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A Colony Once Again

January 3, 2017 Leave a comment

A well-kept open secret: Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash – Norbert Häring

In early November, without warning, the Indian government declared the two largest denomination bills invalid, abolishing over 80 percent of circulating cash by value. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of the decisive role that Washington played in this. That is surprising, as Washington’s role has been disguised only very superficially. Read more of this post

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Ford Family – Passing Wealth Down The Generations

July 11, 2012 3 Comments

To pay for the New Deal, meant to pull America out of the Great Depression, FDR raised taxes in America.A per the new tax laws in 1935, taxes were raised to 50 percent on estates over $4 million and to 70 percent on those over $50 million.Henry Ford didn’t like the implications of these taxes for his business.You can read about his reasoning in these excerpts from newspapers of that time: