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A Big Theory of the Boom and Bust

Posted November 30, 2022

Someday historians will look back at our times as a great turning point. We’ve been through calamity, and it worsens by the day. Will we enter into a new Dark Age? Or find the light and crawl our way toward it before it’s too late?

Why You Can Trust Barbers, Not Professors or Journalists

Posted November 29, 2022

They sat by and said nothing or even cheered as governments utterly wrecked rights and liberties that humanity has fought for over 800 years.

A Decade Lost

Posted November 28, 2022

What a world: loan defaults amid inflation and falling financials! No one is prepared for what this reality could mean for American life.

Does FTX’s Collapse Kill Crypto?

Posted November 23, 2022

There is some reason that Sam-Bankman-Fried is already off the front pages. His only further use might be to join the regulators in the effort to create a CBDC.

Thrifting Your Way to Financial Security

Posted November 22, 2022

Time prices show we have so much money compared to our needs that just a bit of thrift could make most of us financially secure.

How Inflation Changes Culture

Posted November 21, 2022

Here we are now with a preventable inflation pandemic and the realization that we have to learn to live with inflation. Soon we’ll realize that we have to live with recession at the same time.

The Cleansing Fire Is Here

Posted November 18, 2022

It’s all coming together: the racket of fiat money, terrible Fed policy, woke ideology, COVID controls, media corruption, and the bubble of big tech.

The Crack-Up Boom

Posted November 17, 2022

Right now, there is still vast room for inflation. The Fed is very much behind the curve at this point.

Is FTX the Lehman of Our Time?

Posted November 16, 2022

We could look back at the spectacular crash of FTX as the beginning of a new era.

One Nation, Divisible

Posted November 15, 2022

It was not supposed to be this way. But the centralization and betrayal of the founding principles made it so.

A Checklist for Online Privacy, Security, and Sanity

Posted November 14, 2022

A moderate guide to small things you can do to protect yourself to a great degree.

Target: Elon Musk

Posted November 11, 2022

Even if Twitter goes belly up, the case study is a lesson in the failure of woke ideology and censorship.

Never-Ending Inflation

Posted November 10, 2022

One gets the feeling that DC just thinks we will all eventually get used to it, same as we came around to various restrictions on liberties during the pandemic

There Is Some Good News

Posted November 09, 2022

Media will someday get cleaned up but not yet. Wall Street, meanwhile, is just hanging on in hopes that the days of utter doom can be forestalled for as long as possible.

How Substack Saved the World

Posted November 08, 2022

The ideological and institutional disruption of the last 21 months will likely be transformative.

Popping the Great Bubble Myth

Posted November 07, 2022

The bull market was not a Fed bubble but a powerful response to a Trump change in market structure.

Jerome Powell Is Mad as Hell

Posted November 04, 2022

We should count ourselves lucky if we somehow dodge the bullet of a full-scale financial crisis.

They Want Us to Eat Bugs

Posted November 03, 2022

Of course, the elites want to blame climate change and war but the real culprit traces to lockdowns and the supply chains that were shattered as a result of government actions.

Your Election Bets Are Illegal!

Posted November 02, 2022

There is a war on for your mind and for the future of this country.

A World Awash in Paper Money

Posted November 01, 2022

Is this the end of the government's money monopoly? Very likely so, but the unfolding of this reality will be clocked in years or decades.