Inception: What You Missed
Your lecture of the week this week:
Sunday Song
Sigur Ros – Glósóli
The ÜberPresident Cedes No Power
I have been reading more and more of and about J. R. R. Tolkien these days, and it is becoming clear that the man is exactly the role model I want to move toward for the rest of my life. There is little else that needs to be said about the man other than the…
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Peter Schiff explains what is wrong with the system:
This Should Happen More Often
Mike Bost, Representative from Illinois, after being handed a 200-page bill with only 15 minutes to read:
The Morality of High Taxes
Coming in 2013 is a fiscal cliff. Four tax code provisions set to expire will hike the average American’s taxes up significantly, unless something is done about it. These levels of taxes would destroy the economy, but that argument is not necessary. The truth is that high taxation is immoral: WE ALL know the moral…
DetailsBought & Paid for (in a Debased Currency)
A recent Forbes article highlighted the reason why mainstream economics is dominated by Federal Reserve supporters. In short,”A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
[What Day Is It Again?] Song
M83 – Midnight City
ToTheSource on C.S. Lewis on the State
Most of us are familiar with C. S. Lewis’s theological and philosophical writings, but you’ve made a point of drawing us to a neglected aspect of his thought, a deep-seated antipathy to “statism.” First of all, what is statism? Theroux: Statism is the view that all social and economic power in society should be…
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On Market Prices: