The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System

“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not that far apart. Consider the temple. It was a colossus: a divinely sanctioned corporation…

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The Sacrificial Machine—How Private Finance Turned War into Permanent Profit

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935) Major General Smedley Butler…

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The Hamiltonian Mirage

What Built an Empire in 1790 Won’t Save It in 2026 “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”— Thomas Jefferson When the Trump administration—and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in particular—began invoking Alexander Hamilton as the blueprint for a new American economic order, I…

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1694: The Year the World Changed

How Financial Extraction Was Invented—and Why We Mistook It for Reality “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…

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