In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces the discoveries of some of the most important thinkers of recent history whose insights into the structure of reality provide the greatest answers to the questions: Is there a directionality in the universe? Does order govern chaos or visa versa and is there a scientific law…
Category: The American System
Ellen Brown and Matt Ehret Discuss Economic Warfare and the American Banking System
Ellen Brown (Founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of Web of Debt) and the Rising Tide Foundation’s Matt Ehret discuss American System of Political Economy, geopolitics and the nature of economic warfare. During this interview, Ellen and Matthew discussed the false polarization of Top Down (Keynesian) vs Bottom Up (Austrian School) thinking which has…
How to Overcome Today’s Crisis: A Lesson from 1933
As the world is swept up by a two fold crisis led by a global coronavirus pandemic and financial collapse, it is no wonder that America’s great president Franklin Roosevelt is on everyones’ mind. Faced with the collapse of the cultural, economic and social fabric of society after 4 years of depression, President Roosevelt launched…
Why Today’s Crisis forces a Re-Evaluation of “Value”
By Matthew Ehret Today’s international crisis has caused the world to confront a major blind spot in thinking which has gone unchecked for far too long: The belief that money holds intrinsic value. Not only has the reality of insufficient medical infrastructure across European and American nations cause a sudden alarm (despite the trend occurring…
FDR’s Anti-Colonial Vision for the Post-War World: ‘As He Saw It’ Revisited
By Matthew Ehret The 75th Anniversary of the passing of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt should give the world a chance to revisit the immortal life and courage of the man whom decades of revisionism have turned into a popular aristocratic cartoon character. The decades of intense of effort to distort the life of the…
Matthew Carey and the ‘American System’
By Gerald Therrien While, in many history sources, Mathew Carey is described as a ‘Jeffersonian republican’, the question arises, how did a supporter of Jefferson – the opponent of ‘federalist’ Alexander Hamilton, become the father of the ‘American System’, the defender of Hamiltonian economics and the opponent of the British free-trade policies of Adam…
Prometheus and America: The True Story of the American System by Anton Chaitkin
In this second presentation of the series “A Harmony of Interests: Inquiries into the True Nature of the American System“, sponsored by the Rising Tide Foundation, historian Anton Chaitkin (author of Treason in America [1984] and The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush [1991]) introduces his upcoming book and guides us through a powerful sweep of…
Colbert, Leibniz and Vattel: The Cameralist Roots of the American System
Everyone knows of the American Revolution and Declaration of 1776. Very few people know of the deeper historical currents and networks of republicans stretching across space and time that made this revolution happen and upon whose ideas, a system came into being which was named “The American System of Political Economy”. On Sunday July 12th,…
Why Canada Failed the ‘Ben Franklin Challenge’ in 1776
By Matthew Ehret July 1st is a strange day in Canada. From Pacific to the Atlantic coast, Canadians have made it an annual practice to paint maple leaves on their faces and party like there was no tomorrow. But what exactly does this day signify? It may be a bit of a bitter pill to swallow…
A Hamiltonian Solution for Africa (RTF Lecture with Lawrence Freeman)
It has become far too common for westerners to look upon the plight of Africa as a “permanent state of underdevelopment, poverty and famine” from which no genuine solution may ever arise. Citizens of the west are told repeatedly that giving $1/day is the only way they may play some positive role in alleviating Africa’s…
