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South American Journey, Part Seven

8th September 2023 Going Postal 2289 Comments

More writings by uncle, John Alldridge. This time he is reporting from South America in 1960 for the Birmingham Evening Mail – Jerry F A boom city built on oil So I end as I [more…]

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The Road to Serfdom – by the example of Venezuela – Part II

30th September 2019 Going Postal 4357 Comments

“Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went [more…]

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The Road to Serfdom – by the example of Venezuela – Part I

16th September 2019 Going Postal 4373 Comments

“Venezuela is the current poster child of interventionist failure” When looking at the quality of the media coverage of Venezuela’s crisis and the interpretations of the factors that caused it, the superficiality of most analyses [more…]

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The Necessary and Inevitable Recession to Come

17th June 2019 Patrick Barron 2159 Comments

Perhaps the most destructive premise of modern, mainstream economics is that a central bank-induced monetary/credit expansion can cause an economy to grow without adverse consequences. Let’s be perfectly clear from the start…this policy has been [more…]

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Top Socialist Fails – Part One Venezuela

19th May 2018 Jonathon Davies 2102 Comments

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. More oil than the Middle East. They are not a million mile away from the USA that uses huge amounts of oil. They can easily supply [more…]

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Where to even begin?  Coming up with one single descriptor for Owen Jones is nigh on impossible. Mr Jones is one of the most charismatic figures of the modern left and he is rarely, if [more…]

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