Regulators Who Regulate Nothing Here we go again. PFGBest founder attempts suicide as $200m goes missing from Future’s Broker’s Accounts. The CFTC stands up with each crisis and claims it failed once again to PREVENT a fraud because it lack yet another regulation tool in its endless Swiss Army Knife. As the 2007 debacle unfolded, […]

U.S. Supreme Court   Braswell v. United States, 487 U.S. 99 (1988)   Braswell v. United States   No. 87-3   Argued March 1, 1988, Decided June 22, 1988   487 U.S. 99 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR  THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus A federal grand jury issued a subpoena to petitioner […]

Banks have been manipulating markets, interest rates, and governments for a very long time. The present scandal involving manipulating LIBOR interest rates in Europe that began in Britain is surfacing like a soap opera evolving slowly on the political stage of life illustrating the potential to split the financial world in two like no other […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved May 6th, 2012 Don’t Anybody Move Or the Black Guy Gets it! I have worked with people on Capitol Hill for some time now. I testified before the House Ways & Means Committee in 1997 on the global economy and taxation. When I was young and idealistically naïve, I […]

KLEINE TEXTE FÜR VORLESUNGEN UND ÜBUNGEN HERAUSGEGEBEN VON HANS LIETZMANN ——————-147——————- OCTAVIA PRAETEXTA CVM ELEMENTIS COMMENTARII EDIDIT CAROLVS HOSIVS BONN A. MARCUS UND E. WEBER’S VERLAG 1922 OCTAVIA Iam vaga caelo sidera fulgens Aurora fugat, surgit Titan radiante coma mundoque diem reddit clarum. age tot tantis onerata malis, 5 repete assuetos iam tibi questus atque […]

ERYXIAS   By a Platonic Imitator Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX II. INTRODUCTION. ERYXIAS APPENDIX II. The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are not mentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to be ascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assigned […]

PLATO’S APOLOGY, CRITO AND PHÆDO OF SOCRATES. Literally Translated By HENRY CARY, M.A., Worcester College, Oxford With An Introduction By EDWARD BROOKS, JR. CONTENTS. Introduction The Apology Of Socrates Introduction to the crito Crito; Or, The Duty Of A Citizen Introduction To The Phædo Phædo; Or, The Immortality Of The Soul INTRODUCTION. Of all writers […]

  MENO   by Plato   Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. ON THE IDEAS OF PLATO. MENO INTRODUCTION. This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ‘Then […]

MENEXENUS   by Plato (see Appendix I)   Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents APPENDIX I. MENEXENUS INTRODUCTION. PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Menexenus. APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is […]

  By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION.APOLOGY INTRODUCTION. In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted ‘if in […]