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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 […]
The War Against Change
The War Against Change Last week’s post explored the way that the Democratic party over the last four decades has abandoned any claim to offer voters a better future, and has settled for offering them a future that’s not quite as bad as the one the Republicans have in mind. That momentous shift can be […]
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes
Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes Since the status quo has no workable Plan B to “growth” in an economy in which household incomes have declined 8.5% in a supposedly expanding economy, real solutions must arise outside the status quo. It’s a lot easier to talk about what’s wrong with the status quo and […]
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash The problem with these policy extremes is that they are so painfully visibly acts of central-planning desperation. It is perhaps fitting that I am posting a call for a financial crisis that fails to respond to the usual central-planning manipulations on Bastille Day. There are two main lessons […]
What Choice Do We Have?
What Choice Do We Have? As systemic solutions fall short, we must grasp the nettle of making our own arrangements in a time characterized by burgeoning demands and diminishing resources, capital and security. The idea that our large-scale problems could be fixed with systemic reforms is enticing: replace the thousands of pages of tax code with […]
Our Phantom Economy
Our Phantom Economy Those who believe that phantom recoveries and phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next downturn. Stripped of artifice, there are only two kinds of media stories: those that support the status quo narrative, and those that are skeptical of that narrative. What is the status […]
Surplus Repression and the Self-Defeating Deep State
Surplus Repression and the Self-Defeating Deep State The nation is wallowing self-piteously in a fetid trough of denial and adolescent rage/magical thinking now that the nation’s bogus, debt-based “prosperity” has crashed and cannot be restored. If you type Deep State into the custom search window in the right sidebar, the search results fill 10 pages. I think it […]
The Regulatory State – Central Planning and Bureaucracy on a Rampage
The Regulatory State – Central Planning and Bureaucracy on a Rampage The New 10,000 Commandments Report – It’s Worse than Ever Before we begin, we should mention that the US economy has long been one of the least regulated among the major regulatory States of the so-called “free” world, and to a large extent this […]
How to Change the World Overnight
How to Change the World Overnight Making a Difference Mark Twain said: If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. In other words, if the government is not trying to stop something, it must not be very important. On the flip side of the coin, the great historian Howard Zinn noted: Protest always looks futile at […]
The 2014 Elections by the Numbers – Who are the 1% of 1% Driving American Politics?
The 2014 Elections by the Numbers – Who are the 1% of 1% Driving American Politics? That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an […]
The High Cost of Centrally Planning the Global Climate
The High Cost of Centrally Planning the Global Climate Since I’m not a person who follows the climate-change debate or climate science in detail, I don’t get involved in discussions over temperature readings or climate trends. On the other hand, I find it’s a very bad idea to leave the science of economics and political […]
Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma
Our Financial Future: Infinite Greed Meets a Funny Thing Called Karma All those angered by the mere question of the viability of this predatory pillaging in the name of capitalism are incapable of even admitting this cultural crisis exists. Somewhere along the line, we lost the ability to distinguish between earning a profit and maximizing private gain by […]
Noam Chomsky: “The Idea Of A Media Which Does Not Repeat US Propaganda Is Intolerable To American Leaders”
Noam Chomsky: “The Idea Of A Media Which Does Not Repeat US Propaganda Is Intolerable To American Leaders” Few individuals polarize the public with their opinions, statements and mere presence, like Noam Chomsky. The 86 year old linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate, has strong opinions (and in […]
How Trustworthy Are U.S. & Western ‘News’ Media?
How Trustworthy Are U.S. & Western ‘News’ Media? During the days of the Soviet Union, and in all dictatorial countries, the ‘news’ media were and are actually propaganda-media, which filter out information that the aristocracy (the people holding the real power, which in the Soviet Union were the Communist Party bosses) don’t want the public […]
Portrait of the American Oligarchy – The Very Troubling Income and Wealth Trends Since 1989
Portrait of the American Oligarchy – The Very Troubling Income and Wealth Trends Since 1989 One of the primary purposes of Liberty Blitzkrieg is to dispel the myth that America is politically a democracy and economically a free market, and prove that it is in fact a centrally planned oligarchy. If the people were well aware of this […]
