Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Fear & Fatal Power During the Time of Pompey
Since the days when Mark Antony’s grandfather patrolled the coasts of the Mediterranean searching for the distinctive gilded-stemmed masts of their lightweight vessels, pirates from Cilicia (modern-day Cukorova, Turkey) had vexed Roman shipping lanes.
Soros Dumps Gold, Inciting Fear of Plummeting Price
George Soros, the hedge fund investor who called gold "the ultimate bubble," has divested his portfolio of nearly its entire investment in the precious metal, inciting many to fear that the price will very soon plummet, devaluing the specie-heavy portfolios of millions of investors.
George Soros a Student of the Austrian School?
George Soros courageously walked into the Cato Institute on Thursday to debate some of the nation’s leading scholars of the Austrian School of economics.
Nancy Pelosi Supports Global Tax on Stock Transactions to Fund Next Stimulus Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the Will Rogers of big government: She never met a tax she didn’t like. Her latest pet project is the neither nimbly nor accurately named “Let Wall Street Pay for the Restoration of Main Street Act of 2009.” The bill, introduced by Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), was referred to various House committees Friday and benefits from the cosponsorship of over 25 Congressmen.
Internet News Hits New Height of Popularity
For the so-called “old media,” it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Secret Billionaire Luncheon Produces Dire Predictions
Bilderbergers, look out, here comes another super secret meeting of billionaires predicting the future of the world’s economy.
Free Trade Agreements: Key to Economic Recovery?
In his speech on the economy on September 8, President Barack Obama tied our nation's fiscal recovery to the passage of three free trade agreements (FTA) currently awaiting approval. Said the president:
Will Empty Seats on the NLRB Save American Manufacturing?
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) assault on American manufacturing may soon be arrested. George Soros Funded by the House of Rothschild
In 1987, as a freshman in college, I walked into the university library and took down a tome entitled the House of Rothschild. The book told a story of a humble Jewish family from Frankfurt that began as money lenders to the German aristocracy and expanded its wealth exponentially and geographically until its interests extended into the ruling houses of Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The Austrian branch was endowed with titles and lands by the Hapsburg emperor and the British branch was similarly ennobled by Queen Victoria. "The Ecstasy of Empire" and the Agony of Tyranny
Infowars.com, the website founded by self-described “aggressive constitutionalist” Alex Jones, published an article by former Reagan Treasury Department official and co-author of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts entitled “The Ecstasy of Empire.”
