Playing with fire: The most important geopolitical event in the 21st century?

News Commentary - US kidnapping and trial of a sitting president of a democratic country

Jan 5 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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November 2025

Chinese Lessons Part II: The Elixir of Growth & Prosperity

When China got a break: Deng Xiaoping imported the Japanese high growth formula

Nov 12, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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October 2025

Chinese Lessons - Part I: The darkest part of China's night, before the dawn of prosperity

Would a government kill 55 million of its own people? - Eugenics update on China

Oct 10, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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September 2025

Fed Faces Biggest Direct Challenge by a President since JFK - And this is a good thing

Donald Trump had promised to challenge the powers-that-be. It looks like he is not backing down against the Fed. Economists and media are defending the…

Sep 1, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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July 2025

Japanese Lesson: Crises are Created to Centralise Control and Destroy the Middle Class.

The Slow-Growth Experiment as Model for the West - A Primer on how the economy really works

Jul 21, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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June 2025

Bond Market Massacre Ahead: Financial Repression in the Land of the Free

Or Swan Song of the Long Tenors

Jun 3, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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April 2025

Asset Confiscation: How the State is Preparing to Take Your Money

The EU Commission & the German gov’t are preparing measures to confiscate people's assets – measures associated with communism. The EU is the Deep State…

Apr 18, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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March 2025

CBDC Shock in Europe: Will the Digital Euro already be introduced in October 2025?

A surprising recent remark by Christine Lagarde raised October 2025 as target date. But what does it really mean? How should we react?

Mar 11, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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February 2025

Germany: Longest Recession since the Great Depression, and that's just the start

After the 2nd year of contraction of German GDP in 2024, a rare third year of recession is likely in 2025. But the worst is yet to come after that...

Feb 24, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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January 2025

There ain't no equilibrium: A Conversation with “Artificial Intelligence” about Economics

How ChatGPT is reluctant to admit that there is no evidence for equilibrium – rendering mainstream economics a fairy tale and quite useless for policy…

Jan 6, 2025 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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December 2024

Debunking anti-bank propaganda

The regulators’ attack on small banks is part of the war on the middle class

Dec 8, 2024 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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September 2024

National debt explosion: The Fiscal Time Bomb and its Implications

US national debt has reached $35trn. Interest payments now exceed military spending and other secret service budgets combined. What are the…

Sep 24, 2024 • Richard A. Werner, D.Phil.

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