This past year is more evidence that just about everyone with normal lives will be better off by refraining from daily, or even weekly intake of economic and political news from all traditional sources. We have been inundated with daily doses of hypertensive headlines heralding one “crisis” after another.…
Demographics, domicile & debt. How are these factors contributing to the ongoing economic crisis in the U.S. and beyond?…
Jack Kevorkian died last Friday. I honor his passing because he fought and sacrificed himself for the right to assisted suicide. Whether he understood it or not, his crusade was to reinstate a key element in the broader, most fundamental right to self ownership. …
The public has been conditioned like dogs to believe that inflation is a necessary byproduct of prosperity in a modern economy; that if the fed did not create so much cyber cash everything would fall apart. Read here to find out why.…
The truth is the professional speculator is not a super swami stud, but a timid trend follower hiding in the shadow until a trend emerges, hops on, and then runs at the first sign of conflict. Professional speculators may on occasion exacerbate price movements already in progress, but they…
The decline in the unemployment rate to 8.9% is utter nonsense. This good news, trumpeted by the power elites, occurred only because millions of people have literally given up all hope of finding a job. …
The attempt by the righties to strip the public unions of collective bargaining is why I get the dry heaves every time a libertarian allows himself to be labeled a conservative. Milton Friedman let it slide all the time. Conservatives do not believe in limited government or free…