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    Who Needs Tariffs?

    April 23, 2025

    Who needs tariffs when you can screw everything up simply by talking about them?  Imagine all that cash rolling in.  Imagine all those foreigners crumbling under the thumb of the mighty good old USA.  Imagine …  Well, just imagine. Maybe it’s all for fun.  Maybe the joke’s on us.  Are we simply being too serious? […]

    Commentary / capitalism, democracy, oligarchs, plutocracy /

    Garbage Time: Running Out the Clock on America?

    April 16, 2025

    “Do you not weep? Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out” Webster is well known for the darkness of his plays. When he says murder shrieks out, I wonder which murder he is referring to. Or, perhaps, what is being murdered? These are dark days for freedom and democratic governance. Yes.  I am grumpy this […]

    Economics, Politics / capitalism, oligarchs, Tariffs, Thomas Mun, trade deficit, Trump /

    Trump as Mun?

    April 10, 2025

    We need new indices. We need new phrases. We need new frameworks. We need new, well, everything. If there’s one thing we have learned in that past week it is that the current American administration is overseen by a egomaniacal fool.  A dullard who basks in the glow of constant hyperbolic praise flowing from the […]

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