I’ll close this series of posts out, by going back to our beginning, noting that America’s exceptional ‘system’ was originally no system at all – at least not as economic policy makers think of such matters today. In America’s founding, their primary c…
If you mistake Regress for Progress, how long can you hope to escape the consequences of having done so? I was told yesterday, and I hear it often, that things can’t be as bad as I say, because they could be so much worse than they are… which sounds …
If you want to put America first, you’ve first got to figure out what in the hell it is that you think America is, and what it resulted from, and what it requires in order to continue to exist. If you don’t want to bother with doing that, then you are …
In the last two posts (here and then here), we’ve gone over how the apparent differences of Left, Right, Libertarian, Populists, who are economically severed from any principled contact with reality, producing only an indistinguishable growth of g…
The previous post went into how the unifying nature of the Administrative State’s partisan divides, takes in the bitterly divided positions of the Left, Right, Libertarian, Populists, and their desire to ‘do something!’ for or against ‘Capitalism’, and…
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: An Economy is not the result of Economic Thinking, and Economic Thinking is not the first, but the last stage in a long train of philosophic thinking (about what is, how you know it, what you should do about i…
It’s a dangerous thing that Economics is being taken as a substitute for Philosophy today, in part because it hides from popular awareness things that should not be forgotten, substituting things that seem shiny and pleasing on the surface, absent min…
It’s a dangerous thing that Economics is being taken as a substitute for Philosophy today, in part because it hides from popular awareness things that should not be forgotten, substituting things that seem shiny and pleasing on the surface, absent min…
Folks sometimes wonder why I’m often shaking my head at the wrong people… meaning the ‘right’ people of the ‘Right’. The short answer is, because they’re often wrong… but what is left out of a short answer, simply will not do. Especially in those k…
Regardless of its ideology, that new leadership will assert public authority and demand private sacrifice. Where leaders had once been inclined to alleviate societal pressures, they will now aggravate them to command the nation’s attention. —William Strauss and Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with […]