This print, one of the four greatest engravings by Albrecht Dürer, is actually a sermon by Dürer, in graphic form. First we note that the central figure, a seated angel, is scowling in hatred at the light and the rainbow in the background.

In 1941, when I was nine years’ old, my mother, Norah Price, took me out of a bi-lingual primary-school and placed me as a pupil under a tutor, an Englishman, Charles O. Robson; he prepared boys for entry into Preparatory Schools. Born in 1890, Robson was a Victorian through-and-through...

The great mass of the world's currencies are, like the Bitcoin and its fellows, simply digits on computer memories. No Central Bank wants its monetary digits to rise substantially in value against the other Central Bank monetary digits.

The energy from oil will cease to flow someday: petroleum is a finite, non-renewable natural resource. Perhaps that may happen sooner than we think due to a financial collapse.

What that great world monetary system based on the paper dollar has done to the US, was quite unexpected: it consists in obtaining foreign goods by tendering paper money in payment, something that is fundamentally fraudulent. And that fraud has come back to haunt the US, quite unexpectedly.