You Won’t Learn Much about Fascism in this Book on “Fascism”
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason Stanley
Random House, 2018
xix + 218 pages
At the Fed, It’s “A Tale of Two Diversities”
We often hear of this word “diversity.” In 2021, it seems this word is more important than ever when electing cabinet positions, bureaucratic appointments, or other facets of organizational structures throughout the country. Merriam-Webster defines diversity as:
the condition of having or being composed of differing elements : VARIETY
Now You Can Join the Fed’s Community Advisory Council
There could be a real opportunity to get on “the inside” of the Federal Reserve. Last Monday it was announced:
Federal Reserve Board accepting applications for its Community Advisory Council
Known as the CAC, the Advisory Council:
Milton Friedman’s Methodological Mistake
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Elections in the Bicameral Congress
[Chapter 14 of Rothbard’s newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.]
The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America
The Plan to Save the the Postal Service by Making It Even Worse
Scott Horton on Osama Bin Laden’s Strategy to Take Down the US
How a Voluntary Society Would Handle Blockades and Immigration
12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach in Times of Crisis
Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. During the first “hundred days” of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in the spring of 1933, for example, the government abandoned the gold standard, enacted a system of wide-ranging controls, taxes, and subsidies in agriculture, and set in motion a plan to cartelize the nation’s manufacturing industries. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was enacted in a rush even though no member of Congress had read it in its entirety.
