Category Archives: fiat currency
IF WE’RE GONNA HAVE FREE MARKET WAGES, CAN WE AT LEAST HAVE A FREE MARKET?
Because currently, we do not have anything approaching a free market. A free market would not have bailouts, bail-ins, subsidies, licensure requirements, exemptions from regulations as size increases, QE, ZIRP, rigged prices, etc. Libertarians often say that a minimum wage … Continue reading
“THERE IS NO NOTE HOLDER” REVISITED: AN ATTORNEY’S PERSPECTIVE
Two days ago I wrote the post “Is There Even A Note Holder To Pay?” Shelley Erickson then posted on Facebook a very similar article from two years ago written by the Minnesota judiciary’s favorite whipping boy, Bill Butler. The … Continue reading
$200 TO SETTLE $10K? OPEN THE “SECONDARY DEBT MARKET” TO THE PUBLIC AND FIX THE ECONOMY!
So the Rolling Jubilee continues! Right on! It’s a great idea, but one wonders, why can’t we all be given the option to do this ourselves? That is, why can’t we buy our own bad debts and thereby extinguish them? … Continue reading
POPE: “Money must serve, not rule”
So it turns out the new Pope is just like me, but infallible! Or at least he thinks like me when it comes to money issues. I read parts of his latest exhortation, and I was overjoyed to hear his … Continue reading
BLACK FRIDAY: IS NOTHING SACRED?
What? Prices at retail are rigged, too? Even on Black Friday, that most holy of all shopping days? Heaven forfend! Yes, turns out it’s not just the price of oil, financial products, gold, etc. that are outright rigged or at … Continue reading
HOW TO WIN THE CLASS WAR WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT
Brilliant, dead-on analysis of the current state of play on the chessboard we call life by Chris Hedges at Truthdig–“Let’s Get This Class War Started“: “For every dollar that the wealthiest 0.1 percent amassed in 1980 they had an additional … Continue reading