That adroit member of the British Parliament Enoch Powell once said that “the supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.” This duty, incumbent upon politicians endowed with wisdom, is made difficult because “by the very order of things...
Monetary
The Money-Printing Gods Have Failed
by David Stockman | Mar 18, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
Hooray! Finally even the robo-machines and day traders are puking, not BTFDing. Today’s 3,000 Dow Point Dump says even they have had enough of the craven dolts who occupy the Eccles Building. You do not need a PhD in economics—or even a night school survey course—to...
Could the Coronavirus Be Fatal for the EU?
by Alasdair Macleod | Mar 16, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Since the EU’s debt crisis over Greece in 2009 and the subsequent problems with Italy, Spain, and Portugal, eurozone banks have dedicated their balance sheets to financing government deficits. At a cost to the commercial banks’ own cash flows, negative deposit...
The Fed Panicked, and Its Rate Cut Is Making the Economy Worse
by Daniel Lacalle | Mar 9, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve's monumental mistake of cutting rates this past week can only be understood in the context of the rising God complex among central planners: an overwhelming combination of ignorance and arrogance. Less than a week ago, several members of the...
Hey, Jay, Enough Of Your Stinkin’ Easy Money!
by David Stockman | Mar 6, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
It doesn’t get any more pathetic than this. The Fed cuts the absurdly low money market rate by another 50 basis points at 10AM and before noon the Donald is banging the podium for more. So if you ever needed a final warning to get out of the casino, today’s...
End the Fed
by Jacob Hornberger | Mar 5, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
In response to the potential economic downturn in the economy arising from the spread of the Coronavirus, the Federal Reserve dropped the federal funds rate by half a point — to a range of 1% to 1.25%. Ironically, after the Fed’s announcement, the stock market dropped...
The Fed Slashes Rates as Powell Declares Economy ‘Strong’
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 3, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve moved to an enact an emergency interest rate cut after officials saw the coronavirus having a material impact on the economic outlook, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday.Powell held a news conference following the central bank’s decision to cut...
Physics and the Economic Calculation Problem
by Logan Chipkin | Feb 27, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Throughout the nineteenth century, economic socialism was given its intellectual foundations by the Utopian Socialists such as Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, and by the ‘Scientific’ Socialists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Austrian economics was only founded in...
Blog
The Dems Are What They Claim to Hate
As I said in 2016 (or was it 2015?), I despise Trump and I despise most of the people who despise Trump. I will never forgive the Democrats for making it necessary for me to defend him against their lies.
Fat Amy Follies: Part XXIV
The grift that keeps on giving and the poor performance across the board of the aircraft and the sticker shock of the high price for that mediocrity. I am going to say out loud: stealth is over-rated, the ea of manned combat aircraft is coming to a close and this...
The Girl in the Mall
She could be anywhere from sixteen to her early twenties, a strewn mess of hair rests tangled above and over her face. A regular at the Seaford Shopping Centre, she watches families walk by, smiling at children and when no one is nearby she talks to herself. In the...
Halloween Election
Halloween is upon us again and it happens to be before the next Most important election in history. The sacred ritual of the democracy ghouls, when the imperial citizens of the United States vote for their executive, though other candidates exist it is relegated to...
Interview: The Fed, the Medical Cartel, and US Complicity in Genocide
Keith Knight and I discuss how the US government robs us, serves Big Pharma, and enables Israel’s crimes against humanity.
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