In the cycles of a society using fiat currency, there's the inevitable overuse and printing of more currency than the value of the society's assets. If they need money for war, they print. If they need money to give bread and circuses to the population to get re-elected, they print. If they owe favours, [...]
Category: Rise and Fall of Empires
Occupy Wall Street
This is a protest against inequality in a social order. Not that some have more and some have less, but that some people with more have gamed the system for personal gain at others' peril. The capitalist system allows a person to work hard in order to gain a better lifestyle. More work, or [...]
London Riots
This is worldwide unrest, and will spread to the U.S. and other countries, as fiat currencies have been printed endlessly, and the value of each dollar drops like a stone. If the U.S. is the world reserve currency, and has the only right to print paper money backed by nothing, no gold, then they will [...]
Rod and Ring
Rod and ring rod and ring ebb and flow on a pendulum swing A rod of iron and coil of gold, through wooden wheels, to steel, to oil Time moves to the rod and the ring Yang, yin Up down, near far, out in Our love is an electromagnetic thing Swing Rise and fall, boom [...]
Elaine Diane Taylor 