Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The Japanese recognize the adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies as a competitive advantage, and they're right.
One of the most durable claims of cryptocurrency skeptics is that "governments will ban bitcoin once it threatens their fiat currency or their control." Ben Bernanke recently gave voice to this claim as if it was received wisdom.
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
There’s been something happening this month that very few people have noticed.
It’s been lost beneath all the other headline-dominating news, from the Las Vegas shooting to Harvey Weinstein to the Mueller investigation.
But very quietly behind the scenes there’s been an extremely rapid uptick in the US national debt.
In the month of October alone, the US national debt has soared by nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Via The Daily Bell
Let’s Not Pick and Choose Our Freedoms
Prostitution has been illegal in California for 145 years. But for the first time, judges appear to be considering overturning the law.
In the past, challenges to the law have been outright dismissed. But now judges have agreed to take a closer look at the California law.
“Why should it be illegal to sell something that it’s legal to give away?” A judge asked in court.
Via The Daily Bell
Have you seen these types of articles? They say, “Why You Need To Stop…” and then fill in the personal preference of the author. They tell you all the things you need to stop doing in order to be a politically correct, castrated, unimposing social automaton.
Why You Need to Stop Reading Barstool Sports. It’s because the author is offended by barstool sports, and thinks it is a legitimate news source as opposed to entertainment. It is a call to boycott the toxic masculinity they promote.
Authored by Mark Thornton via The Mises Institute,
The Washington Post and “60 Minutes” have just peeled back another sordid layer in the War on Drugs by exposing Big Pharma’s role in expanding the Opiod Crisis that has resulted in more than 30,000 deaths per year.