• 20th Century

    Black Chips Down in Somaliland

    Americans know Somalia from the film “Black Hawk Down” based on the U.S. intervention of 1993. The U.S. had armed Somalia’s strong man, Siad Barre, as a counter to Ethiopia’s Marxist government, but with the [more...]
  • Economics

    Why gold’s recent “silence” is a flashing buy signal

    The recent “calm” in the gold market has left many observers, and especially the precious metal’s critics, questioning whether the “safe-haven” thesis still stands or whether its time has passed. In the shadow of the ongoing Middle East conflict and the [more...]
  • America

    Epstein…..Behind the Curtain………..Part 7

    Three years later, on December 23, 1913, with Congress half-empty and senators racing home for Christmas, their manuscript — renamed the Federal Reserve Act, cosmetically altered, and attributed to a different political faction — was [more...]
  • Literature

    Words Part – The Last

    Words are the currency of communication; endlessly combined they express every emotions, pass on knowledge, contribute to an ordered society and fulfil many, many more functions. The Bee Gees had it right: ‘Words, words are [more...]

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