Wednesday For all the glaring faults and failures of paper money, it is the more subtle effects that are the most damaging. The emphatic truth is that paper money only exists because of the desire of politicians to inflate the money supply in order to buy votes and to wage wars. There are no other reasons. The vote-buying passes under the innocuous title … [Read more...]
Dingbat Dan
Saturday Australia’s Liberal government is going to blame Dingbat Dan for the economic crash that is upon us. Dan Andrews, the Victorian Premier, is widely perceived as a completely out-of-his-depth idiot who has stuffed up his responsibilities to a magnificent degree. It will stick. Dan’s daily, self-obsessed, media ramblings have made him the poster child … [Read more...]
A Free Man
Monday I am a free man, beholden to no tribe, group, country, state, territory or government save that which I choose of my own volition. I am beholden to no code, ideology, dogma, morality, logic, reason or law that is enforced by others, no matter who they are or what their claimed standing. I am not the property, chattel or subject of any external authority. I am … [Read more...]
Gold and Civilizations
This article first appeared in The Gold Standard – Issue #49 Articles on the unadulterated Gold standard tend toward the technical, as in how it would work and why that would better serve the purpose of stability and widespread prosperity. Though these are vital to the broadening of general understanding, there is more to the story than that, far more. One of these ‘far … [Read more...]