Two lectures this week will take you two hours. They are worth it.
The first is a discussion by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Perkins spent years working for government contractors, bribing foreign governments. Our Keynesian leaders still abide within the fallacy that there is a fixed amount of pie to an economy, and for us to be made rich, others may be poor. Give this a listen, and pick up the book if you are interested. Very compelling, this…
The second lecture is a conspiratorial view of war, containing the assertion that not only do Central Banks (of Issue) fund wars, they have every interest in them and are often the pullers of strings. Many rumors have been floating around about this theory in the past few years, and they will increase as we continue to fight wars in the Middle East. The presence of oil and reversal of reserve currency status are EXTREMELY dangerous to our economy, and when we lose that status, we will be impoverished greatly due to our insistence on running high government deficits perennially. You will learn lots from this lecture, but much is to be taken with a grain of salt. Even so, there is notable truth here…