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Making Sense of American Craziness

24th April 2025 Going Postal 2341 Comments

The idea that England and America are two countries separated by the same language is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there are other attributes that separate us as well.  We in the US [more…]

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Some Straight Talk to the Anti-Free Traders

23rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 2206 Comments

Oh, I know. You aren’t REALLY against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field”. Those Chinese cheat by raising tariffs against our goods and subsidizing key industries that they want to [more…]

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They call him the Great Disruptor

17th April 2025 Going Postal 2038 Comments

It’s been interesting (but entirely predictable) to see the world reaction to Trump’s tariff speech. I suppose that hysteria is warranted, because what Trump has done is indeed unprecedented and likely to have seismic effects, [more…]

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David Hume’s Insight Explains America’s Economic Decline

16th April 2025 Patrick Barron 2447 Comments

Since he was a young up-and-coming property magnate in New York City, Donald Trump has been fixated on what he believes to be foreigners’ cheating on international trading terms to the detriment of the US. [more…]

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The Art of the Deal

14th April 2025 well_chuffed 2478 Comments

Creating chaos is part of the Donald’s Art of the Deal. It has been succinctly explained by Andrew Torba. Start with an extreme position to create room for compromise Use attention grabbing statements to control [more…]

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The Case Against the F-35

10th April 2025 Patrick Barron 2214 Comments

In the past few months several reputable aviation magazines, such as Combat Aircraft Journal Magazine, have stated that the F-35 is not combat capable. Its April issue had many reports related to the progress of [more…]

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Chaos

7th April 2025 well_chuffed 2280 Comments

Since the Donald was sworn in as the 47th President there has been little but chaos in his administration. Steve Bannon intimated that changes would be coming fast and haphazardly, mainly to keep the Democrats [more…]

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Prior Savings Is the Ethical Requirement for Retirement

3rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 2161 Comments

Retirement is seen almost as a right by most people in the West, especially America and Europe. Make it to your sixties and most people expect to retire from the daily grind of earning a [more…]

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Secret Message in Cantillon’s Essai

27th March 2025 Going Postal 2089 Comments

Murry Rothbard’s chapter, The Celebrated Adam Smith, in his Economic Thought before Adam Smith begins: Adam Smith … is a mystery in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.  The mystery is the enormous and unprecedented [more…]

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