Parallels Between 1929 and Today’s Financial Fragility “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 In the final months of 1929, America looked unstoppable. Cities glowed with electric light. Streets swarmed with automobiles. Radios carried jazz, ball scores, and a steady stream of…
“Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.” — C.G. Jung, The Earth Has a Soul Last week, while picking up a book at the library, I noticed a small box marked “Free Books.” On top of the pile lay a…
How a forgotten economist foresaw the crises we’re repeating today “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock In 2025, global debt hovers at levels unseen since the Great Depression. Inequality has…
“In the end, money is just a belief system — and when that belief falters, people reach for what’s real.” — Ray Dalio If you’ve been following the precious-metals world lately, you’ve probably noticed a growing sense of unease — and for good reason. Gold and silver have been rising…
Why 2025 Belongs to the Miners, Not the Machines “That which is exalted among men is abomination in the sight of God.” — Luke 16:15 You’ve seen it a thousand times: breathless coverage of AI, ChatGPT, Nvidia, Bitcoin — “the next frontier.” It’s as if the media has declared 2025…
“It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain When I was a little girl, I had big questions. Why do we have to sleep? Why do we die? Why do we need money to…
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell Over lunch with friends recently, I was reminded how profoundly words shape our reality. They don’t just describe what we think—they guide it, limit it, sometimes even replace it. Mid-conversation, someone casually used the phrase “conspiracy theory.”…
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” —Heraclitus Last week I went to see an orthopedic surgeon. A nagging shoulder–elbow issue I’m trying to sort out. That same evening, an ad popped up on Facebook: a Free Shoulder Rehab Masterclass. Like magic! Except it wasn’t…
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” —Aldous Huxley, Author of Brave New World If you are old enough to remember the rise of the digital age, you probably recall the split: when paper photographs became pixels, when handwritten letters turned into emails and…
“There is no theory of the spark. Only of the combustible material.” — Charles Kindleberger In March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank insisted it was safe. By nightfall, depositors had withdrawn $42 billion—the fastest bank run in U.S. history. Another $100 billion was queued for the morning. The speed was new….
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