5 July 2023 The outside world is looking at Yellow Freight and can’t understand how two sides of a negotiation could be so angry with each other that there are some who want to see their own jobs cut and watch the company go bankrupt. It’s been a 15 year road of concessions, give-backs, broken…
April, 2023 Welcome to the dawning of The New World Order, or as the World Economic Forum would put it, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”. For those who attempt to keep up with current events, life has been happening hard and fast. Before one story of bad news leaves the news cycle , two or three…
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. James Warburg Look around yourself. What do you observe? Is it a world in chaos? Maybe a global pandemic trying to destroy human existence? Election fraud? Massive debt accumulation? Government tyranny? Endless wars? Famine? Injustice and the abuse of truth?…
So much has happened since my last article, to say the least. There are a few reasons why I haven’t written anything, mostly due to time constraints. I work full-time and don’t have the time available to devote the required research time to write more articles. I’ve just been charged another $99 by WordPress to…
Recently, Tom Woods discussed an AlterNet article entitled, “11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See If They’re Hypocrites”. The discussion revolved around ways to trick libertarians into “gotcha” moments by asking whether or not certain given items were examples of spontaneous order. One example of spontaneous order was a democracy. Tom, in his usual form,…
Many libertarians are already convinced that the private market can do anything the government can do, only more efficiently. There’s the historical example about Lysander Spooner outperforming the US Postal Service in the 18th century. Wherein he was so efficient at delivering the mails at a cheaper rate and to his customers’ front door, that…
Of all of the articles I have written, this one has pained me the most to write. In it, I will have to site and at times defend John Maynard Keynes, not his “General Theory”, but another paper he wrote in 1930 titled, “Economic Prospect of our Grandchildren“. If you haven’t read it, please read…
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has taught all free-marketeers something valuable; the English language must remain laissez-faire. His stance against Canada’s mainstream academia, more precisely, their insistence that the student body and faculty address each other using new “non-binary pronouns” has raised Jordan Peterson to a level of notoriety. But, does Dr. Peterson even know he’s…
If you’re a frequent user of social media platforms you’ve probably noticed something akin to being watched or even monitored. Suddenly, an advertisement appears for a product you might have reviewed on Amazon or eBay. A series of videos appears to the right of your YouTube page relating to something you’ve watched days earlier. Facebook…
Source: Rights being eroded Recently I had read a blog from Libertarian57, in this article, he asked the reader to share their thoughts on how our rights are being eroded. Here was my response, A good post and a good question. I had lived and worked in Berlin Germany, back when it was still West…
As Hurricane Harvey, now tropical storm Harvey, makes its way across the southern US, estimates have already come in as to the cost of the storm. According to AccuWeather, Harvey is expected to cost upwards of $190 billion in damages, one percent of the national GDP. This makes Harvey the costliest storm ever to hit the United…
Psychologists and psychiatrists, over the recent years, have uncovered a phenomenon they call, “pathological altruism”. They describe how someone may have such an insatiable desire to help someone else, that they may actually be doing the recipient of that help more harm than good, without realizing it. Free marketeers have witnessed and described this very same behavior…
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