—“Under the machinations of Keynesian economists, Americans have been turned into a nation of share croppers living with the illusion that they are getting ahead with economic “freedom” just around the corner; as they fall deeper and deeper into debt with each planting and harvest no matter how bountiful.”— James Santagata
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 04:39:00 UTC
—“The status quo is that we have free immoral speech and unfree moral speech.”— Eric Orwoll
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 03:34:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQIxebP8x4COMPARE KINSELLA’S ARGUMENT WITH DOOLITTLE’S
ON THE TOM WOODS SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQIxebP8x4
Many admissions of incompleteness, but failure to complete it.
ON PROPERTARIANISM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imc_kETTSlQ
This is what completeness looks like.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-10 01:52:00 UTC
http://www.dickmorris.com/is-bill-clinton-a-sociopath/IS BILL CLINTON A SOCIOPATH?
Um. I thought we all just assumed it. Too obvious to be anything else.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 13:30:00 UTC
—“The Stoic would not give much consideration to simple pleasures–enjoy them when they present themselves but don’t actively pursue them. The ideal is to be completely indifferent to externals (things outside our control), to not have any preferences concerning those things. Amidst all externals, one should try to keep one’s attention occupied with the things that are under one’s control.”—
–vs–
—“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”—
–vs–
—“Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make assumptions. Always do your best”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-09 09:07:00 UTC
—“By and large, it appears that there’s just a very high cost of temporal flexibility in certain occupations.”—Claudia Goldin, Harvard
the marginal difference in gender pay
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 22:43:00 UTC
—“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose.”— JM Keyens
Somehow, the “extra-judicial theft of purchasing power and wealth via inflation” (the operative Keynesian mechanism for curing a “lack of aggregate demand”) disappeared from Keynes’ narratives by the 1930s. – Bob Roddis
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-08 05:29:00 UTC
http://www.businessinsider.com/5-maps-that-explain-chinas-strategy-2016-1GEORGE FRIEDMAN ON CHINA – SHORT MUST-READ
(I follow George pretty closely and have for years. Albeit I have opposite interests in the future of the USA)
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 12:17:00 UTC
—“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”—
—““Three Percenter” : Three percenters take their name from the percentage of colonists that are said to have taken up arms against the crown in the American Revolution.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-07 10:33:00 UTC
“[I]f we possess a reserve currency, and maintain the military means of defending it and our trade routes, then we can capture the premium on trafficking contracts, exchanges, and their negotiations currently captured by the British/American financial and trade route system – and by doing so may cause a drastic reduction in the USA’s ability to finance it’s system, provide competition to that trade system, provide one that is not as meritocratic but more suitable to our needs, and cause a significant drop in the american standard of living such that we restore our ancestral position as first-nation in the world.”
“Agree with what you wrote Curt, but while the meritocratic system worked for the US initially, the US just doesn’t make them like it used to. Therefore, the US is now viewed as a country no longer interested in propagating the best products/standards/ideas throughout the world, but in only maintaining its 80-year financial/military/industrial advantage. In short, the US is in danger, if it hasn’t already, of becoming just another friggin’ country. It’s a shame, but the Chinese are incentivised to overturn the existing system and to create a new one. As American living standards drop, so does its military capabilities, and I suspect that’s what China is really after.” — Sean Ring
Shared vision.