Posts by Jeff Berwick

It’s been a whirlwind few hours in the bitcoin world after two tech publications say they have identified bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakomoto. The bitcoin price surged more than $20 in less than an hour to $417 and the Australian police conducted a raid on the supposed founder’s house within hours! Gizmodo and Wired became the latest…

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook posted a “Letter To Our Daughter” stating that he would give 99% of his Facebook shares to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative “to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.” The New York Times, perhaps the most economically ignorant tabloid in the world, headlined,…

Many may recall the libertarian-fashioned community being planned in Chile called “Galt’s Gulch Chile” (GGC). If you’ve been reading here at TDV for years, you know that I had very high hopes for it and was the largest cheerleader of the project as I thought I was a partner in it and had 50% control…

“I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.” – Candidate Barack Obama, October 27,…

At the beginning of October, nearly two months ago, I wrote a blog entitled, “World War III, the TPP and a New Global Police Force – Welcome to the Fall Crisis Period.” In it I wrote, “Two months ago, Russia and the US were not basically at war, but today they are thanks to Syria.”…