The cornerstone of the EU was to be the freedom of movement to create the United States of Europe. This became known as the Schengen Agreement to the create a borderless Europe signed on June 14th, 1985 between five of the then ten member states of the EU. It proposed the gradual abolition of border checks at the […]

  The comments have been pouring in on gold. To say they are interesting is to put it mildly. It is funny how both the gold promoters and the mainstream press actually respond in the same manner. Both desperately try to ignore the fact that our models just may have been an important advancement in […]

  Nigel Farage reveals the stark un-Democratic European Union that rejects the right of the people to ever vote against them right on the floor of Parliament in Brussels. The comments coming out of Brussels are simply outrageous. They only see their own power and they know best when in fact they are destroying Europe […]

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey  The Sydney Morning Herald has published a piece a reader has sent in from Downunder. The piece is all about how Australians have lost confidence in government. “Here’s what’s missing: trust. Not just between Abbott and his backbenchers, but also between Abbott and us. If anything,  the […]

While many are comparing Putin to Hitler who used the excuse he was uniting German speaking people, we have a clash between two empire-builders –  Brussels v Moscow. My argument for dividing Ukraine was rather simple. It should have been a fundamental right for the people of any region to decide their own fate – […]

  While I am a supporter of  MATT TAIBBI at the Rolling Stone, his take on the Pension Crisis is really off the mark. Taibbi focuses on the fees being paid to hedge funds as robbing state worker pension funds. What he fails to address is that the taxes are rising on the Middle Class to pay […]

A vital step in the shift of the Financial Capitol of the World moving from the West to the East, is becoming visible if you pay attention. Our model has revealed that the Financial Capitol of the World moves with the rise and fall of nations. China on the verge of becoming a net exporter […]

One item in my art collection is a Leroy Neiman work of the Chicago Futures Exchange. That last vestige of the swashbuckling era of commodities floor trading is closing down. While the decision is clearly a corporate bean-counter at the CME Group Inc. who has no idea about the art of trading, we are losing something […]

Puerto Rico is also in the middle of a debt crisis. A federal judged ruled it was unconstitutional for a  state to modify municipal debt. Government debt is worst of all for there is never any fiscal management. All they do is is assume we schmucks are always there with deep pockets. They never know […]

People like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are worried about what might happen as a result of advancements in AI. They’re concerned that robots could grow so intelligent that they could independently decide to exterminate humans. And if Hawking and Musk are fearful, does this mean you probably should be too? While no doubt interesing men, are they […]