Budget Deficit Hits Monthly Record Due to Biden’s Policies
Forget Oil. Now They Are Coming for the Cows
The Economic Super Bowl: 1920–21 versus 1930–31
The Tea Party, Fifteen Years Later
4 Ways to Make Congress Great Again
The Chimera of a Postpandemic Postwar Return to Monetary Normal
The monetary regime in power now—the so-called 2 percent inflation standard—is promising us a “return to normal” after the great pandemic and war inflation of 2021–22. At this time of powerful propaganda—the dismal accompaniment of natural disaster and war—we should be on our guard against such messaging.
The Great Depression’s Patsy
[This article originally appeared in the January 4 edition of Lewrockwell.com.]
The culprit responsible for the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression can be easily identified—the government.
Infective Maltruism: Is Charity Still Charity When It Is Performed for Uncharitable Reasons?
Looking beyond the “aw, neat, what a great person” façade of effective altruism, one clearly finds a level of narcissistic cynicism and a drive to the permanent power that financial immortality affords that is only matched by the amount of funds being dispersed.
The gifts offered by today’s billionaires—the Silicon Valley crowd, et al.—sound great (-ish—very -ish), but to discount the obvious underlying reason is to fail to grasp the insidious nature of their beneficence.
