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It’s Not the End of the World

The whole point of shining a light into the gloom is to avoid having it end in doom.

Why Modern Monetary Theory Will Destroy Money…

MMT centers around the notion that the economy in general, and money should be the creatures of the State.

The World is Your Oyster

How internationalizing your life today can lead to greater freedom and happiness tomorrow.

The Foxes Are in Charge of The Swamp

No situation is so hopeless… so absurd… or so disastrous that the feds can’t make it worse. No policy is too stupid… too counterproductive… or too corrupt that it can’t become the law of the land.

Is Argentina in America’s Future?

Never before has so much fake money created so much fake prosperity and faked out so many people.

Professional Wrestling and the Media

Conservatives blindly hate liberals; liberals blindly hate conservatives. And, of course, this is the whole point.

Smart Money Divorces Dumb

The U.S. government is the largest player in the financial markets.

A Whimper and a Bang

In a Whimper, prices go down, money disappears, and the economy goes into depression. After that, our guess is that the Whimper will be followed by a Bang.

The Trouble With a $5 Coke

Fight for $15! This was the rallying cry of what eventually became the largest fast-food strike in US history. It all started in late 2012, when over 100 New York City fast-food workers walked off their jobs, demanding higher wages. Many made minimum wage. They were struggling to make ends meet as rent, utilities, medical […]

The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us

A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up […]

The Coming of the Roman Tax Collectors

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has been written about many times over the last two millennia, most notably in Edward Gibbon’s six-volume set of books of the same name. However, one significant aspect to the decline began in the fourth century that has received little attention from those who have written on […]