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…
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…
If you’ve ever seen a nature program on TV, undoubtedly you’ve seen how the secondary predators, like jackals, hyenas, and baboons bring down their prey differently than the larger predators, namely that one crushing death bite to the throat. Rather, they slowly wear down their prey until the whole pack is able to descend upon the poor creature…
We are experiencing the Hegelian dialectic in real time. Let us consider the recent scandal that quickly blew into something of monstrous proportions in the alternative media known as Pizzagate. For those who have been living under a rock, Pizzagate involves two Washington DC pizzerias, Comet Ping Pong Pizza and Besta Pizza. Through the Wikileaks email…
As always in an election year, the public clamors for more jobs. Understandably, being unemployed for any reason is a deplorable (did I just use that word?) position to find oneself in. Politicians promise more jobs. But does the market call for more jobs or more production?
America’s middle class is disappearing rapidly. Increased taxation coupled with higher living costs are wiping out savings and making standards of living no longer tenable. Rather than respond to this problem those affected live in a depressed political apathy, throwing their support behind polar radicals like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump whose impressive rhetoric offers…
Recently, I’ve been asked what it is I have against socialism. Readers of the Blue Collar Economist may have noticed a large amount of material focused against this most erroneous of economic ideas. For me, it almost borders on a personal matter. It is true that I had, in my youth, certain socialistic leanings. For…
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