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What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government
What We Don’t Elect Matters Most: Central Banking and the Permanent Government We’re Number One in wealth, income and power inequality, yea for the Fed and the Empire! If we avert our eyes from the electoral battle on the blood-soaked sand of the Coliseum and look behind the screen, we find the powers that matter […]
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics As the election nears, politicians will more and more frantically point out what wonderful favors they’ve done for the voters — or what favors they will do for the voters, if elected. Of course, they never mean all the voters. They mean groups or individuals within the voting […]
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I’ve outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? and Checking In on the Four Intersecting […]
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard?
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard? The Miami Herald reports that a local couple is going all the way to the state supreme court to fight a local ordinance banning front-yard vegetable gardens: Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard […]
Bureaucratic Insanity: Free to be Slaves
Bureaucratic Insanity: Free to be Slaves Schools in America today are less concerned about the overall welfare of students than they are with making sure that they obey all the rules, no matter how pointless, and produce good test scores. The emphasis on mindless obedience and rote learning prepares them for dehumanizing office work, where […]
When Collapse Is Cheaper and More Effective Than Reform
When Collapse Is Cheaper and More Effective Than Reform Collapse begins when real reform becomes impossible. We all know why reforms fail: everyone whose share of the power and money is being crimped by reforms fights back with everything they’ve got. Reforms that can’t be stopped by the outright purchase of politicos are watered down […]
Civil Service Infected by Culture of Intimidation, Say Former Top Bureaucrats
Civil Service Infected by Culture of Intimidation, Say Former Top Bureaucrats Kevin Page and Linda Keen say their experiences show need for reform. No matter who forms government after Monday’s election, they need to move quickly to end the culture of intimidation, inefficiency and top-down management that infects Canada’s public service, say two former top […]
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 […]
