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I remember being skeptical when I saw a link to their first video, “Fear the Boom and Bust” an economic rap battle between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, but after bopping through the video it was immediately clear [...]
I don’t fully understand this picture, either, and I’m the one who cobbled it together.
As someone with a libertarian philosophy of government, I’m often found raining on other people’s publicly-funded parades: sports arenas, the arts, environmental programs, saving that old lady down the street from herself and all those cats, [...]
Before we are once more drawn into the warm wet embrace of faith in the economy, I wanted to make note of my recently evolved commonsense skepticism of economic systems.
At some point in my life, I unfortunately lost my endless curiosity in subjects that lay just outside the confines of my current knowledge. One such subject that has remained an [...]
Like some good-old, dry Monty Python sketch. This from an Australian satire show called Newstopia, the video originally seen at Campaign for Liberty. With a spoonful of sugar to taste, better said than I can say though I’ll say it anyway…
Central banking (U.S. Federal Reserve) and fiat currency are both a bit of corrupted magic done by men who may or may not know better.
It’s funny because it’s true? Of course, it’s also sad because it’s true.
Further along these lines of understanding the farces of the currently constructed economy, I find the following sources thought-provoking. However, like anything, they may tomorrow prove themselves something other. So take them, as always, into your own skeptical hands.
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