A short blurb in today's (10/27/09) Wall Street Journal stated that home prices rose in most major American cities in August. This is cited as evidence of a recovering economy. But what does this mean and is it something we really want? Perhaps you've noticed that prices at the pump are going...
We tend to forget that government, politics, and economics are not the same thing. The word politics and the phrase political party don’t even occur in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Nor is the word economy even implied in either of these documents. In fact, George Washington, the...
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Filed under: capitalism, government, politics, greed, selfishness, nepotism, free market, materialism, hedonism, economics
Newsflash: Government monopoly fails. Again. As usual. On September 6 I ordered an item of apparel (a Ron Paul t-shirt) online. On the ninth it was shipped via UPS from Ohio to a warehouse in New York City, arriving on the twealth. It has not moved since. Need we really speculate about why? USPS is not...
Everything I see on Lew Rockwell's site recently reinforces a notion I have been developing. The United States is a police state already and we are moving beyond it to even greater levels of oppression. This new form I like to call a prison state. The prison state is a state where all the citizens'...