Economists as a lot are a curious group of people. Their most useful function is arguably predicting and preventing financial collapses. Yet, these academics who gain so much notoriety and traction during times of financial …

America’s great private universities have either been involved in price-fixing for the past decade or the US government has been manipulating the real rate of inflation. Which do you believe is most likely?
American Compass has …

Adam Ferguson’s 1975 text of the social and moral collapse of Germany during the Weimar Republic is a must read for 2010. He details how Europe’s most austere and respected society disintegrated into belligerence, upheaval …

American Compass has six easy steps to steal the stored wealth of virtually all the citizens of a country. Not possible? Well, it first takes a government.
Step 1: Create Inflation
Inflation must be steady and somewhat …

In the latest affront to the individual, new data shows that gold has significantly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average in real money terms over the past four decades.
In real money terms, the Dow Jones …