The US Government is no stranger to scamming citizens but the latest financial hustle being proposed, a sovereign wealth fund, is a flim-flam on steroids. It needs to be put out of its misery before it makes the rest of us miserable.
Many “mainstream” economists are bothered by the popularity of economically-flawed policy proposals like tariffs and price controls. It’s their own fault.
Lowering rates is a tool to rescue the government. If you make it easy for governments to borrow, they will gladly do it and continue printing currency.
Remember when progressive governments outlawed church gatherings but sanctioned sex orgies? Yes, it really happened.
Ask most people why our economy is advanced, and they will likely will answer, “Technology.” Yet, technical knowledge is meaningless without capital development, and capital development is impossible without real savings.
In the past four years, a number of monuments honoring the Confederacy have been torn down or removed. As we have seen before, however, the activism behind this movement will not stop with just taking down Confederate symbols.
When discussing the homeless situation in the US, Star Trek does not usually come to mind. However, one episode from about three decades ago was both insightful and prophetic in presenting what would be homelessness in San Francisco.
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While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist ideologies.
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