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The 2026 award revives a fifty-year objection: economics keeps rewarding theories that overlook the power of creditors.

I stopped calling myself an economist back in the 1970s when it became obvious that what I was talking about - mainly debt, the balance of payments, monetary imperialism and history - was not what the academic curriculum was all about.

When Paul Samuelson got the Nobel Prize for his unrealistic insistence that free trade made all countries gain and become more equal in their labor/capital ratios, I wrote an article in the Catholic publications Commonweal urging that the prize stopped being given.

Par Key Market Reports - Le 8 octobre 2026 - Source Trend Compass

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Les sociétés occidentales semblent être extraordinairement sujettes aux crises. Nous sommes dans une sorte de crise perpétuelle et, d'une manière ou d'une autre, nos chers dirigeants semblent incapables de renverser la situation. Au contraire, les choses continuent d'empirer progressivement, tandis que nos dirigeants continuent de se préoccuper de qui ou quoi accuser : c'est Joe Biden et les Démocrates, c'est la faute des "gauchistes", des Musulmans, des Chinois, des Russes.

Par Yara Hawari

Et il n'y a rien de radical à l'affirmer. C'est un fait historique.

Dimanche, lors de son congrès annuel à Brighton, le Parti vert britannique a voté en faveur de la reconnaissance du sionisme comme une forme de racisme. La motion, qui décrit le sionisme comme "un projet politique ethnonationaliste", a été adoptée par 1 022 voix contre 813, malgré l'opposition de plusieurs députés du parti ainsi que de l'ancienne présidente du parti, Caroline Lucas.

By Doug Casey
International Man  

October 16, 2026

International Man: The world is in its most precarious geopolitical environment since World War 2.

Considering similar historical periods, what have been the most important investment implications of global conflict between the world's biggest powers?

Doug Casey: The big question is whether or not WW3 will go nuclear. And if it does, will it be just some relatively small-yield tactical bombs used against military formations ? Or will it get out of control, with strategic weapons used against cities ? Either is possible.

The horrors deliverable by Israel that might come next  

By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review  

October 16, 2026

Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States' model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly the sole superpower. That role was first tested in the Korean War, which produced something of a stalemate in a confrontation that included China, and led to a Ceasefire Agreement which is still in place to this day.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams  

October 16, 2026

A company should not disclose a risk of catastrophe to humanity and then sell its shares to the public before any public authority has the power to evaluate that risk or to stop deployment.

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, is preparing what could be the largest initial public offering in history, raising more than $100 billion, according to The New York Times, at a valuation near $2 trillion.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

October 16, 2026

Alexander Dugin thinks that if the Republicans lose control of Congress in the November 3 midterm elections, the Democrats will renew their attempt to prosecute Trump as a criminal and members of his administration as well. This is a real possibility.

We witnessed the Democrats during Trump's term and during Biden's four years use lawfare against Trump.

Moon of Alabama  

October 16, 2026

Last Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal about the export of Russian diesel. Payments for Russian oil products had previously been under U.S. sanctions. Soon after Trump's announcement the Treasury lifted those restrictions. Russian diesel to the U.S. and to global markets would lead to a decrease in prices at U.S. pumps.

Trump also announced an 'energy ceasefire' in Ukraine.

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute  

October 16, 2026

"You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong." - imdb.com

Cuckolded German people watch Ukrainian state agent on trial for blowing up critical German infrastructure while German government continues to send billions to Ukrainian oligarchs.  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

October 16, 2026

October 14, 2026, began what is surely one of the weirdest trials in European history.

The Venue is the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court (Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht) in Hamburg.

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

October 16, 2026

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This is a textbook case of how someone can reach the top of one field and still be utterly clueless about everything else. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg served as National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence and later as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. He is Co-Chair at the Center for American Security, America First Policy Institute, USA, which is a Neocon think tank.

By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform  

October 16, 2026

"And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time

By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos  

October 16, 2026

I have always had an ambivalent relationship with "conservatives," because I could never divine their principles. They want to "conserve"... what, exactly ? Their congressional majority ? Why ? What for ? How does that benefit me ? Conservatives are cautious about change - the disease of tired/mentally ossified old people. Many of them mean well but are ready meat for the Left, which does have a principle - which is to win and hold onto power by any means necessary.