Category Archives: Debt Slavery
WHY NOT EMBRACE WORTHLESS CURRENCY?
Extremely interesting post from Sprott Money linked at Zero Hedge (Debt-Free Money: NOT A Solution, Zero Hedge, Feb. 10, 2015), in which the lawsuit of COMER v. Bank of Canada is evaluated. I will confess that until reading the article, … Continue reading
WHY WE ARE WAGE SLAVES: THE CIRCULAR LOGIC EXPLAINED
Extremely eye-opening discussion with economist L. Randall Wray about, among other things, how money is ultimately valuable only as payment for taxes, which is how labor is compelled and the government controls the populace. If you want to check it … Continue reading
LIBERTY ROAD COMIX: NEW FEATURE
A new, periodic feature here at LRM—a cartoon or comic. In the past I have done some cartooning under the titles “Eggs Is Tense” and “Free Country.” I miss doing it and occasionally get ideas for cartoons and figured, why … Continue reading
SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH WORKING LIKE A CHARM…
…and the capitalism for the rest of us is going just as you’d expect, and just as planned, i.e., horribly. From a Zero Hedge story masterfully headlined “Mission Accomplished: Stocks & Homeless Kids Hit All-Time Highs”: “Something is dreadfully wrong … Continue reading
STRIKE! WALMART OVERDUE FOR A COMEUPPANCE
I posted the above meme on Facebook, which elicited the following response from a dear and longtime friend (in the physical world) of mine: Dumb bullshit. Walmart workers are responsible for themselves. It is their own decisions that put them … Continue reading
THE ABSURDITY OF DEBT AND OF NOT CANCELLING IT
Salon has been on fire with truth lately, this article on student debt being no exception. From the article, we find out the following very interesting nugget: The total national student loan debt is more than $1.2 trillion, the bulk … Continue reading
THE END OF CHEAP LABOR AND CHEAP CREDIT—WHAT NEXT?
So I agree with the overall premise of this David Stockman article: cheap labor in the East allowed cheap credit to proliferate in the West: “It was the two-decades-long flow of quasi-slave labor into the export factories of east China … Continue reading
DEBT JUBILEE: THE AFTERMATH
Let’s say that tomorrow, out of the blue, there was a complete debt jubilee. Meaning, if you went to bed tonight with $100K in student loans and $3K left until your car is paid off, and a mortgage you’re 20 … Continue reading
BANKS PUT ALL RISK ON US, THEN TAKE ALL THE REWARD AND PRETEND THAT IS CAPITALISM
We all know that all fiat money, such as the U.S. dollar, is created out of thin air not by banks but by the people and only has value because said people ultimately have “faith” in it. This is uncontroversial … Continue reading