First, because it serves to distinguish us favorably from other financial and economic newsletters. There are many places you can go, both mainstream and alternative, for in-depth coverage of global finance, economics and politics; but there are few that will present their information to you in terms of a specific legal context that you can use to your own personal advantage.
Second, even though modern America is perhaps the most litigous (and "over-lawyered") society in known history, the average American is almost completely ignorant of the law. This is due in large part to the fact that the Bar is (literally) a closed union shop and is able to exercise near-total monopoly control over nearly every aspect of the U.S. legal industry.
But perhaps the most important reason we take such a serious look at the Law in our letter is due to the one of the King's Bench Cornerstones: always watch (and be wary of) the central banks. It will be found, upon even superficial review, that banking is unlike any other business or profession in the world. It is of necessity profoundly juristic in character, and has for thousands upon thousands of years been deeply interwoven with the "Bench" (that it is to say, with the legal profession). In fact, in most West European languages, the words for "bank" (in the financial sense) and "bench" (in the legal sense, as in where the judge or king sits) are identical.1 English too offers a whole host of such "double entendres" by which the deep (and often very subtle) links between banking, law and commerce are betrayed, many of which can be sourced to England's long history with merchant banking and trading: Sears makes a "sail"2 whenever you buy a new appliance there; if you buy it from them, they will "ship" it to you; the "banks" of a river direct the flow of "current," while the "banks" of commerce direct the flow of "currency" (i.e., money "current"); When a merchant sets "sale"2 for his destination, he does so upon the "current-sea" (i.e., the "currency"); the "captain" of the ship represents the "capital" (i.e., money) the ship is transporting, etc.
Our purpose in bringing such examples to light is not to play word games or explore the semiotics of business and commerce, but rather to impress upon the reader as deeply as possible - in the brief space here allowed - just how closely linked the worlds of banking, law and commerce really are; links which have a direct impact on your wealth and prosperity and links which we explore routinely here at the King's Bench Letter.
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The British privateers entered into contracts of admiralty, on behalf of the King,
as they made their "sale" upon the "current-sea."
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Many of the adhesive legal contracts that today impair
Americans from enjoying the full fruits of their labor, including the
King's claim of monopoly control over the issuance and flow of all paper
fiat currency in his Realm, date back to the reign of King Richard II (reigned 1377-1399).
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