Juan Manuel Merchan is a Colombian-born American judge and former prosecutor. Most curious, he is NOT a formal judge, he is ONLY an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County. How did a former prosecutor  who is NOT a formal judge get assigned this case? This is not just […]

The history of interest rates is provided on this site. Interest rates in a developed economy reflect the “option” value on the expected decline in purchasing power of money. If I expect it to decline by 5%, then I expect a profit, and say want 8%. You in turn will pay the 8% only if […]

President Donald Trump                                                                                     March 19, 2020 White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500   Dear Mr. President, As an economist with a proven track record, I have been called in by former presidents, world leaders, and central banks around the world during crises since 1985. I was summoned for help during […]

Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, as a jury of 12 unanimously returned their verdict on May 30 after two days of deliberation. With this result, President Trump becomes the first ever American president to be convicted of a crime. Of course, he will appeal a […]

The old idea that inflation is created by an increase in money supply has distorted the minds of many people. Inflation is caused by numerous factors for it is not a one-dimensional aspect. For example, say a bird flu has rendered half of the egg production to be worthless, which would send egg prices soaring. […]

In an interview on May 11, 2014, I explained on USAWatchdog that confidence always outweighs reality. “It’s basically what you believe. There have been all sorts of studies on fundamentals that say if interest rates go up, stocks go down.  It is simply not true.  The stock market has never peaked with interest rates twice in history.  […]

The Syrian refugee crisis has been plaguing the global community for over a decade. While former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the doors to refugees in Europe, other nations are still grappling with the social and economic implications. Lebanon is a country of 6 million, but hosts 780,000 Syrian migrants. As Lebanon is certainly not under […]

There is something really wrong at the International Criminal Court. It has been taken over by the Neocons and is violating international law and its own jurisdiction. I had dinner with the ICC, and they were appalled at what was done to me. They expressed how they “wished” they could have charged the judges and […]

This includes the Disease Cycle and

How We Should Expect Disease to Spread as it always does with Migrations throughout history

History repeats because (1) the judgment and passions of humankind never change throughout the centuries, and (2) society as a collective whole can never learn from past mistakes. Emperor Valens opened the border and allowed the Goths, Germanic barbarian tribes, to enter the Roman Empire because this was when Attila the Hun was pushing to the West. Valens, like Biden, thought these people could help in a future war. They were trained in Roman military tactics and given weapons. However, in the end, they joined forces with other Goths and turned on the Romans from inside their own empire. There was the major Battle of Adrianople on August 9th, 378AD; ironically, the emperor who let them in died on the battlefield.

Both Europe and the United States have allowed people of different cultures to invade, and in the process, they are not interested in assimilating and adopting our beliefs and traditions. They wish to retain their own culture, and in Europe, some are burning down Christian churches and raping women because they appear to "want it" in their short shirts. This is the end of Western culture as it was for Rome.

In fact, it was the invasion of the Goths that changed society, and even our word today for "god" was derived from barbarians, not Romans. Most interesting, this invasion of the Goths was so profound that to this day, our English word “god” is derived from the Proto-Germanic version of gudą, which is derived from the Goths’ Germanic language, “guþ.” So, the next time you pray to "God," remember that was a barbarian word - not Roman, which was "Deus" - the Latin word for "god" or "deity".

  I appeared on Russia Today over the weekend because it is important to show the Russian people that the West is not all hateful Neocons. However, the forecasts are NEVER my personal opinion. That is why so many governments turn to us. I do not tell them only what they want to hear. Ukraine […]