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China’s $6.6 Trillion Toxic Loan Problem
China’s $6.6 Trillion Toxic Loan Problem Rotting Vegetables “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot,” once remarked Ray Kroc, mastermind of the McDonald’s franchise empire. At the moment, no truer words can be spoken for China’s ripe economy. The Middle Kingdom’s 30-year economic boom is being […]
Chasing the Wild Goose in Davos
Chasing the Wild Goose in Davos Despite the reformers endless efforts to encircle mankind, some persist beyond the broad extent of their casted net. In the backwaters of the new Republic, for instance, the distant rumble and flicker of Saturday night hootenannies still befall yonder the mighty oak groves. In defiance of all things good […]
Do As You’re Told! – The Case For Social Engineering
Do As You’re Told! – The Case For Social Engineering Wherever we turn we are confronted with politicians, political pundits, television talking heads, and editorial page commentators, all of whom offer an array of plans, programs, and projects that will solve the problems of the world – if only government is given the power and […]
Stock Market Suffers Worst Start to the Year Ever – What Does it Mean?
Stock Market Suffers Worst Start to the Year Ever – What Does it Mean? A Dismal Beginning From December 30 to the end of the first week trading week of January, the DJIA has declined by roughly 7.7% (approx. 1,370 points) and the SPX by roughly 7.6% (approx. 160 points). This was nothing compared to […]
Central Bank Money Printing—-The Rotten Philosophy Beneath
Central Bank Money Printing—-The Rotten Philosophy Beneath If advocates of freedom were to make up a list of New Year’s resolutions for 2016, one of the most important items should be ending government’s monopoly control over money. In a free society, people in the marketplace should decide what they wish to use as money, not […]
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again The reputations of Ben and Janet are going to be eviscerated in 2016. That’s because the US economy will slide into recession in defiance of every claim they have made for their snake oil monetary policies. The plain fact is, massive falsification of financial markets via […]
A Free Market in Interest Rates
A Free Market in Interest Rates The Corn Control Agency Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve decide what’s good for the little people. Then they impose it on us. In trying to return to freedom, many people […]
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard We are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The U.S. Federal Reserve has manipulated key interest rates down to practically zero for the last six years, and expanded the money supply in the banking system by $4 trillion dollars over that time. And with […]
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness Cries for Going Totally Crazy are Intensifying What are the basic requirements for becoming the chief economist of the IMF? Judging from what we have seen so far, the person concerned has to be a died-in-the-wool statist and fully agree with the (neo-) Keynesian faith, […]
The Civilisation of Capitalism
The Civilisation of Capitalism This piece was written for The Cobden Centre by Vishal Wilde. Vishal Wilde is a finalist studying for a BSc (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Economics major) at the University of Warwick. He wishes to spend his life fighting for and defending freedom. He is a Freelance Journalist (writing, most recently, […]
The Paradox of Risk: Central Planning Is Linear, Reality Is Non-Linear
The Paradox of Risk: Central Planning Is Linear, Reality Is Non-Linear You thought it was safe to drive 90 miles an hour on a rain-slicked narrow road while you were tipsy because the airbag would save you, but it still hurts when you crash. I first discussed the Paradox of Risk in August, 2008, just before the […]
Why Big Tech May Be Getting Too Big
Why Big Tech May Be Getting Too Big Conservatives and liberals interminably debate the merits of “the free market” versus “the government.” Which one you trust more delineates the main ideological divide in America. In reality, they aren’t two separate things and there can’t be a market without government. Legislators, agency heads and judges decide […]
Riding ZIRP Into The Doom Loop—–Monetary Central Planning’s Dead End
Riding ZIRP Into The Doom Loop—–Monetary Central Planning’s Dead End What the Fed really decided Thursday was to ride the zero-bound right smack into the next recession. When that calamity happens not too many months from now, the 28-year experiment in monetary central planning inaugurated by a desperate Alan Greenspan after Black Monday in October 1987 will come to […]
Freedom And Central Planning Can Never Coexist
Freedom And Central Planning Can Never Coexist The average person is a statist, whether he realizes it or not. It is important that liberty activists recognize and accept this fact because the truth of our limitations as a movement determines the kinds of solutions into which we should ultimately put our time and energy. The […]
Affirmatively destroying America’s neighborhoods in the war on suburbia
Affirmatively destroying America’s neighborhoods in the war on suburbia Few of us understand patient gradualism. We live and have our being within a few years and mostly in an unconscious automated state of mind. But people in power are long-term planners. They absolutely understand human nature and how to channel it to the evolution and […]
