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The Republicans are pursuing the Samson policy . You should know the story.  Samson was a Nazirine. He wasn't supposed to cut his hair, ...

My friend Rick Lemarr writes ( my [] contain comments) with: “More proof that the neoliberals, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, etc. [Pira...

Today is the last day of the year (I wrote this at the end of 2018). I started to watch "Atlas Shrugged" on a lark.  Folks often m...

And Healthcare There is a lane for social goods and there is a lane for private goods. Henry George made the distinction based on whether ...

Privateering and Smuggling Model Post Elements of Privateering ...

Klepto Policies George Lakoff recommended using the word Privateering to describe klepto political policies like privatization. That term ...

In a paper published by Edward J. McCaffery titled "The Death of the Income Tax" he explains how the income tax became a wage tax ...

Piracy is as old as the use of the oceans in commerce. A pirate is a thief who operates on the ocean. However, due to the way this world wo...

Money manager capitalism is financial capitalism. But financial capitalism is only tangential to actual capital. It means money making money...

Accounting Money, Piracy and Credit The theme of piracy and privateering describes our current economic system, both as a humorous metapho...

...And Privateering is Legalized Piracy Privateers wage private war, They: Raise Private Armies Privatize and Extract Resources Privat...

National Health Service The best way to manage our health care rationally, and to provide for good healthcare for everything, is to put at...

The Free Press Under Assault from Incipient Oligarchs A Free Press has to have these three Attributes: Free And Unfettered Access to New...

Gresham's law, in a sovereign country, becomes a tool to manage money. So-called "Good money" becomes a commodity, measured b...

Thomas G Shearman Advice on Taxing Corporations Until fairly recently most Federal Revenues came from Corporate taxes rather than Income T...

Post Keynesianism Versus Kakistocracy We have a whole generation of struggling young people. Some of whom have turned to leftist revolutio...

People who see business as opportunity to loot, and competition as about economic warfare, are pirates not legitimate businessmen. And when...

We Are Not Neoliberal Friends of mine constantly accuse various Democrats of being "neoliberal". The term has some definite mean...

This continues a post Tory Economics Versus Benjamin Franklin which in turn completes something I wrote back in 2015 . Benjamin Franklin w...

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/publications/economic-education/ben-franklin-and-paper-money-economy.pdf Franklin saw paper mo...