Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis Articles
"Whether the single medium is gold, silver, seashells, cattle, or tobacco is optional, depending on the context and development of a given economy. In fact, all have been employed at various times, as media of exchange. Even in the present...
It has always fascinated me to hear the mainstream’s interpretation of the gold standard. The great majority – including many who are part and parcel to the financial elite – elicit a knee-jerk response to its mere utterance.
Behind the scenes (or rather, behind the curtain of propaganda) the most influential of the banking class is sending out smoke signals. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is the bank for central banks, has telegraphed the...
Modern achievements, especially in medicine and technology (fueled by cheap energy), have made the human experience longer and easier. Yet, at the base of it all lays the irrational man, still flinging immorality from the cages of his...
The precious metals are lynch pins. They are nagging and persistent counter-parties to money printing gone wild. It's been this way for as long as commerce was semi-civilized. (Though given the amount of financial fraud, violence, and...
Nearly seven years after the world's greatest financial crisis, we remain in monetary emergency mode, an irony matched only by the last minute (literal, and relatively quiet) battening down of the monetary hatches.
The slow and steady rise of socialism in the modern era has officially peaked with the recent release Thomas Piketty's new best-seller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. The book arrives as a time traveler from the distant past,...
"...Even though the property was originally stolen, that if the victim or his heirs cannot be found, and if the current possessor was not the actual criminal who stole the property, then title to that property belongs properly, justly, and...
The tie between money and politics is inseparable. Money, economics, and currency seem more palpable and less prone to fits of emotion. Unfortunately, the degree to which monetary issues are misunderstood seems to negatively correlate with...
Big money speaks through politics. And both seem to be itching for a fight. It is forbidden to have real money compete with currencies. In much the same way, it is also unacceptable for the masses to become aware of the real depth of the...
