Category: Money Matters
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Good Societies and Good Lives
A Substack post on state-run lotteries.
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Soaring Auto Insurance Rates
I received the bill for my 2013 Jeep Wrangler Sport the other day: $302.89 for six months. For the preceding six months I paid 274.09, and the six months before that 260.42. So yesterday I paid my agent a visit and reminded him of my stratospherically high credit rating, my lack of claims, my sterling…
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The Cashless Road to Totalitarianism
During the Great Covid Scare, some restaurants stopped accepting cash payments for health reasons. Whatever the intention, that is a policy that aids and abets an incipient police state. Exaggerate some health threat. Inspire fear in a gullible populace of highly suggestible conformists. Ban cash in the name of public health. Result? Everyone making…
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Money
Whether or not the U. S. dollar remains the world's currency of choice, money itself will always be the ultimate currency and criterion of human seriousness and human understanding. Money matters. "Money doesn't talk, it swears." (Bob Dylan) "When money talks, ideology walks." (Lee Iacocca) Just ask Traitor Joe. As if in illustration of Lee's…
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Billionaire Donors Withholding Loot from Leftist Seminaries
Long-time donors are finally waking up to the wokeassery* of once-great universities that have for decades been transmogrifying into leftist seminaries. ('Seminary' is etymologically related to 'semen' and in the seminaries in question the origin of the jism is masturbatory: nothing productive comes from these seed beds.) I predicted the donor revolt on 13 October…
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The End of Liberty is Nigh: The Digital Pound and Cancel Culture
And to add insult to injury, irony to outrage, the end of liberty is being ushered in by the mother country. Here: The digital pound would be a new type of money issued by the Bank of England for everyone to use for day-to-day spending. You would be able to use it in-store or online…
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Radix Omnium Malorum
Top o' the Stack
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Why are People so Easy to Swindle?
My answer at Substack.
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CBDC
Are you ready? What could possibly go wrong?
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Work, Money, Living, and Livelihood
Substack latest. Paul, Baruch, and Henry had the right idea.
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Globalist Greenies Go after Cryptomining in New York State
Story here. To understand the issue, bear in mind that bitcoins are not literally mined, they are 'mined' using supercomputers which consume a lot of electricity. Anthony Flood sent me the hyperlink. He comments: Bitcoin threatens globalist/statist "green" agenda . . . and everything else on their to-do list. No monopoly on money via fiat…
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Earning and Living
The trick is to earn a living without living to earn.
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The Biden Inflation Octopus
He looks like a farmer because he is one. He invariably talks sense. No deracinated globalist, he is rooted, grounded, and 'based' — to stoop to an unnecessary innovation in current lingo. He's my man, Hanson: The Democrats will suffer historic losses in the November midterms. This disaster for their party will come about not…
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The Worst Thing about Poverty
Substack latest. A quotation from Theodor Haecker with a bit of commentary.
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The Mighty Tetrad: Money, Power, Sex, and Recognition
Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex,…