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Credit Crash

According to Stephen Roach’s book ‘Unbalanced,’ America and China are addicted to ‘the political economy of false prosperity’. In America’s case, they undertook a policy of increasing shareholder profits...

Did This All Happen Before?

The 19th Century was rife with fake philanthropy movements, from temperance leagues, to anti-smoking groups, to hygiene organizations. One of these movements was organized about spreading hysteria and panic...

The Tattoo Conspiracy

The media is now promoting new medical tattoos that have graphene in them and can transmit information remotely using radio frequencies. Baruch Goldstein, who runs one such startup, calls these tattoos “cutaneous...

Holograms

In his book “Crystalizing Public Opinion,” Edward Bernays said back in 1926 that a new form of government has emerged for the first time in thousands of years, a...

The Psychology of Totalitarianism

What is the difference between a dictatorship and a totalitarian state? Answer: A dictator only controls one institution (namely, government). In a totalitarian state, by contrast, the ruler lays...

Generalizations

When someone creates a new axiom, what he did was notice a pattern– one that was derived from past data, describes present activity and can thus be used to...

Full Spectrum Habit-Formation

Governments are systems, and systems repeat. (If it doesn’t repeat, it isn’t a system.) Our Constitution, for instance, is a paper algorithm, setting up certain repetitions. Every four years...

Robes

Penny Kelly wrote a fascinating book some decades ago, which predicted events that seem to be happening today. Entitled “Robes,” the book offers a roadmap of occurrences that stretch...

Weights and Measures

One of the first things the Founding Fathers did was to establish a division of weights and measures in the Constitution. By maintaining standards in this sense, merchants couldn’t...

The Fractal Nature of Society

Self-similarity is the concept of a pattern repeating both in the microcosm and the macrocosm. ‘As above, so below,’ said the ancients. Fractal patterns abide by this rule. How...

Social Contagion

Ever since teenaged hysteria kicked off the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600s, a new mania appears every so often. Every decade or so, the media promotes a new...

The Managerial Revolution

150 years ago, Karl Marx prophesied the clash between two segments of society: labor versus capital. He saw the economy as binary in structure. As events would unfold, it...