About eight years ago I started studying economics in a significant way. This is a topic that I had missed in my formal schooling. But the 2008 crisis got my attention in a big way as I lived through a major hit to my retirement savings (my 401K - which [...]
Hi Everyone, This post was inspired by recent events on college campuses where free speech is being violently and sadly violated. This blog links to my full article that challenges the idea inequality is something bad to be stamped out. I shared the article with a good friend who is a leader in [...]
In the winter of 1980, a gentleman from Tampico, Illinois sat down and recorded 44 seconds worth of video footage. It was a profound insight into what is the real cause of inflation and monetary instability. Only 9 years earlier our nation had made a decisive and tragic move to unsound money. [...]
The Stampeding Elephant in the Room: Unsound Money and Inflation Did you notice how little time was spent in the presidential debates talking about our horrible debt and rising consumer prices? In just the last year we have added another $1.6 trillion to the national credit card. This [...]
Read About the Liberty Tenets Hi Everyone, In a recent post I talked about the factors and thinking that led me to change my political views from that of a life long Republican to a Libertarian and how I became convinced that the Libertarian philosophy is a [...]
It is absolutely amazing to me that the media and government keep talking about how well the economy is doing. But the latest jobs data this past Friday seemed to give even the cheerleaders a reason to drop their pompoms and take a deep breath. Adding only 38,000 [...]
In our day many people denigrate capitalism without realizing that it is the free voluntary spontaneous market that is wondrously responsible for every object they own and use! As proof - Just consider the "simple" pencil. I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to [...]
