The “Miracle Recovery” Narrative: We’ll Just Print Our Way to Prosperity

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been constantly bombarded by news reports and “expert” analyses celebrating an incredible global economic recovery. They’re not even presented as projections or expectations anymore, but as a fact, as though the return to vibrant growth were already underway. Stock markets certainly seem to agree, going from record high to record high while […]

The Greenbacker Who Likes FDR

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Gary North – May 12, 2021 From 2011. Ellen Brown leans so far to the left that her left shoulder scrapes the pavement.That this extreme leftist needs to get a hearing within the yard roots conservative motion is simply another bit of proof that tens of thousands of members of the turf roots conservative movement […]

How Trillions in Recently Printed Cash Produced a Labor Scarcity

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

If you’re tired of binge-watching Netflix, there are likely a few restaurants in your neighborhood who would like to employ you. A job may assist ease the monotony. On the other hand, why work when one can simply be among the more than 6 million former workers now collecting “pandemic joblessness insurance coverage“? Those millions […]

Forget Retirement

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Gary North – May 13, 2021 If you are still a taxpayer, you are Atlas. I am Atlas. There will come a time when Atlas will shrug. I have actually discussed this before When will he shrug? Before I can address this, I want to discuss another factor, compound economic development COMPOUND FINANCIAL GROWTH As […]

The Noneconomic Objections to Capitalism

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

[Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from part IV of The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, socialists often argued that socialism was superior to capitalism because it would deliver a higher standard of living and more consumer goods. When it became clear socialism could not compete with capitalism in terms of material well-being, […]

Gold Confiscation

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Gary North – April 24, 2021 From 2011. I wish this were not necessary, but articles like this one keep popping up. So, from time to time, I push one of them down. Here is a recent one. The Greatest Threat to Gold Ownership If you hold precious metals in your portfolio, there is a […]

Why Is There No Connection in between Masks, Lockdowns, and Covid Suppression?

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

In the previous number of months, our respected public health specialists have had a rough go of protecting the allegedly settled science behind lockdowns and mask requireds. White House covid-19 advisor Andy Slavitt was initially on the slicing block back in mid-February, when he was decreased to parroting empty platitudes about social distancing after failing […]

History of the Conservative Movement, Part 5: The Victory of Progressivism

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Alan Payne on a Fascinating History of Contending Service Designs

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

We can gain helpful insights by winding organization models back in time to see how they emerged and progressed. When it comes to competing company models, we can examine the different results and perhaps appoint some domino effect analysis to analyze why one design variant performed much better than another. How do we do that? […]

Video: Eminent Domain vs. Personal Property

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Gary North – April 24, 2021 It is legal in some states for a city government to eliminate your home in order to offer your home to developers.Prior to the Kelo case, it was legal in more states than it is today.Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005 ), was a case […]