Monthly Archives: August 2017

I, Pencil

  “A film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from the 1958 essay [I, Pencil] by Leonard E. Read.” Mr. Read was a grocery chain owner and in the 1940s, he founded the Foundation for Economic Education in response to market-distorting New … Continue reading

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“What the Mainstream Doesn’t Get about Bitcoin” – by Charles Hugh Smith

While I don’t recommend anyone purchase BTC (current price here), I find it not only interesting for its potential future value (more gamble than investment), but particularly useful as a hedge against currency devaluation. I  bought some a few years … Continue reading

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AMZN, Taxes and Fair Shares: Who pays theirs? Better yet, who takes more than theirs?

  Article from The Sun today: “Angry MPs urge Brits to boycott Amazon as it’s revealed the online giant’s UK tax bill HALVED last year – while sales soared. Politicians and campaigners rounded on the US giant for coughing up … Continue reading

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Ever Cheaper Lighting: The Techno-Economic Marvel

  Just when you thought progress wasn’t being made, technologic advancements and plunging prices in lighting over the past 200 years put things in a different light, so to speak. From man’s early history B.C. it took about 400 labor … Continue reading

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The War on Drugs

  The War on Drugs. The primary reason that law enforcement and politicians resist de-criminalizing drugs is that drugs give them entry, excuse and control of others and their property that they would otherwise have no justification for interfering with, … Continue reading

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