Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

BBC News reports, “Many in the armed forces feel that too few civilians fully appreciate the drive to serve in combat.”
So, that’s why US taxpayers are paying a billion dollars per day on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s a safari to keep soldiers entertained… or a turkey shoot, considering that more than 100,000 Iraqis [...]

This is a video produced by Japanese artist, Isao Hashimoto, which depicts the 2,053 nuclear bombs detonated between 1945 and 1998.
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Lately, my focus has been significantly less on LMF Theory than in the past and almost exclusively on the more uplifting prospect of fostering international development through business education, specifically finance.
Of course, one way that individuals can prosper is to short-sell stupidity, ignorance, and lies, but that is not the only route that one can [...]

‘Progressive’ activist, Jack A. Smith, has uncovered some interesting information concerning Pres. Obama’s Long War plans.
“[The] documents and deeds include the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Ballistic Missile Defense Report, the nuclear security summit in New York and the May 3-28 United Nations nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, as well [...]

Recently, a very nice individual alerted me to Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, which you can download for free in the format of your choice.
Little Brother looks like an interesting read. I’ve downloaded it within an hour of typing these lines and read the first two pages. I’ll write a full review later, if [...]

Even though Karl Polanyi drew many false conclusions in the latter sections, more people should reread the first section of The Great Transformation.
The existence of two Great Powers today — China and the USA — is unstable and leads to a winner-take-all orientation. As Polanyi noted, we need at least three major powers keeping each [...]

BBC News reports, “A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.”
Wired reports, “[T]horium could solve the nuclear power industry’s most intractable problems.”
According to the Wired article, among the advantages of thorium over uranium are:

It yields very little waste, which must be stored for a [...]

A People’s History of American Empire
by Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen

Invest accordingly.
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Remember how Osama bin Laden’s son said, in a strip club in Damascus, Syria — hrm?!? — that Osama bin Laden has achieved his goal of humbling America, that he probably won’t order any more attacks on America, and that he is worth more to the Americans alive than dead?
The Los Angeles Times reports that [...]

While reading Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff’s dry-but-delightful This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, I came across a reference to David Hale’s “The Newfoundland Lesson” on page 83.
Newfoundland became the first self-governing dominion of the British Empire in 1855, and ceased to exist as a self-governing entity in 1934, after [...]