A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL, ON THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH AMERICA; IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE’s ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION of AMREICA [sic] ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP. BY THOMAS PAINE, SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR, AND AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE, AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN. LONDON: […]

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE By Thomas Paine Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway VOLUME III. 1791-1804 G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London Copyright, 1895 By G. P. Putnam’s Sons Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD VOLUME. I. THE REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION II. TO THE AUTHORS OF “LE RÉPUBLICAIN.” III. TO THE ABBÉ SIÈYES IV. TO THE […]

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE VOLUME II. By Thomas Paine Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway 1779 – 1792 [Redactor’s Note: Reprinted from the “The Writings of Thomas Paine Volume I” (1894 – 1896). The author’s notes are preceded by a “*”. A Table of Contents has been added for each part for the […]

THE AMERICAN CRISIS. EDITOR’S PREFACE. THOMAS PAINE, in his Will, speaks of this work as The American Crisis, remembering perhaps that a number of political pamphlets had appeared in London, 1775-1776, under general title of “The Crisis.” By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine’s writings, one essay in the London “Crisis” was […]

HISTORY OF FLORENCE AND OF THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT By Niccolo Machiavelli Contents INTRODUCTION THE FLORENTINE HISTORY OF NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI BOOK I CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII BOOK II CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III […]

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE by JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge New York Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920 PREFACE The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was their official representative at the Paris Peace Conference up to June 7, 1919; he […]

AUTOBIOGRAPHY by JOHN STUART MILL CONTENTS CHAPTER I 1806-1819 CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION CHAPTER II 1813-1821 MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH—MY FATHER’S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS CHAPTER III 1821-1823 LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF SELF-EDUCATION CHAPTER IV 1823-1828 YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM—THE “WESTMINSTER REVIEW” CHAPTER V 1826-1832 A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY—ONE STAGE ONWARD CHAPTER […]

De Amicitia, Scipio’s Dream By Cicero Translated, with an Introduction and Notes By Andrew P. Peabody SYNOPSIS. * * * * * DE AMICITIA 1. Introduction. 2. Reputation of Laelius for wisdom. The curiosity to know how he bore the death of Scipio. 3. His grounds of consolation in his bereavement 4. He expresses his […]

Solutions For The Debt Crisis © Martin A. Armstrong The general perception of interest rates and debt within the financial community is about as far from reality and common sense as one might be in this day and age. With government deficits still a major problem and no solutions from the political arena in sight, one […]

Part I of IV—A Brief History of World Credit & Interest Rates by Martin A. Armstrong ©Copyright PEI  3000 BC – 500 AD—The Rise and Fall of Babylon – Greece – Rome Credit is usually thought of as a modern invention of perhaps only a few hundred years old. It is true that a few […]