Tag: Economy

At The Corner of Debt and Implosion

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.  This alignment destroys the natural wealth of localities, the local economies of households, neighborhoods and communities and so destroys democracy…” Wendell Berry The GDP first quarter growth…

The New Green Deal is Back!

Last year Democrats hid most of their green agenda inside the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ which will add trillions to federal debt, according to Daniel Turner, of Power the Future. “While Americans pay $1.70 more per gallon of gas since…

The Party of Compassion – Seriously?

Over the years Democrats have cast themselves as the party of compassion using envy to promulgate class warfare in the name of fairness. They throw out the race card, corporate greed, religious intolerance and social justice to put conservatives on…

The Population Implosion

Since the publication in 1968 of Professor Paul Ehrich’s book, The Population Bomb, we have beaten over the head with the idea that the only way to save the planet was to quit having so many children or face starvation.…

Creating Money From Nothing

In 2020, Fitch Ratings estimated that the world’s central banks would create a total of $6 trillion that year. Of course, they won’t literally be printing the money – that would be physically impossible.  You’d have to stack $100 bills…

Why Is Freedom Always the Problem?

Many Americans agree that something hasn’t smelled right about this pandemic.    Besides not having sufficient data to justify the extremity of government reaction, there is something in the air that smacks of calculated panic and political engineering.  It is…

The Debt Death Spiral

In the 14 months since the World Health Organization first declared covid-19 a health emergency, Congress has approved over $4 trillion in relief packages and the Federal Reserve has pumped almost $6 trillion into the economy.  Such deficit spending and…

Currency War

The Chinese government made a move on January 16 of this year that one financial expert foresees as the beginning of the end of the American dollar as a world currency.  Hoping to use a “digital” yuan to oust the…

Bureaucracy

“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”  Laurence J. Peter Who creates federal laws? Civics books say it is Congress, but the real answer today may be the executive branch. Unfortunately,…

Cycle of Life for America

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic (Greece) some 2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist…

Killing Cash

“Cash is problematic to banks. It is expensive to manage, hard to take from customers and, worst of all, it is a possible gaping wound, if a bank run occurs. In a world without cash, customers would be forced to…