The biggest winner of the 2016 election is the anarchist. Despite what you think of Trump, there can be no doubt: globalism is dead. The anarchist’s centuries long battle against the centralization of power has finally turned in his favor. The power elite may never recover from this defeat. However crude his presidency may turn out to […]
Tag Archives: Economic Theory
Anarchy in the USA
Wall Street Journal to America: It’s Your Fault The Economy Sucks
In today’s online version of the paper, WSJ writer Jon Hilsenrath blames you for the poor “recovery.” Here’s a brief excerpt of the story headlined “A Letter to Stingy American Consumers,” edited only for brevity: Dear American Consumer, This is The Wall Street Journal. We’re writing to ask if something is bothering you. The sun shined […]
The Long Night of American Retail
A nurse must portray a sincere sense of caring, but more than that, a calm, unemotional competence. They want to create the impression that everything is under control, even when death is certain. The job of a palliative care worker is to create the illusion of health for those who are dying, to make the symptoms of […]
Interview with Deck Hazen of Deep Green Productions
Here’s my new interview with Deck Hazen of Deep Green Productions. We discuss Lewis Mumford’s “Megamachine” and how it and other bureaucracies within society deprives us of our moral autonomy.
Exponential Growth and the Inevitable Collapse of Medicare Explained
I’m continually surprised that many people do not understand what I mean when I say that Medicare spending at the federal level is growing at an exponential rate. I recently discussed this issue through Twitter with Jeffery Sachs, a Harvard Ph.D. and long time advisor to the United Nations, and even he didn’t see that […]
A Return to Capitalism is Impossible, Even if it Were Desirable
Definitions are important. Without correctly defining what the problems are, we can’t offer a workable solution. This is so obvious and yet despite enormous effort, there is no consensus on what kind of economic system we have right now. Do we have a capitalist system, the bane of the left for as long as there […]