Peering Into the Crystal Ball, We See… Instability Leading to Collapse
We can only choose one: open, dynamic stability (evolution) or autocracy (instability and collapse)…
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Why I Love “Price Discrimination”
The practice of selling the same product to different buyers at different prices is called “price discrimination”, and this failure to charge a uniform price to all customers is…
Continue readingSurveys or Specifics: Do Economies Respond to Consumer Expectations or the Facts at Hand?
In a free market economy, individuals’ expectations will tend to move in tandem with reality, and this contrasts with…
Continue readingPrivate Property Rights Under Siege
Most citizens only realize the risks they’re facing only when it’s too late to do anything about it…
Continue readingSilver, Gold, Aliens & Hidden Artifacts! What Else Are They Hiding From Humanity?
“…billions and billions and billions of ounces…it’s all going to play into the new monetary system…”
Continue reading“Real innovation and progress happen beyond Big Tech”
Over the last decade, we’ve seen a rapid acceleration in the consolidation of “Big Tech”, resulting in…
Continue readingPoliticized Money, The Death Of Capitalism, And Gold
In the end, the last say (and laugh) goes to…
Continue readingFree Speech…Who’s Afraid Of Elon Musk?
Anyone who values free speech, which should include everyone who cherishes liberty, should not fall for the claim that…
Continue readingFully And Entirely Organic Gold-Backed Currency
The big picture here is clear and it is essential to understand that it…
Continue readingWe know ‘crazy’ when we see it…
Let the crazies talk. Everyone needs to see it for themselves…
Continue readingThe Wrong Elites: We Need Better Ones
The politically connected class in America spent the last hundred-plus years ruining education, medicine, diplomacy (peace), money, banking, big business, literature, art, and…
Continue readingCan Government Successfully Counter Recessions Through Expansionary Policies? Don’t Count on It
Whenever the signs of an economic weakness emerge, most economic and political commentators declare that the government should…
Continue readingAmerica’s Trade Deficit: An Enormous Concern
Trump wisely spoke little about trade during his unsuccessful 2020 re-election bid and, surprisingly…
Continue readingOn Important, Unconventional Economic Thinkers Shut Out By The Mainstream
It is a regrettable fact, but a fact nonetheless…
Continue readingThe U.S. Ban On Avocados Imported From Mexico Shows The High Cost Of Nontariff Protectionism
The fact that a US regulatory agency can unilaterally end imports from Mexico, coupled with the fact that…
Continue readingThe New Anti-Economics (That’s Not Even New)
Professional economics is in big trouble…
Continue readingThe Slippery Slope And The Infantilization Of The Economic Actor
It’s one thing for a government to justify its interventions and the suppression of financial freedom by claiming…
Continue readingFed Monetary Policy Is No Substitute For Monetary Reform
America was meant to be a land of individual liberty, not a land of ruling “experts.” The economic problem can be fixed with sound money and…
Continue readingOn The Gold Standard, How Governments Seized Control Of Money, And The Total Abandonment Of Precious Metals
It would be a mistake to regard the era of the classical gold standard as a period of state weakness in financial and monetary matters. On the contrary…
Continue readingGovernment interventions and the Cobra effect
It always comes down to the hubris of central planners, who believe they can tame, micro-manage and control the…
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