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Lessons From Wall Street: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Lessons From Wall Street: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. That’s all you’re seeing in efforts to manage information via censorship, algorithm changes, “fact” checking, Russian propaganda panic, etc. Humans are story-driven animals, so if you control the stories you control the humans. ❖ Lessons from […]
Goodbye, Free Market
Goodbye, Free Market Fremdschämen. Fremdschämen is a noun of the German language. It translates this way: Embarrassment for those incapable of feeling embarrassment. Today we suffer embarrassment for Mr. Jerome Powell and his fellows of the Federal Reserve… For no action they take lowers their heads in shame… or blushes their cheeks with embarrassment. Mr. […]
Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix There is no legitimate basis upon which to support monopolistic plutocratic megacorporations with extensive government ties silencing dissident voices in order to control the thoughts that people think about Covid-19. This is true regardless of your stance on the virus itself. […]
Cover-19 and the Death of Market Fundamentalism
COVID-19 AND THE DEATH OF MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM On top of the countless human tragedies, there will be many long-lasting social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps none will be more profound though, than the death of free market fundamentalism and the return of the State. Why now? After all, there have long been […]
The Rush To A Cashless Society Only Serves Globalist Interests
The Rush To A Cashless Society Only Serves Globalist Interests A fundamental pillar of true free markets is the existence of choice; the availability of options from production to providers to purchase mechanisms without interference from governments or corporate monopolies. Choice means competition, and competition drives progress. Choice can also drive changes within society, for […]
Liberal Capitalism as the Ideology of Freedom and Moderation
LIBERAL CAPITALISM AS THE IDEOLOGY OF FREEDOM AND MODERATION Nowadays, many along the political spectrum seem to agree that America increasingly has become a polarized society. Ideological and public policy discourse has been gravitating more toward the extremes: progressives and the Democratic Party with a more explicitly socialist rhetoric and proposed government agenda, and conservatives […]
Hitler’s Economics
Hitler’s Economics For today’s generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history, and his regime the archetype of political evil. This view does not extend to his economic policies, however. Far from it. They are embraced by governments all around the world. The Glenview State Bank of Chicago, for example, recently praised Hitler’s economics […]
How a Free Market Inevitably Produces Dictatorship
How a Free Market Inevitably Produces Dictatorship Who rules the land? A deeper and truer version of this question is: What rules the land? Is it the money (the aristocracy), or is it the people (the public, the residents on that land)? (For the interest of paleoconservatives, the issue of residents’ citizenship will come later here, as “immigrants” […]
The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term
The West Continues to Rot at the Core as it Obsesses Over the Short-term The stock market, by and large, is a farce. This is not to say that it does not have a purpose, because undoubtedly it does. This cannot and will not be denied, except by those who identify themselves as having anarchist […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
Regulation–The Hidden Curse
REGULATION – THE HIDDEN CURSE Regulations are nearly always introduced with the best intentions. In financial services, they aim to stop unscrupulous brokers and banks from ripping off the public through bad practices. Manufacturers are banned from making products which are dangerous to children, the environment, or which might fail through shoddy workmanship. However, state […]
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
GOVERNMENTS CREATE MONOPOLIES AND CAUSE WORKER EXPLOITATION, NOT FREE MARKETS The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in […]
When the Game Changes
WHEN THE GAME CHANGES “In a free market, the price and quantity of an item are determined by the supply and demand for that item.” ‘The function and nature of markets’ on boundless.com. In their efforts to jam the square peg of financial theory into the round hole of human nature, economists have perpetrated some pretty stupid […]
The Follies and Fallacies of Keynesian Economics
THE FOLLIES AND FALLACIES OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Eighty years go, on February 4, 1936, one of the most influential books of the last one hundred years was published, British economist, John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. With it was born what has become known as Keynesian Economics. Within less than a […]
