Other Schools of Thought

A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down!

Did you even know it’s International Mother Earth Day today, citizen?

Debasement in the service of the state is not a fairytale. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is real life.

The balanced budget passed away definitely in 1911, not to return again until a  revolution had swept from the people of Italy their freedom.

A DUI is one of the infractions that can cause a de facto iron curtain to fall across the Canadian-US border, separating friends and family; other infractions include possession of marijuana or even a medical-marijuana card, shoplifting, and an arrest for attending a rally.

Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it's merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead.

Japan’s economy has not been stagnant; it has in fact been growing in real terms.

A defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Maltsev knows that socialism is not better than communism.Intellectuals love socialism because they imagine themselves holding power. Communism, a utopia created by Marx, was intended to be classless with no money.

From Part III: Officer, Gentleman, Scholar.

Narrated by Paul Strikwerda.

With unlimited quantities of fiat money, the day seems to have arrived when anything is possible. But this is an illusion.