Feudalism

GUJO-HACHIMAN, GIFU PREF. – Alan Booth, a writer rarely given to dispensing easy compliments, could be a dyspeptic traveler when destinations did not live up to his expectations. After a long walk through the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, the riverine settle…

Jeremiah Owyang is a Silicon Valley-based analyst, and one of the best trend spotters in the business. Technology has fulfilled many promises from connecting the world, enabling transparency to increase the speed of otherwise slow processes. While we can and…

Joining the Dots is a weekly column by author and journalist Samrat in which he connects events to ideas, often through analysis, but occasionally through satire *** On Thursday, 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. The celebrations will co…

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org I used to be a Democrat, until the majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted in 2002 for George W. Bushs 2003 catastrophic invasion of Iraq, even though everything that Bush and his Administration …

Yves here. As John Siman describes below, Richard Vague, who has done considerable work on the economic damage done by high levels of private debt, extended it by making an in-depth study of financial crises. Vague documents that private debt growth over time…

Despite the threats from firm-bodied and closeminded elitist liberals who threatened to boycott Soul Cycle and Equinox health clubs upon learning that  a major investor, Steven Ross, planned to host a fundraiser for President Donald J. Trump (R) at his estate…

Headline-seeking Democrat politicians and their comrades in the liberal-left media have unanimously and incessantly blamed President Donald Trump for recent shooter killings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The president, they claim, triggered both atroci…

California, the birthplace of the American tech industry, is emerging as a great foe. On Monday, the state legislature resumes and will consider a bill that, if passed, could classify drivers for ride-hailing companies like Uber Technologies Inc. UBER -6.8…

In and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, Michael Hudson offers a historical account of the role that debt played in ancient societies. In focusing on how such societies dealt with the pr…

Going home: Muslims in Cirebon, Indonesia, on their way to their parents for the Eid holiday to mark the end of Ramadan Dasril Roszandi · Nurphoto · Getty Late on a humid afternoon, the Surabaya Street flea market by the canal was almost deserted, peaceful …