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The Bulletin: April 10-16, 2025
The Bulletin: April 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle German Journalist David Bendels Sentenced for Satirical Post Targeting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser The Economics Of A Dying Empire The Sharp Turn: Global Collapse Picks Up Speed Uruguay – by Matt […]
Feeling the Heat of a Civilization on the Downside
Feeling the Heat of a Civilization on the Downside An Epic Folly for the Ages Today we begin with a list. A partial list. And in no particular order… Angela Merkel. Donald Tusk. Mario Draghi. Donald Trump. Jerome Powell. Shinzo Abe. Haruhiko Kuroda. Theresa May. Boris Johnson. Mark Carney. Xi Jinping. Emmanuel Macron. Vladimir Putin. Justin Trudeau. Juan Trump. And many, many more… […]
Why We Have a Surveillance State
Why We Have a Surveillance State It is the inevitable consequence of our prevailing governing philosophy. “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.” Henry Stimson, Secretary of State, 1929 I was upbraided recently by a dear friend for my frequent praise of outcast investor Peter Thiel over Thiel’s involvement with big data company Palantir. He […]
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains the Growth of Government
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains the Growth of Government Why do democracies lead to ever-growing states? We’ve all found ourselves at least a few times in our lives listening to friends or relatives complain about voter apathy. If only voters properly researched policies and politicians, everything would be better, we hear. Unfortunately, the incentives just aren’t […]
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis Criminalizing Cash Money sometimes goes “full politics”. Take poor Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard. He wants a dollar with a voter registration card, a U.S. flag on its windshield, and a handgun in its belt – the kind of money that supports the Establishment and votes for Hillary. Etatiste tool […]
The Keynesian House Of Denial
The Keynesian House Of Denial We use the term “Keynesian” loosely to stand for economic interventionists of all schools. The followers of JM Keynes and Milton Friedman alike fit that category. So do some of the more rabid supply siders who claim the power to stimulate ultra-high economic growth with the tools of tax policy alone. The […]
Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps
Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~Unknown proverb War is murder, no matter how you try to justify it. Taxation is theft, no matter how you try […]
Why did Lagarde Stay at the IMF? To Increase its Global Power.
Why did Lagarde Stay at the IMF? To Increase its Global Power. Christine Lagarde Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund spoke at the IMF Arab Fiscal Forum: Fiscal Policy and Growth in Abu Dhabi on February 22, 2016. Her message was clear – forget downsizing government or reforming anything, just raise taxes. She opened the conference saying: “This […]
Mid-Sized Meditations #11: Thoughts on Localism and Resilience
Mid-Sized Meditations #11: Thoughts on Localism and Resilience [Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic] Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak to the “Resilience Group,” an informal gathering of environmentalists, activists, and interested others that meet regularly at the home of Wes Jackson, in Salina, KS. My short remarks–which were mostly inspired by the material in this post–gave […]
The Statist Mindset
The Statist Mindset The Key Logical Fallacy of Statism I just read an article in Bloomberg View yesterday by Cass Sunstein, who is a law professor at Harvard. It was a roundup of a number of books published last year on “behavioral economics”. For those who don’t know it, behavioral economics typically focuses on the biases and systematic errors […]
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, […]
Gold and the Grave Dancers
Gold and the Grave Dancers The Asset They Love to Hate … Back in the 1960s, Alan Greenspan wrote a well-known essay that to this day is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the present-day monetary and economic system (which is a kind of “fascism lite” type of statism, masquerading as capitalism) […]
The world of Globalism, the galaxy of slavery
The world of Globalism, the galaxy of slavery “Try looking at the world as a giant three-volume science fiction novel. Organizations of stupefying complexity rule the scene. There is an upside to this. You can gain a much deeper understanding of the archetype of the Rebel against the system.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) “What’s that you said? […]
In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet
In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet The UN plans to launch a brand new plan for managing the entire globe at the Sustainable Development Summit that it will be hosting from September 25th to September 27th. Some of the biggest names on the planet, including Pope Francis, […]
