Posts by Jeff Berwick

Do you think Brexit is a simple affair? It seems clear cut. Either Britain leaves the EU on June 23rd or it doesn’t. But we look at these issues from the point of view of Jubilee 2016. As much as we would like to think this is a straightforward sociopolitical event, we cannot. It is part…

Throw every “norm” out the window.  This Keynesian, central banking world has everything so distorted that nothing makes sense anymore. There are currently more than $7 trillion in bonds, worldwide, offering a negative interest rate. Wrap your head around that!  People are actually paying trillions of dollars to give their money to mostly bankrupt governments with…

I am happy (and a bit scared) to announce that I will be returning to the US for my first conference appearance inside the Empire in years to Freedomfest in July! Aside from Anarchapulco, the world’s largest anarcho-capitalist conference, Freedomfest is what I consider to be the only other must-attend freedom conference. Freedomfest is different…

It has been less than two months since I visited Caracas, Venezuela. While things were already very bad when I was there, they are now worse. Power shortages have deepened (and this in an oil rich country!); food is becoming scarce (some people have resorted to eating dogs and cats); people lie on concrete slabs in hospitals without…

It was just yesterday that we said that Donald Trump had chosen the best of the two available options for the US government.  The two, and only two, options are to default on the debt or to hyperinflate.  And the best option for almost everyone (except those who stupidly and immorally loaned the US government…