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A View (Actually) From The Greenhouse….Everything Is Not As It Seems…

25th December 2024 Colin Cross 1742 Comments

Like me, you’d have been saddened but unsurprised by the latest in a long line of cars, as if driven by some kind of divine hand, crashing into innocent people going about their ordinary, if [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Four

6th February 2023 Going Postal 5227 Comments

One of Say’s Laws holds that “we produce to consume”. This is certainly the underlying theme of the Industrial Revolution with its accompanying exponential growth in production of technology, communication, and energy utilization. While private [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Three

30th January 2023 Going Postal 1864 Comments

Banking came up with its own methods of inflating the supply of legal tender-fiat money, fractional reserve lending. A bank comes to know (a version of the dispersal of knowledge of the market) how much [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Two

23rd January 2023 Going Postal 3131 Comments

Prior to written documents being exchanged as representations of mutually agreed perceived value, the concept of money arose amongst multiple trading groups. This may have taken place prior to the credit/debit system as a substitute [more…]

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Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part One

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Having been born into and grown up within the never-ending promise of prosperity guaranteed by Keynes’s gospel that saved us all from the purgatory of the Depression, I like others only began to see a [more…]

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