[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV senior analyst, Ed Bugos]

“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book, 1964)

I don’t think anyone can truly understand the idea of freedom without understanding why a shrinking group of Americans cherish their 2nd amendment rights so passionately. Obama says that the voices of dead children compel change, by which he means to disarm Americans at a faster pace.

Three Prophets of the Anti-Christ

The week has passed, as did asteroid DA 14 which did not destroy the earth. And no meteors attacked Russia this week, which is good news. Meanwhile, life in the USSA rambles on, with higher taxes and more drone warfare. Why haven't you left yet?

On to this week's feedback...

GOLD STORAGE VS. DELIVERY

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[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” 

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was right. If you sat beside Ben Bernanke in his Washington Nationals box seats while he slurped on his ice cream cone and you had a general conversation with him, he probably wouldn’t come across as being insane. “That was a nice home run,” he’d say. You’d nod.

But it is people like Bernanke who believe in collectivist systems and top-down economics who are insane.