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The Lie Of The Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve was built from a number of false premises, desires, and demands of the powerful elite in finance and banking who wanted more “elasticity” in the monetary system. Such a system would allow them to generate income off … Read More
A Brief History Of The Definition Of Inflation
A reference by Michael Bryan, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, discloses the history of the concept of inflation. A Federal Reserve Bulletin from 1919 defined inflation as “the process of making addition to currencies not based on a commensurate increase … Read More
The Federal Reserve Has Failed And Inflation Is Destructive
Prior to the establishment of the Federal Reserve, federal debt remained very low – typically 10 percent to zero – and only surging upward during wartime. But since the establishment of the Federal Reserve, federal debt has surged and never … Read More
The 16th Amendment Imposed
The income tax established by the 16th Amendment imposed what resembled a flat tax – a one percent on the net income of individuals plus a surtax, ranging from one to six percent, on income above specific thresholds. Therefore, it was … Read More
Evil On Jekyll Island
The construction of the Federal Reserve began as an undercover operation when Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich called a secret meeting at the Jekyll Island Clubhouse on Jekyll Island, Georgia (see Photos 1 and 2). Six men, including Nelson, Assistant … Read More
A History Of Deflation And Prosperity
A study of economic history reveals that anytime in the United States when there exists a price inflation of the overall increase of the price of goods and services there is destructive economic government intervention taking place.[1] As Austrian … Read More
FDR Makes The Federal Reserve In His Own Image
In 1933 changes by the Roosevelt Administration to the Federal Reserve “wrought in the U.S. financial system by the New Deal” would “[plunge the monetary system] into massive fraud upon the American public by claiming to rescue the nation from … Read More
The Indispensable Tyrant
President Franklin Roosevelt was in a state of delusion. He saw himself as the only one who could see the promised horizon and lead the ship accordingly. FDR’s Brain Trust member and financial advisor, James Warburg, wrote, “Mr. Roosevelt has utterly lost … Read More
The Significant Economic Contrast Between The 1920s And The 1930s
The comparison and contrast economically between the 1920s and the 1930s is significant. It is a comparison between: embracing American Exceptionalism (1920s, Coolidge-Harding) and rejecting American Exceptionalism (1930s, Hoover-Roosevelt); an adherence to the Great Experiment (1920s, Coolidge-Harding) and a … Read More
The Clash Of Two Worldviews: Statism And Liberty
Despite the Roosevelt Administration’s effort, coercion, and propaganda, by 1934 the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was losing ground. Many smaller businesses around the country, finding the NRA intolerable, began defying its regulations, ignoring fines levied against them, and filing … Read More
FDR Takes Lessons From Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson directly attacked citizens on pricing; for example, the seizure of property such as eggs, sugar, dry salt pork, salmon, and pig’s ears, when the stores would not agree “to sell them at a ‘reasonable’ price and under … Read More
The Malicious Symbol Of The Blue Eagle
The malicious symbol of the NRA (National Recovery Administration) was the Blue Eagle; as evil often does cloak itself in something seemingly good, or in this case– patriotic.
The NRA soon demanded that all of its advocates use the new … Read More
FDR, The Dictator
Franklin Roosevelt ushered in the National Industrial Recovery Act, NIRA, in the late spring of 1933. It was tragically supported by many industrial leaders at the time; as well as the Chamber of Commerce’s president, H.I. Harriman. A quote from … Read More
Recessions Are Predictable, And So Is Government’s Failure To End Them
In March 2012 Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan commented about the debt crisis resulting from the Great Recession of 2008, saying,
“This coming debt crisis is the most predictable crisis we’ve ever had in this country.”[1]
Congressman Ryan is echoing … Read More
Elizabeth Warren’s Great Depression Economics, Part 3
In my first article of this series of four articles, Elizabeth Warren’s Great Depression Economics, Part 1, I proposed that we can know and understand future economic results by knowing and understanding past economic patterns and the results they generated. In … Read More
Elizabeth Warren’s Great Depression Economics, Part 2
In my first article of this series of four articles, Elizabeth Warren’s Great Depression Economics, Part 1, I proposed that we can know and understand future economic results by knowing and understanding past economic patterns and the results they generated. In … Read More
Elizabeth Warren’s Great Depression Economics, Part 1
Elizabeth Warren is currently being credited as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination and the one who will go head-to-head with President Trump. So what would a Warren Administration look like (or any of the current democratic potential nominees, for … Read More
How FDR Systematically Destroyed Business Investment For 11 Years
The great Austrian economist Murray Rothbard elucidated, “Before the massive government interventions of the 1930s, all recessions were short-lived.”[1] The deceptive narrative of collectivists about the “Roaring Twenties” and the New Deal goes like this:
Capitalists and speculators went wild … Read More
The Only Path To Economic Equalization Is Tyranny
Many complain that there is greater differential between the wealthiest and the least wealthy – but there must be in order to prosper without tyranny. The key indicator to watch is, as President Kennedy referenced, the level of wealth increasing … Read More
Full Employment Is Full Foolishness
As discussed in This Mistake Collapsed Europe’s Richest Empire And Might Do The Same To Us, the government has no incentive to manage funds well, as they have a seemingly endless source of revenue – either tax revenue or borrowed … Read More
Keynesian Economics: A Theory With 80 Years Of Failure
“John Maynard Keynes is considered one of the leading lights of liberal economics.”[1] He is currently, and remains, the most significant economist to impact America’s economy in modern times. As discussed in previous articles (here, here, here, and here), the adaption of Keynesianism … Read More
Harvard Keynesian Admits Failures Of Spending Stimulus Plans
Keynesians believe, not only the fallacy that government confiscating the wealth of the citizenry then knowing where, when and how to spend it better than the citizens, that government spending leads to a multiplier effect. Essentially, the more government spends … Read More
How Keynesianism Caused The Great Depression
In 1926, President Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, stated this economic nonsense, “The very essence of great production is high wages and low prices, because it depends on upon widening….consumption, only to be obtained from the purchasing-power of high … Read More
Keynesian Economics Turns The Whole Economy Into A Gigantic Ponzi Scheme
This is a circular discussion which is not logical in its rationale. Accordingly to Keynesians – and derived John Maynard Keynes’s texts – economic activity is presented in terms of a circular flow of money. Dr. Frank Shostak[1] brilliantly explains this … Read More