Fed easing can strongly amplify existing speculative pressures but is often wholly ineffective when investors are inclined to risk-aversion. Recall that the Fed eased aggressively and persistently throughout

Philosophy is a science based on logical Deduction, Induction, Abductive and Analogical Reasoning. Unlike pop science, speculations and invention have no place in philosophy. In philosophy it has to make

The amount of evidence required to convince the average TV-hypnotized American is almost zero. However, in the rare historical moments where actual independent journalists and politicians exist, a modicum

Gallicanism: A cluster of doctrines, favored by the French Church, that tended to limit the authority of the Pope in relation to the bishops, and to subordinate the rights of the Church to the power of

“If a box is filled with salt, it cannot be filled with sand, and if our hearts are filled with hatred of our neighbor, how can God fill them with His love? We must forgive others, for on no other condition

Homosexual acts are sinful. Homosexual thoughts are intrinsically disordered. There are many intelligent, talented men in the priesthood. Yet however effective and profitable they may be in the role of

Crime reinforces bonds between the general population of law-abiding citizens. Optimally, there should be a perfect balance between crime and justice. Too little crime causes the public's problem-solving

1300 - 1400 : ABANDONMENT OF ROME 1400 - 1500 : CHURCH CORRUPTION 1500 - 1600 : CHURCH REFORMATION 1600 - 1700 : PROTESTANT REVOLT 1700 - 1800 : PROTESTANT LOSS OF FAITH 1800 - 1900 : PROTESTANT WORLDLY

In short, the IPCC has long been selling Global Warming as another tax-and-spend scheme, despite much greater environmental problems like pollution and food degradation. -- Miles Mathis The hijacked

Legally and logically, the whole question hinges on the difference between selling pre-manufactured widgets or wombats or donuts and selling special-order items. It concerns work for hire. If you are just

Mark Twain didn't think much of people and their soi-disant civilization, but as you look back, you see he didn't have much to complain about. The current population of Missouri is about 6 million. In

"Adam’s brother, Ryan, four years older and now a tax accountant in New York, used to joke about how close Peter and Adam were." If so, why do no pictures of Ryan and Adam together exist? Solomon

Private mobsters no longer exist, having been absorbed by the more powerful families that run the US government. As with all other business, the past 50 years has seen a monopolization of all lucrative

The idea that Leftists are to blame for anything is absurd, seeing that the American Left was killed back in the late 1800's. The Left since that time has been a total creation of the financiers: a faux-Left

The oligarchs in Europe and the United States created this situation in the first place. In 1975, the G7 countries met at Chateau Rambouillet in France and they created what Helmut Schmidt called "New

Intelligence discovered long ago that a fake event beat a real event everytime. In this way, they could create all the fear without any risk to themselves. You can't be prosecuted for a fake crime, can

Poisoning, dismembering, and suctioning children to death isn't health care, but killing — and Planned Parenthood knows it. "Politics has become so primary in modern life that the masses are more

Terence Mckenna was the Timothy Leary of the 80s and 90s that no one heard about until the DMT campaign began. He was a psychedelics advocate who also talked about ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and alchemy

"The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage,

In 1916, Jung received the best-documented help from demons: Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, or “The Seven sermons to the dead written by Basilides in Alexandria”, “transcribed by Carl Gustav Jung”. Jung stated