Since the crash in the price of gold, most in the mainstream financial world have warned that gold should be sold, that the bull market in gold has ended. Their view is that the Keynesian policies of fiscal stimulus by Congress and monetary stimulus by the Fed are working to get the economy to recover. […]
Murray Rothbard: Taxation is simply robbery
Murray Rothbard, the preeminent libertarian philosopher and economist, had a gift for cutting through to the truth on political and economic matters. And it’s important to understand the true nature of taxation on this Tax Day. Here’s Rothbard on the issue of taxation: “The first great lesson to learn about taxation is that taxation is […]
Economics 101: Does mechanisation and technology destroy jobs?
LearnLiberty.org has new video out which you can view below called Does Government Create Jobs. Some people believe that the government can create jobs and others don’t. You’ll find out the true answer to that question in the video. But something you may not have considered is whether job creation is the best thing for […]
A primer on the economic collapse: Economic Solutions
I first read the booklet Economic Solutions: How You and America Are Being Bankrupted by Peter Kershaw shortly after the 2008 financial crisis. At the time I had very little understanding of economics or even politics. It was around the same time that I first heard of Ron Paul, as he was running for the […]
Peter Schiff says David Stockman is correct, government intervention in economy caused collapse
In Peter Schiff’s latest video blog he gives praise and defends David Stockman for his new book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. Stockman is Ronald Reagan’s former Budget Director and left the Reagan administration in protest over Reagan’s failure to achieve his full mandate of lower taxes and spending. While Schiff […]