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Gold Will Destroy Keynesian Fallacies

24th August 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Great forces are in place to change the world in which we have lived since the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971. These forces cannot be stopped. The leaders of Western democracies are [more…]

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3 Grains of Death The New Opium Wars

8th August 2023 Going Postal 0

We are all aware daily of our ongoing “conflict” with our new chief “adversary” in the world, the Chinese Communist Party. Warnings about the need to increase defense spending to prepare for possible war with [more…]

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Dollar Hegemony Ending Due to Geopolitical Change

7th August 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Since the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944 the dollar has been the world’s preferred reserve currency; i.e., the major trading nations of the world were willing to hold dollars in vast amounts to satisfy their [more…]

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The real failure of “trickle down economics”

2nd August 2023 Going Postal 0

If this kind of theoretical reasoning seems too abstract, let us think about it more practically: Any public servant, any member of government, and even the leader of a nation, has very different motivations than [more…]

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South American Journey, Part One

28th July 2023 Going Postal 0

More writings by uncle, John Alldridge. This time he is reporting from South America in 1960 for the Birmingham Evening Mail – Jerry F I am writing this at a window seven floors up above [more…]

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The real failure of “trickle down economics”

26th July 2023 Going Postal 0

For decades already, one of the most popular and commonly employed attacks of Keynesians and other left-leaning economists was the one against the idea of “trickle down economics”. They ridiculed the notion that a rising [more…]

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The demise of the dollar: What comes after that?

18th July 2023 Going Postal 0

A good start Whatever one might think about which currency is better suited to be used in trade or as a benchmark or as a central bank reserve, the fact remains that the USD’s days [more…]

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The demise of the dollar: What comes after that?

11th July 2023 Going Postal 0

Endless ink has been spilled by economists and financial analysts in their efforts to predict the impact of de-dollarization. As might be expected, most of those who embrace a US-centric view of the world and [more…]

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Pennsylvania Legislators Want Higher Unemployment, Government Dependency, and Crime

26th June 2023 Patrick Barron 0

Last Tuesday, June 20th the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill to raise the Commonwealth’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2026. Although the bill is unlikely to pass the Senate, it seems [more…]

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