But How Did We Grow Apart To Begin With?

Our deep divisions may have started with the discarding of states’ rights.

The tragedy in Tucson has once again exposed the raw nerve of political posturing.

By now, conservatives must surely be getting accustomed to finding themselves in the “crosshairs” of blame for every conceivable misfortune. Continue reading

Blame Hubert Humphrey for the Fed’s Bad Policy

Demand for full employment leads the central bank to inflate bubbles.

“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in million is able to diagnose.”

John Maynard Keynes (1920) Continue reading