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 Our Enemy, the Executive State  |
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The modern
institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans
face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the nationalMonday, January 25, 2021 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
 Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work  |
| The term “anarcho-capitalism” has, we might say, rather an arresting quality. But while the term itself may jolt the newcomer, the ideas it embodies are compelling and attractive, and represent the culmination of a long development of thought.
If I had to boil it down to a handful of insights, they would be these: (1) each human being, to use John Locke’s formulation, “has a property in his ownWednesday, December 9, 2020 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| God, Gold and Guns |
| We’ve been looking into One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter.
October 2, 2017: One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter
October 14, 2017: One Nation Under Gold #2: The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years
Now, we will follow Ledbetter’s account of the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, up to the present.
The account of the 1971 devaluation was, following the pattern of this book, long on details but short on insight. It seemed to people at the time that they “had no choice,” thatSaturday, October 24, 2020 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
 What Should Freedom Lovers Do  |
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How can one combine professional life with the advancement of liberty? Of course it is presumptuous to offer a definitive answer since all jobs and careers in the market economy are subject to the forces of the division of labor.Because a person focuses on one task doesn't mean that he or she isn't great at many tasks; it means only that the highest productive gains for everyone come from dividing tasks up among many people of a wide range of talents.Thursday, October 15, 2020 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Gotterdammerung |
| Wagner's opera Gotterdämmerung is about the twighlight of pagan gods. The most powerful of the latter-day pagan gods that has been guiding the destinies of humanity for the past two-score of years is Irredeemable Debt. Before August 14, 1971, debts were obligations, and the word "bond" was to mean literally what it said: the opposite of freedom. The privilege of issuing debt had a countervailing responsibility: that of repayment.Friday, September 18, 2020 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
| The Truth About War and the State |
| Not long ago I was thinking about the legacy of Murray N. Rothbard, the brilliant scholar and the creator of the libertarian movement, as well as a dear friend to both Ron and me. Would that movement have come into existence without Murray? I don’t think so. And whatever might have developed in its place would undoubtedly have been less pro-peace, and more willing to reach an accord with the warfare stSaturday, September 5, 2020 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
Five myths about the Gold Standard I : Ron Paul and Larry McDonald  |
| Americans are for the most part ignorant of the gold 'standard' envisioned by Ron Paul. Before the 'unenlightened ones' lend an ear to the quacks and frauds that'll twist and spin what Ron Paul proposes, best you read this 1981 congressional tract of his from 1981. A Gold Coin Exchange Standard is what he is suggesting.Tuesday, August 25, 2020 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| FIVE MYTHS ABOUT THE GOLD STANDARD (Part I) - Ron Paul Cong. Larry McDonald |
| Americans are for the most part ignorant of the gold 'standard' envisioned by Ron Paul. Before the 'unenlightened ones' lend an ear to the quacks and frauds that'll twist and spin what Ron Paul proposes, best you read this 1981 congressional tract of his from 1981. A Gold Coin Exchange Standard is what he is suggesting. Under such a system, the Federal Reserve Notes would compete for gold in our markets as a medium of exchange. FMonday, August 3, 2020 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| How the Nazis Came to Power: The People Thought They Were Free |
| History repeats because human nature remains the same...CV
recommended reading by Ron Paul...
An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer, 1955
But Then It Was Too Late
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it becamMonday, July 6, 2020 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell |
| The American Religion of Violence |
| Laurence Vance has coined the word “warvangelical” to describe so-called evangelical Christians who are obsessed with supporting all of the state’s wars and all of the death, destruction, and mayhem that they entail. They ignore the ancient just war tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, among others, and simply support all war and all military aggression – as long as the U.S. government is the aggressor.
These are the people who booed at Ron Paul when he reminded them at one of their conventions thaWednesday, July 1, 2020 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| Who said it, when and where |
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Over the years I've accumulated a long list of quotes about money and banking extracted from online articles and books I've read.Unlike most other sites that post pithy remarks from famous authors, I include hyperlinks to their sources, so that anyone who wishes can not only verifya quote but, perhaps more importantly, read the context in which it was used.Wednesday, May 20, 2020 |
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 | Ron Paul - Texas Straight Talk |
| I love Gold because it gives financial security |
| It is not Gold in and of itself that excites me, but the many benefits of sound money. Another benefit is financial security.
Can sound money give you financial security? There is something very comforting in knowing that what you earn today will retain its purchasing power in the years to come. Indeed, the same silver dime that bought a loaf of bread in the 1960s can still buy a loaf of bread with its precious metal content – which is worth about $1.00 today.Friday, May 15, 2020 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Germany's Stolen Gold Reserves - Times are changing - the debts remain (Russian) |
| Is the US Fedkeeping doublebookkeeper entries -addingGermany's plusothergovernments' goldincluded in the USclaimedreserves of 8,100+ tons? Show metheyaren't.
STERN REMINDER:It's notownershipthatcounts - -it'salwayswho has CONTROL! Bereminded ofthistruismwhenitcomes toyourownpersonalbankdeposits and "safe"deposit boxes.Saturday, March 21, 2020 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
| What Libertarianism Is, and Isn’t |
| The explosive growth in the number of converts to libertarianism since Ron Paul first ran for president is one of the most exciting developments of my life. But I’d like to issue a note of caution.
There are several ways a young libertarian can distinguish himself. He can be an effective communicator of libertarian ideas as a writer or speaker. He can employ his unique talents — as an artist, animator, interviewer, or whatever — to convey the libertarian message in new and compelling ways. He caFriday, March 20, 2020 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
| Doomsday |
| Ron Paul talks to Lew Rockwell about what could be ahead.Monday, March 9, 2020 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Ron Paul: ‘When Our Financial System Crashes…The Elites…Will Suffer The Least’ |
| When the housing bubble popped in 2007, the Federal Reserve went to work to re-inflate the bubble by printing more money – quantitative easing. But the policy has made matters much worse, as now everything is a bubble, and according to Ron Paul, when it bursts, only the elite will come out unscathed.
The Federal Reserve has once again created an artificial and unsustainable economic bubble. Central planning still doesn’t work, and the sooner we move to sound money the better. Ron Paul discusses Sunday, December 30, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Does Not Fear Interest Rate Hikes |
| – Gold no longer fears or pays attention to Fed announcements regarding interest rates
– Renewed interest in gold due to inflation fears and concern Fed won’t do enough to control it
– Higher interest rates on horizon will make debt levels unsustainable
– New Fed Chair warns “the US is not on a sustainable fiscal path” and could lead to an “unsustainable” debt load
– Higher interest rates are good for gold as seen in the 1970s and 2000s
– Gold markets aware that central banks are running out of Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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 | Andy Sutton |
| Touching Base, China, Trade, US Media, and The Roundtable |
| US-China Trade War to Begin 8/14?
The media loves the word war. Everything is a war. The US Media’s consistent constipation of the brain / diarrhea of the mouth might be called a gastrointestinal war. Surely this is jest, but people have already quickly become desensitized many very important words. I will maintain my assertion of yesteryear – words mean things.
I would contend that we have been involved in a cold-style trade war with China since before the initial posting. Now perhaps that warSaturday, March 3, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| The Right Question… |
| Last week I mentioned that my grandson Josh (Andy’s boy) was accepted at McGill University in Montreal, the University of Indiana’s business school and the University of Michigan. He is interested in pursuing a degree in business and is taking all the requisite (advanced) classes in economics.
He called me yesterday and asked me, “Which Fed Policy would be better, Quantitative Easing or Tapering and what can be done to make things better?” Geese Louise! When I was his age the only question I Wednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
| The Fed Friends A transcript of the Lew Rockwell Show episode 001 with Lew Rockwell |
| by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Listen to the podcast
ANNOUNCER: This is the Lew Rockwell Show.
ROCKWELL: Welcome to the first LRC podcast. I want to thank producer, Chris Brunner, and announcer, Harvey Gold, for helping get this enterprise on the road.
Today, I’m not going to talk about Bush’s and Cheney’s rotten wars of aggression already going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, covertly going on against Iran. And they, of course, want to start a full-fledged open war against Iran. I’m not going to talMonday, January 8, 2018 |
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