If the goal is progress, the superior path remains the free-market alternative: To wit, enforce property rights and prosecute fraud under existing statutes, and refrain from constructing a new federal apparatus that recreates the intermediary structures blockchain was invented to challenge.
An economy this top-heavy with paper wealth – as the poor and middle class get destroyed with persistent inflation, slow growth, and unstable labor markets pervasive with dropouts – is not sustainable. It’s not capitalism but rather corruption by the printing press.
The Money Printers Fueling Socialism’s Rise Continue Reading
Some people understand the corruption, fraud, and coordination of criminal activity that has led us here. Far fewer understand how deeply that dysfunction persists, and the degree to which it has been amplified.
Compliance is tanking, which is what one would expect after brutal mandates and ubiquitous injury and death. Meanwhile, pharma bots are dominating social media to shame dissidents, while legacy media turns news pages into nonstop shot-and-pill advertising.
Economic Calculation in the Vaccinated Commonwealth Continue Reading
Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was greater than official statistics indicate. What follows will shore up this intuition.
Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Continue Reading
We need to be asking questions about whether sending more of our collective wealth towards our healthcare system is producing good returns. We might expect that anything spent on healthcare provides good returns, but what if those investments end in losses?
While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
The Demonization of Men (and Everyone Else Too) Continue Reading
The Industrial Revolution took jobs from people who work with their hands — routine physical work. But AI is taking routine paperwork — people who forward emails, schedule meetings, and sit on diversity committees.
We are going to get a globe-shaking economic conflagration erupting from the void that was the Persian Gulf commodity fountain. That includes between 20% and 50% of all the basic commodities that drive global GDP.
There’s never been a better time to sign the resolution at CovidJustice.org. There is every intention on the part of elites to try lockdowns again under some other excuse. They can and likely will, whether for infectious disease or some other justification.
Observe the Economic Fallout Six Years Later Continue Reading
Murray Rothbard was not only a sweet and wonderful human being. He was a model intellectual with an irrepressible desire to understand and tell what is true. No scholar with such an outlook can fit comfortably in any establishment in any age.
Trump’s cancellation of the so-called “endangerment finding” with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump’s spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins.
Goodbye and Good Riddance to the Endangerment Finding Continue Reading
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