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A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision
A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision Putting the World on a Paper Standard Half a century ago one of the most disastrous monetary policy decisions in US history was committed by Richard Nixon. In a television address, the president declared that the nation would no longer redeem internationally dollars for gold. Since the […]
The Ethics of a Gold Standard
The Ethics of a Gold Standard The efficacy of a metallic monetary system is beyond dispute at least among real economists which eliminates just about 95% of whom are now engaged in the “profession.” Money, which gold is, allows for specialization, the division of labor, and provides the means for mankind to escape from barter and, […]
Demonocracy: The Great Human Scourge!
Demonocracy: The Great Human Scourge! Review: Christophe Buffin de Chosal, The End of Democracy, Translated by Ryan P. Plummer. Printed in the U.S.A.: Tumblar House, 2017. Introduction One cannot speak too highly of Christophe Buffin de Chosal’s The End of Democracy. In a fast paced, readable, yet scholarly fashion, Professor Buffin de Chosal* demolishes the ideological justification in which […]
Debt, Death, and the US Empire
Debt, Death, and the US Empire In a talk which garnered little attention, one of the Deep State’s prime operatives, National Security Advisor John Bolton, cautioned of the enormous and escalating US debt. Speaking before the Alexander Hamilton Society, Bolton warned that current US debt levels and public obligations posed an “economic threat” to the nation’s […]
Debt, Death, and the US Empire
Debt, Death, and the US Empire Yosemite Sam Gets Worried About Federal Debt In a talk which garnered little attention, one of the Deep State’s prime operatives, National Security Advisor John Bolton, cautioned of the enormous and escalating US debt. Deep State operative John Bolton, a.k.a. Yosemite Sam [PT] Photo credit: Mark Wilson / […]
Savings–Not Tariffs Will Make America Great Again
Savings–Not Tariffs Will Make America Great Again While the farcical Kavanaugh confirmation hearings dominated the news cycle for the past couple of weeks, little mention was made of a disturbing economic headline – the August US trade deficit. Despite all the bluster from the Trump Administration about “winning trade wars” and “trade wars are easy,” […]
The Gold Standard: Protector of Individual Liberty and Economic Prosperity
The Gold Standard: Protector of Individual Liberty and Economic Prosperity A Piece of Paper Alone Cannot Secure Liberty The idea of a constitution and/or written legislation to secure individual rights so beloved by conservatives and among many libertarians has proven to be a myth. The US Constitution and all those that have been written and […]
The Fed’s “Inflation Target” is Impoverishing American Workers
The Fed’s “Inflation Target” is Impoverishing American Workers Redefined Terms and Absurd Targets At one time, the Federal Reserve’s sole mandate was to maintain stable prices and to “fight inflation.” To the Fed, the financial press, and most everyone else “inflation” means rising prices instead of its original and true definition as an increase in […]
“Strong Dollar”, “Weak Dollar” – What About a Gold-Backed Dollar?
“Strong Dollar”, “Weak Dollar” – What About a Gold-Backed Dollar? Contradictory Palaver The recent hullabaloo among President Trump’s top monetary officials about the Administration’s “dollar policy” is just the start of what will likely be the first of many contradictory pronouncements and reversals which will take place in the coming months and years as the […]
Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel
Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel The promoters of crypto currencies have gushingly touted them as the mechanism by which the present central banking cabal and the system of nation states which derive much of their power from will be brought down and replaced by digital money. Despite their meteoric rise as speculative “assets,” there are […]
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief!
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief! If a world conflagration, God forbid, should break out during the Trump Administration, its genesis will not be too hard to discover: the thin-skinned, immature, shallow, doofus which currently resides in the Oval Office! This past week, the Donald has continued his bellicose talk with both veiled and explicit threats against purported […]
The United States of Hubris
The United States of Hubris If anyone should have any questions about whether the United States of America is not the most aggressive, warlike, and terroristic nation on the face of the earth, its latest proposed action against the supposed rogue state of North Korea should allay any such doubts. Last week, the US circulated a […]
Bitcoin in an Illusionary Age
Bitcoin in an Illusionary Age It is altogether fitting that crypto currencies, in particular Bitcoin, have witnessed a meteoric rise in this illusionary age. Not only has their monetary value gone to dizzying heights, but they are now being touted as the destroyer of the current, crumbling monetary order and the next paradigm upon which a […]
The American Empire and Economic Collapse
The American Empire and Economic Collapse Despite the widespread hope among libertarians, classical liberals, non-interventionists, progressive peaceniks, and all those opposed to the US Empire that it may have some of its murderous reins pulled in with the election of Donald Trump, it appears that such optimism has now been dashed. While the hope for a […]
Welcome to Totalitarian America, President Trump!
Welcome to Totalitarian America, President Trump! Trump vs. the Deep State If there had been any doubt that the land of the free and home of the brave is now a totalitarian society, the revelations that its Chief Executive Officer has been spied upon while campaigning for that office and during his brief tenure as […]