Radical Agenda
#RaiseTheWage was trending on Twitter today, and there is just too much fail in these trends to respond in 140 characters. So I decided to grab some of the images and respond to them more thoroughly here, because minimum wage is one of those things that really displays the idiocy of central economic planning better…...
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Today, the Federal Reserve is shipping brand new $100 bill to banks everywhere, reports Reuters. The new bills have two new security features; a blue 3D security ribbon with images of bells and 100s, and a color-changing bell in an inkwell. Neither of the new security features will do anything to prevent the Federal Reserve from…...
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Last night I had a terribly brief discussion about society with some family members. Within 15 minutes I was asked about energy, environment, education, foreign policy, and economics. Of course, I had answers for their questions, but these are complicated subjects when you have to deconstruct 60 years of government propaganda from a man’s mind…....
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If democracy is such a wonderful idea, why don’t we use it for say, ordering dinner? … This content is for Monthly Premium Membership and Yearly Premium Membership members only.Login Join Now...
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How many times have you heard this? It makes me grind my teeth every single time. The self righteousness of it alone annoys me, but the factual inaccuracy is what really sets me off. I hear this all the time, whether it’s about the discussion of force, use of foul language, extreme examples, or whatever…...
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The world may now rejoice, poverty has ended, and coercion was the cure all along. You silly anarchists with your peaceful methods, ha! If that sounds ridiculous, congrats, you’re sane. But that’s the claim being made by Tim Worstall, in Forbes today, and he actually makes some interesting points. Last week the US Census released figures on…...
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In a 9-1 vote, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to continue the $85 Billion/month bond buying program some have called “QE4Ever”. The move came as a surprise to more than 2/3 of economists recently polled by the Wall Street Journal who expected Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s news conference today, to include an announcement of tapering…...
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People often ask how this or that function of society would work in the absence of the State. Of course, each of those questions has its own answers, but there are some underlying core ideas that can help you come to your own conclusions, and which would become rather repetitive if I outlined them every…...
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Since when is violence considered intellectual? Since when does one person own the thoughts of another? Since about 400 years ago, as it turns out. I really like this subject because it was one of the last aspects of statism that I clung to before embracing the far clearer moral compass of voluntarism. If we…...
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