The Dark Years

Today, on Max Keiser's television show, Egon von Greyerz made the following rather humorous observation:

"There are some small residential properties in the heart of London that have a $250 million dollar price tag.... And, what, we saw a painting, the other day, a Gauguin or Picasso or something like that go for more than $200 million. So you see, the rich people, what they can do for half a billion dollars - well, they can live in a small empty apartment in London, with nothing inside... and one painting on the wall..."

Egon von Greyerz - he wrote something
called 'The Dark Years Are Here.'

Max went on to say something about The Fed lending into some parallel Universe.

It was all quite droll.

It was really quite funny. I laughed. They went to a break in which we saw a couple of children crying in a war zone or refugee camp or somewhere, in a 'news slice.'

And then we returned to Egon saying to Max that there was no way governments would actually stop money printing now from here on, One, because that was all they knew how to do, and Two, because they spent the money on buying votes. Oh it was cruel.

He was such a nice looking rather mature and timid, if blond, old gentleman. And clearly very wealthy himself.

If I were Julius Caesar - which I am not, thankfully - I would make a bold statement right now that no one would credit.

Anyway. Let's look at our friend Julius. I make it a rule these days never to seriously debate anyone who hasn't read the following books, and been tested by an independent person to indicate that they HAVE actually read them rather then just claiming to have read them (which a lot of facile people, including many modern University professors, do):

The Complete Works of Julius Caesar

The Complete Works of C.G. Jung

Anaximander

The Early Works of Plato (at minimum)

Xenophon

Stuart Hollingdale (if they haven't studied Euclid in detail)

Marsilio Ficino (at minimum, for the Venetian/Florentine Renaissance)

Now have a look at what this advertisement says about the books of Caesar, by Caesar - it says 'forgotten books...' Why forgotten? Are they forgotten, because, as, in the words of the famed Clinton Richard Dawkins, the people of that time were 'ignorant and primitive,' and thus any works by them may not be necessary reading for intellectuals and intelligent modern people generally? 

At some point, the intelligent
person must read this

I can assure you that Mr. Dawkins has NEVER read The Complete Works of Julius Caesar.

And it doesn't matter what he says to you, if you ever get the chance to ask him about it, he has never read it.

Now I know that I may easily turn off some of those who read here, by saying these kinds of things, but they simply must be said - One, because they are a most accurate truth about the modern world and the experts and authorities who take the stage here, and Two, because even the most ardent and committed supporter of any of the several wunderkind examples of today's intellectuals, will have it somewhere in the back of their mind now that all is not necessarily as it seems to be, every time they listen anew to the 'approved thinkers.' 

I mean why, do you suppose, 'the forgotten...?' Forgotten by whom? Encouraged to be forgotten by whom? 

What is actually, forgettable, about them?

The government of Singapore spends atrocious sums of money promoting 'the smart society.'

You will not find them promoting the intellectual society.

So can you make money inside a world that prints paper money endlessly and gives it to a parallel Universe borrower, or to some 'rich person' who buys an empty flat and a painting? And then Mark Toner comes onto your television to give you latest truth from Washington while this is all happening...

Can you make money in such a world?

After Caesar was murdered, Rome carried on, donkeys attended the Senate - although at least they were made to wear the SPQR cloak - and fires and poems and music and insurgencies from slaves and so on attended every Caesar since Julius. And does anyone really much know exactly when the Empire of Rome actually collapsed?

Senatus Populusque Romanus
'for the Senate, and the people of Rome'

When you set out to invest your money, or to attempt to make money, did you start at any of those above books? Or did you jump-cut to The Revised Edition of The Money Masters?

Now there were rich people in ancient Rome post-Caesar, who yet were not at the very top, not actually among the so-called 'elite.' And they thrived. Who were they? What did they do? What did they know?

This question is not semantics. Upon the right answers, depends any possible chance a person has of economic and financial advancement, in today's world.