by Runaway Slave | Mar 14, 2009 | Economics, Essays & Articles, Inflation, Libertarian Curmudgeon
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."— Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744 -1812) Yesterday I listened to Ben Bernanke, current man behind the curtain at the Federal Reserve, suggest with a straight face that the key...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 27, 2009 | Essays & Articles, Freedom, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Rights
You don’t hear much about States Rights these days. The death of some 650,000 Americans in Mr. Lincoln’s war in the early 1860s firmly settled the issue. After wrecking the economy and burning a few cities, the Yankees rode Dixie like a rented mule for many...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 10, 2009 | Essays & Articles, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon
The last thing I expected of the new Messiah was change. President Obama is an Illinois politician. The traditions of pork and payoff, logrolling and back-scratching run deep in the Land of Lincoln. It’s not the cream that rises to the top of the political...
by Runaway Slave | Jan 4, 2009 | Current Affairs, Deflation, Essays & Articles, Inflation, Libertarian Curmudgeon
The Fed's efforts to keep the money game going have reached a level that has leaped past astronomical to the utterly incomprehensible. Bailout costs are now estimated near $8 trillion. That's roughly $80,000 for every American household, every penny...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 17, 2008 | Economics, Essays & Articles, Libertarian Curmudgeon
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total...
by Runaway Slave | Nov 5, 2008 | Costa Rica, Essays & Articles, Human Interest, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Travel
WARNING: PG13 RATED COLUMN, MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN OR PRUDISH BUSYBODIES. The school is a single room concrete block building up in the hills behind Santa Ana in Costa Rica. It’s poorly lit and cheaply furnished in the Costa Rican style. I spend four...
by Runaway Slave | Oct 22, 2008 | Essays & Articles, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Republicrats, Voting
The only reason I can think of to vote for John McCain is Barack Obama. And the only reason I can think of to vote for Barack Obama is John McCain. On the horns of such a dilemma, the choice between a fascist or a communist megalomaniac, my write-in vote for Ron Paul...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 14, 2008 | Essays & Articles, Inflation, Libertarian Curmudgeon
“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process...
