Broad Oak Magazine

John Hussman thinks the stockmarket is due for at least a 50% drop. If he's right, that would be the third time since the start of the...

John Ward reports that some South African bank savers are now having their accounts raided to shore up a different bank, African Bank Inves...

The Washington Post lists a host of US companies that have relocated their official headquarters overseas to reduce tax. Apart from the u...

Seeking to draw parallels between modern America and decadent Rome , Washington's Blog links to this: A dwindling middle class, th...

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(Pic source)   "A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures." - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/trader_principle....

(pic source) A couple of months ago I looked at Russia's possible longer-term evolution ("Russia's big plans", April ...

From Martin Armstrong today ( emphases mine ): "We are getting info from reliable sources that there may be another layer to the USA...

I'm reading Michael Crichton's " Airframe " (1996) and it contains a passage that has resonances far beyond the airline...

Eric Zuess' book " They're Not Even Close " compares the economic record of the American political parties from 1910-201...

Source: http://www.justintarte.com/2012/10/leadership-and-your-tipping-point.html "When looked at objectively each merger or take ...

From The Guardian "No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to hi...

We're told today that round Wolverhampton, you may occasionally see a little piece of black cloth tied to the towbar of a car. This me...

First edition ( pic source ) Another sterling piece this week by Archdruid John Michael Greer. Here he discusses how our lives will cha...

What the new-style pound coin will resemble:   The flower is called "thrift"... ( source ) What the modern pound is wort...

Pic source: BBC The proposed new-style pound coin is publicised on the day of UK Chancellor George Osborne's Budget speech to Parl...

(From the Bayerische Staatsoper's 2012 production  of " Götterdämmerung") Synopsis: Having lost their gold to the Feder...

Politics has become the art of the impossible. We have a dysfunctional economy because we have a dysfunctional society, and vice versa....

When things go wrong, the modern meme is to blame the “Law of Unintended Consequences”, which is the modern way of saying “it’s just God’s...

Last Sunday, "hundreds of thousands of customers were left unable to use debit cards and 7,000 cashpoints" ( Daily Mail ).   ...