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Guess What Is Keeping the US Economy Afloat

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / July 11, 2023 / Economics / 10 minute read

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With no commensurate increase in the demand for money, the expansion in money supply created by American money-printing leads to all existing dollars buying fewer goods than before the money-printing. Nobody sends a bill: the tax just happens, with every clank of the government printing press. Doubling the amount of money in circulation via the printing press, and then giving the printed money to the government to buy stuff with, is basically the same as the government taxing half of private-sector income and buying stuff with it.

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The Long Road Ahead

Paul Frijters / November 9, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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The reality is that people do still vote for their captors. They really do not want to admit the damage they have been party to, even if that damage is to their own children, their own businesses, and their own communities. The big takeaway is that what Charles MacKay said in 1841 really does hold: “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Recovering senses takes years, not months.

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Where Have the Adults Gone?

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / May 1, 2023 / Policy, Society / 22 minute read

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The last three years show us what happens when specialists are in charge. If you want to know whether it is a good idea to lock down a whole city, it helps if you can quickly see the many effects lockdowns will have among many different parts of the city’s population and economy. Only with a broad view of many factors do you have hope of making a reasonable judgment.

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A New Western Religion Takes Shape

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / June 27, 2022 / Economics, Law, Society / 10 minute read

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The new global institutions, politicians hope, will assist in ensuring the flock remains deeply obedient to their leaders, is preoccupied with self-loathing, and continues to be wary of any fellow man with whom they might have organised resistance.

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Government by the People: Is It Possible?

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker,

Paul Frijters / September 11, 2022 / Government, Philosophy / 8 minute read

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You can bet that this real transfer of power to the people will be strongly resisted by most elite individuals and institutions. They will loudly proclaim every single reason they can think of for why it is a crazy, impossible idea, and get “experts” from their networks to loudly profess the silliness of even proposing the notion. This vitriolic denigration is exactly the measure of how badly we need to loosen their grip on power and change the system they have entrenched for their own benefit.

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The Fear Industry and the Selling of Covid Lockdowns

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / September 4, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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During the Great Fear and on through the Illusion of Control phase of the Covid era, anyone who didn’t automatically go along with a new sacrifice for Covid was apt to be regarded as a dangerous heretic and quickly howled down by a baying public.

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Covid and the Madness of Crowds

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker,

Paul Frijters / September 6, 2021 / History, Society / 21 minute read

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Their singular obsession, emotional intensity, and size lead to crowds sometimes attaining great power and dictating directions that can change the course of history for a whole country, or even for the world. The inherent danger is that their obsession blinds them to everything else that matters in normal times.

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Is There a Cure for the Western Public Health Catastrophe?

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / October 24, 2023 / Public Health / 13 minute read

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Beyond advocating healthy eating, exercise, and robust international travel, there is the question of what role optimal public health policy has in promoting particular lifestyles. At present, the West is burdened with high and increasing levels of obesity, gaming addiction, mental health problems, and loneliness. To the health industry all this is a boon, providing a steady stream of victims to fleece.

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Can Federalising Central Governments Fix…Federalism?

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / January 31, 2024 / Economics, Government, History / 24 minute read

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The US, Australia, and the EU each started out as federalist ideas with extremely independent constituent states, and with constitutions that made the rise of a large central government illegal and impossible. Yet, in all three places, the federalist project has failed, and a giant central bureaucracy has arisen that is strangling the life out of both states and country, as we have opined previously. How did this hostile takeover happen, and how do we create a new federalism that is resistant to becoming a monster all over again?

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A Vision for a New Liberalism

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / February 28, 2024 / Government, Society / 20 minute read

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We call on you to join us. Become mentors, teachers, or sponsors of novacad.org or scienceandfreedom.org. Better yet, set up your own communities and organisations for those you care about. We need to start building the future we want for those we love, and stop indulging in the fantasy that the West will magically come to its senses if only we press the like button for the right articles often enough on social media and badmouth Bill Gates at enough dinner parties. A better future for our children is worth fighting for, and it is ours to build.

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