The Whole Eurozone Could Be Ablaze by New Year

Late Sunday night the EU announced that they have agreed upon an 85 Billion Euro ($113 Billion) bailout for Ireland. Early media reports sought to calm global stock markets by suggesting that crisis talks were over and the deal was just about inked. The problem is,...

The Art of Speculation

The rally in the dollar over the past few weeks serves as a good illustration of what it takes to be a good speculator. I can remember when I was new to the art of speculation. It was the early 1970s, and Richard Nixon, unilaterally and illegally, abolished the U.S....

Black Friday: America’s Running Of The Bulls

In Spain they have an annual running of the bulls, often dangerous, sometimes deadly. In America, we have our own version. It’s called Black Friday, a day when seemingly calm humans are transformed into animals. They’re predators that will stop at nothing...

Tip Of The Spear

The following article has been generously contributed by Simon Black The Sovereign Man. Military tacticians and historians often make use of the term ‘tip of the spear.’ It refers to a combat force that is used to puncture the enemy’s initial lines of defense,...