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The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025
The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Forests, Water, and Climate: Time for Re-Conceptualization A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness – resilience Modern Civilization is Proving to be a Very Fragile Thing The Reductionist Delusion: How We Got Climate […]
Powell, Do You Even Know What The Economy Is?
Powell, Do You Even Know What The Economy Is? To Clarify, Main Street Is Not Wall Street After all the destructive policies we have seen coming out of the Eccles Building, it may be time to ask Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, “Do you even know what the economy is?” All the easing and stimulus has […]
Macron – No taxation without representation
Macron – No taxation without representation The mass protests on the streets of French cities recall the first years of the American War of Independence. In the years before and during the American Independence Movement, the resentment that independence advocates harboured was that the Thirteen Colonies were obliged to pay taxes to the British Crown […]
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game Inflation, wealth redistribution, and the subtle art of misdirection The Federal Reserve is a key component of the US government’s wealth redistribution apparatus. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The […]
When America’s Fiscal Crisis Hits, Be Forewarned that Tax Increases Will Make a Bad Situation Worse
When America’s Fiscal Crisis Hits, Be Forewarned that Tax Increases Will Make a Bad Situation Worse When America’s fiscal crisis hits, remember that raising taxes will only exacerbate the problem. At some point in the next 10 years, there will be a huge fight in the United States over fiscal policy. This battle is inevitable […]
Taxation Is Robbery
Taxation Is Robbery [This article was originally published in 1947 as a pamphlet from Human Events Associates. It was reprinted in 1962 as chapter 22 of of Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist.] Mises.org The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines taxation as “that part of the revenues of a state which is obtained by the compulsory dues and charges […]
The Deep History of Taxation May Surprise You
The Deep History of Taxation May Surprise You For the majority of history, the idea of sustained taxation in peacetime was anathema. So what happened? Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. So goes the saying. And yet despite that, the idea of the necessity of taxation is largely undisputed, “consent” to its […]
The Great Deficit Ruse
The Great Deficit Ruse Your intuition is right: tax cuts are good and tax increases are bad. If your profligate friend blew his budget on liquor, you might feel bad for him. But it’s unlikely that you would be willing to fork over money to cover his mistake. He needs to figure it out. And […]
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver. Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a precious metal limits the […]
Looking Forward
Looking Forward Since its inception, International Man has offered prognostications about what the future will bring – economically, politically and socially. The principle writers of the publication have been at this for decades. Each one began by studying world economics and politics in order to make the best choices as to where to live, where to […]
Hate Taxes? You Certainly Are Not Alone…
Hate Taxes? You Certainly Are Not Alone… At this time of the year, millions of Americans are rushing to file their taxes at the last minute, and we are once again reminded just how nightmarish our system of taxation has become. I studied tax law when I was in law school, and it is one […]
Is it Government or Oligarchs?
Is it Government or Oligarchs? QUESTION: Martin, I am a capitalist and what we have today is the least efficient form of capitalism. Actually it is quite a destructive and dangerous form of capitalism when the concentration of power reaches this level. I think that in all these years that I thought we were talking about different […]
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 […]
The Empire Has No Clothes
The Empire Has No Clothes Hans Christian Andersen told the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” as part of his Fairy Tales Told for Children collection. The tale is almost two hundred years old. Most know how a little boy was the first to announce that the emperor had no clothes. Andersen’s tale is being re-written today […]
