Focus The focus of the American Monetary Institute was and is on the almost unbridled credit creation facility of commercial banks (and its frequent turning off the tap) as a major cause of the destructive booms & busts in the financial sector and its spilling over into the real economy with disastrous consequences … Continue reading “The American Monetary Institute: The View from a Steward”
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Additions to Bibliography February 2023
B. Academic Studies on Sovereign Monetary Theory and Reform Armelius, Hanna & Carl Andreas Claussen, David Vestin. 2020. “Money and monetary policy in times of crisis”. Monetary Policy Department and the Payments Department of the Riksbank. Riksbank of Sweden. Economic Commentaries, 4 (11 June 2020): 1-15. Assenmacher, Katrin & Claus Brand. 2018. “The Swiss … Continue reading “Additions to Bibliography February 2023”
Troubles in Scotland of the East
A lethal incident at the Meghalaya-Assam border, now named the Mukroh Massacre, rippling through the state cancelling festivals in its wake.
A lethal incident at the Meghalaya-Assam border, now named the Mukroh Massacre, rippling through the state cancelling festivals in its wake.
John Titus is not up to Snuff? Or the Need for Epistemic Maturation
Making the case that John Titus was construing a false connection between 1) a BlackRock semi-public economics paper discussing the possibility of the FED ‘going direct’ and b) a later instantiation of that policy by the FED during the Covid-19 emergency.
Making the case that John Titus was construing a false connection between 1) a BlackRock semi-public economics paper discussing the possibility of the FED ‘going direct’ and b) a later instantiation of that policy by the FED during the Covid-19 emergency.
Launch Announcement of Democratizar el Dinero
The Alliance For Just Money is excited to have stepped into the publishing business by releasing a Spanish anthology of a dozen translations of high quality articles on the latest findings in monetary theory and on ongoing improved reasons for real monetary reform. The title is Democratizar el Dinero. Una introducción a la Reforma del … Continue reading “Launch Announcement of Democratizar el Dinero”
Bilderberg, Beyond the Taboo
© Peter Edel, 2020 The Dutch King, the Prime Minister, and a Minister associated themselves with an anti-democrat who financed right-wing extremists. At the beginning of June of this year, a tradition was missing: the Bilderberg conference. The annual gathering of the elite from politics, business, the media and science has been postponed for the … Continue reading “Bilderberg, Beyond the Taboo”
On Trump: More on Alex Jones
In quite some ways the following is an instructive story. In July 2000 Alex Jones, Mike Hanson and British journalist Jon Ronson infiltrated the yearly Bohemian Grove gathering of very wealthy and well-connected people just north of San Francisco. They dressed up as preppy, casual CEOs and slipped into the estate with hidden cameras without … Continue reading “On Trump: More on Alex Jones”
Nietzsche’s Reluctant Acceptance of Liberal Democracy (and later Rejection)
Introduction. The questions to be addressed in this essay are 1) whether we can extract from Nietzsche’s book Human, All Too Human, which was written in his more moderate science-oriented middle period, something of a political view; 2) whether this view can be construed, with some hedging here and there, as supporting modern liberal democracy; … Continue reading “Nietzsche’s Reluctant Acceptance of Liberal Democracy (and later Rejection)”
Darwinian Conservatism and the Liberal Welfare State
§1. Introduction. In his book Darwinian Conservatism the political scientist Larry Arnhart makes the case that traditional conservatism is the right political philosophy for humanity to follow because “it rests on a view of human nature that is supported by Darwinian biology” (Arnhart, 10). Arnhart developed his case by way of defending five propositions, each … Continue reading “Darwinian Conservatism and the Liberal Welfare State”
Talking about Borders
Often maps can convey ideas better than words. One example is this terrific map I recently found illustrating the geographical dimension of the ‘Trilateral West’ or ‘North-Western Triad’, which is composed of the three economic power houses, Japan, the US and the EU, including some of its loyal satellites like South Korea, Australia, New … Continue reading “Talking about Borders”