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We’re in a bad economic period and we’re feeling it. Due to a combination of factors, mostly related to the inflationary policies of the world’s governments during the COVID lockdowns and ongoing lockdowns in China, we’ve seen price inflation that has made it more difficult and more expensive to live. (more…)
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First the good news: 2022 is over. Now the bad news: 2023 is just beginning.
I am an incurably irascible person who wrote roughly 100 articles for Counter-Currents last year. (more…)
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Sometime in the mid-1990s, while amusing myself by batting around ideas for fake racial-justice charity organizations such as “Negrowth” and “Up With Negroes!”, I conceived of a satirical Nazi-Zionist alliance called “Never Say, ‘Never Again.’” (more…)
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Well, there was no “Red Wave.” It hardly even qualified as a Red Spurt.
It wasn’t a sweep. It wasn’t even a light dusting. This was the puniest “reckoning” in electoral history. This would have been an uncharacteristically meager midterm pushback even during relatively normal times. (more…)
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Several trends in the United States related to home ownership are developing that I find rather startling. Some of those trends have been slow, taking decades to mature, and perhaps have been noticed by many. Other trends are more acute temporally, springing up only over the past few years. These trends have altered the landscape of home ownership, and overall have made home ownership and housing security far more difficult for most Americans. (more…)
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Nick Jeelvy welcomed longtime friend of the show Karl Thorburn to the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc to discuss unlimited power and its applications. (more…)
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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)
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Part 5 of 5
Chapter I
Minor Addenda and Varia
I have never met a gambler with an ounce of intelligence, but the prejudice against lotteries is in the category of superstitions, totemism and taboo. Lotteries can harm only the imbeciles who buy tickets, but these imbeciles appear to be wholly in their own right. (more…)
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Part 4 of 5
Chapter I
Politics, A Necessary Digression
Science or no science an economic system or lack-of-system is bound to be affected by the political system in which or beside which it exists, and more especially by the preconceptions or prejudices or predispositions and attitudes implied in the political system. (more…)
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We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception.
I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. (more…)
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Adam Fergusson
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Old Street Publishing, 2010
