Every Piece Of The Puzzle
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The principle under which we operate is a simple one: as a political system has implications for everything (and we mean absolutely everything), then it is also fair game that we review everything (and we mean absolutely everything).
It is for this very reason that this site is hectic, to say the least. It is not just because modern democracies permeate everything that everybody does, but because this is no…
Have Democracies Outlived Their Purpose?
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Most people go through life never asking what is the primary purpose of the governments we endure. For them governments just are. They exist. Like the flu or the rain. Nothing one can do about them. They are just a natural phenomenon. These people intuitively believe that governments fulfill some sort of very important and ultimate purpose that cannot be fulfilled in any other way. They firmly believe -because they…
The Great Chinese End Game
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Many people have seen news about what China is doing. There have been talks about Chinese products, Chinese services, Chinese purchases, Chinese political manoeuvring and so on. But what is the overall Chinese strategy? What it is that they are attempting to accomplish?
They are attempting to accomplish what every other rising power has ever attempted throughout the history of humanity: to control the world.
Yes, we know. This sounds…
Lesson #229 - Austrian Economics For Dummies - The Criticality Of Time
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The necessity for time
Praxeology is the science of human action, but action occurs in time. It makes no sense to try to describe an action with no time reference. In other words, because there is an action there will be a past, a present and a future where this action will take place. It is not possible to have actions without time. Time is necessary for human actions to…
The Aggressiveness Of Modern Democracies
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Wars are a gigantic waste of our standards of living. They literally destroy our wellbeing during such events and many decades after. But as we have seen in the article Lets Play War, it also happens that even if wars are never actually fought they also keep destroying our wellbeing by syphoning out our wealth into "defense budgets". They literally annihilate vast amounts of capital on a continuous basis without…
Is Greece The New Argentina?
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Most of our readers know that we are big fans of Argentina because it points the way to the future. What has been happening in Argentina since the 50's is now beginning to happen world-wide, with one difference. We now have a new contestant.
Ladies and gentlemen of the public!
Introducing first: fighting out of the light blue corner, this country has a freestyle socialist / nationalist / kleptocraptic fighting…
Let's Play War
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One of the reasons why we are Libertarians (of the Absolute persuasion) is because we deeply dislike and distrust governments (we think we may have already mentioned this one or two times already…not sure). The problem with governments is that they waste our wealth while producing nothing. A typical example of such waste is military expenditure.
This type of expenditure is one of the worst because we get nothing in…
Happy New Tax Year!
- Category: Taxes
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Merry new…cycle perhaps? Oh. Whatever. Go ahead and celebrate as you please. It's not like January 1st makes any more sense than March 14 (according to the Sikh Nanakshahi calendar) or June 22nd (according to the people of Kutch) or September 23rd (according to the French Revolutionary Calendar). But why stop there? We could, you know, make it a variable day changing from year to year as in the Muslim…
It's A US-Centric World
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We know that the US is the only superpower left. We know so because we write in English and we use US slang (sometimes - you can call us recovering US-slangists). We know so because the Internet is mostly US news with US points of view, US assumptions and full of US people with -let's be politically correct here- "special needs". We also know so because the US economy and…
