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The Original Oracle of Omaha: Howard Homan Buffett

The EntrepreneurProgressivismU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

Blog08/24/2023

Before there was Warren Buffett, known as much for his progressive politics as his acumen with money, there was his father, Howard Homan Buffett, a libertarian of the Old Right.

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The USDA’s War on Small Farms

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivismU.S. Economy

Blog08/24/2023

The Biden administration is unleashing the USDA on small farmers, attempting to regulate them out of business. This is done to protect not the public's health, but politically connected agriculture interests.

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The Killing and Destruction Must Stop: It Is Time to End the Ukraine War

EuropeWar and Foreign Policy

Blog08/23/2023

The Ukraine war brings death and destruction with no end in sight. Instead of encouraging more fighting, Western political leaders need to face reality and find a way to end this conflict.

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The Fed Is Losing Tens of Billions: How Are Individual Federal Reserve Banks Doing?

Money and Banks

The Federal Reserve System was originally conceived not as a unitary central bank, but as 12 regional reserve banks. It has evolved a long way toward being a unitary organization since then.

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The Fed: Harming the Economy for over a Century

The FedInflationUnemploymentU.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog08/22/2023

While we criticize the Fed for its monetary predations over the past few years, we really should look at the harm the Fed has caused for more than a century. Its record is abysmal.

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The Great Phony Disinflation Enters Its Finale

The FedInflationMonetary PolicyPolitics

Blog08/21/2023

Supposedly, the "big news" is the decline of inflation. However, the monetary and political forces driving the latest bout of inflation have not gone away.

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The Coming Collapse of the Global Ponzi Scheme

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyThe FedU.S. Economy

Blog08/21/2023

In the global Ponzi scheme, thin air and deceit substitute for sound money. As hedge-fund manager Mitch Feierstein ...

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The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People Surges

U.S. History

Blog08/18/2023

The regime has increasingly been consumed with paranoia over threats to itself—propagandistically termed "threats to democracy"—while real crime against private citizens is clearly not a priority at all. 

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