a $475,000 immunotherapy treatment for blood cancer (leukemia). I’m sure readers want to hear about the five-dollar cancer cure first. A university-based team set out to develop a cancer cure that could be performed in third-world countries where incomes are low, equipment unavailable and even electricity non-existent. What they came up with needs just a needle and a syringe and a steady hand. It is called tumor ablation … ”
Source: Two Cancer Cures Announced the Same Week – LewRockwell
One more reason to separate education from government. The savings would be enormous.
“New Jersey has hundreds of school districts. Some are huge, others are tiny. See if your town is among the smallest.”
Source: These 43 N.J. school districts have fewer than 200 students
“Nothing promotes bad public policy as much as disaster. An economic depression gives rise to demands for Keynesian ‘economic stimulus’ spending; elevated rates of unemployment among low-skilled workers give rise to demands for increases in the legal…”
Source: A Plea for Do-Nothing Government | The Beacon
Cryptocurrencies are risky.
“Ethereum and bitcoin are crashing this morning, after China confirmed its recent threat of an ICO crackdown, when the central bank said on Monday that initial coin offerings are illegal and disrupt financial markets. “This is a positive move given the rapid proliferation of low quality and possibly fraudulent coin sales promising the moon.” ”
Source: Ethereum, Bitcoin Crash After China Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal
“It was in that period [as the Trump campaign emerged] that we really became aware of them. These antifa guys were showing up with weapons, shields and bike helmets and just beating the shit out of people. They’re using Molotov cocktails, they’re starting fires, they’re throwing bombs and smashing windows.”
Source: FBI, DHS Officially Classify Antifa Activities As “Domestic Terrorist Violence” | Zero Hedge
“The leftist shibboleth that undergirds America as a welfare state is that Americans, if left to their own choices, would never voluntarily help out others to a sufficient degree. Given such, it is necessary, liberals say, for the state to enter the picture and force Americans to do their moral duty….”
Source: Hurricane Harvey: Charity vs. Welfare
“Old Chinese saying: ‘when elephants battle, ants get crushed.’ Think of the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula in which the government in Seoul has been all but ignored. South Korea’s newly elected president, Moon Jae-in, keeps insisting that the US must not launch war against North Korea without South Korea’s agreement. President Donald Trump and the US media appear not to have heard Moon’s pleas, or are simply disregarding them. Amazingly, six decades after the end of the 1950 Korean War, South Korea’s 650,000-man active armed forces and 4.2 million-man reserves remain under the command of a US four-star …”
Source: Time To Listen to South Korea – LewRockwell
“OPINION: What if prices rise but wages do not? That’s a scenario we haven’t seen since the 1970s but could if President Donald Trump gets the tariffs he wants.”
Source: Trump seems hell-bent on bringing back an economic horror we haven’t seen since the 1970s
“There are lies damned lies and Central Bank Gold statistics. Total official global gold holdings are reported to be 33,000 tonnes. That is 19% of all the gold ever produced in the world. But how ca…”
Source: THERE JUST ISN’T ENOUGH GOLD
“Bret Stephens, who wrote “Hurricanes, Climate and the Capitalist Offset” for the New York Times, is an economic ignoramus. He opines: “Climate activists often claim that unchecked economic growth and the things that go with are principal causes of environmental destruction. In reality, growth is the great offset. It’s a big part of the reason why, despite our warming planet, mortality rates from storms have declined… Death rates from other natural disasters such as floods and droughts have fallen by … staggering percentages over the last century. “That’s because economic growth isn’t just a matter of parking lots paving over paradise. …”
Source: Gov’t Won’t Protect Us From Storms – LewRockwell
