Currency & The Biggest Scam Ever
Our fiat system: learn it, know it, explain it to others…
Filed under “something everyone should know.”
Debt Limit, Revisited
I have posted this video before, but it is worth another view:
Have Kids
This is woefully insufficient to address the topic, but Fr. Barron dismantles the idea that couples intentionally remaining childless is anything more than selfishness:
The Yellen Shuffle
It is official: Janet Yellen will be confirmed as Federal Reserve Chairman. This is a… BAD… IDEA… For the naïve mind there is something miraculous in the issuance of fiat money. A magic word spoken by the government creates out of nothing a thing which can be exchanged against any merchandise a man would like…
DetailsWenzel on the Minimum Wage
Your lecture of the week this week is Robert Wenzel pretending he is in a lecture hall, and explaining why 2 + 2 can never equal 5, no matter how many academic studies try to prove otherwise. In other words, Wenzel specifies why deductive reasoning is more important in economics than studies are, and what…
DetailsInequality & Government
ZH recently laid out a multi-faceted case detailing how inequality is caused by government intervention. I believe the case is pretty strong there (much stronger than the bare assertion that the “free market – WHERE?! – is doing this), but it misses one of the basic principles of inequality that most people do know about…
DetailsGreenwald Versus Power; The NSA Chronicles
Talking head has trouble realizing the slant of her questions, it seems. The media surely is one of the core columns of government, but perhaps they do not even realize it. Greenwald is on fire here. He is pissed-off, and rightly so. Not only have many contended that he is not a “true journalist,” the…
DetailsWhat Does America Want?
The Onion reports: In a new report released Wednesday by the Pew Research center, Americans indicated that when it comes to what they expect from their country, all they really want is to be safe, happy, rich, comfortable, and entertained at absolutely all times. In addition, the U.S. populace reportedly wondered whether it was too…
DetailsThe Sin of Breathing
Your lecture this week is more of a discussion, about the nonsense that has become commonplace in leftist environmentalism. Steven Molyneux: