The Blue Collar Economist: Recent Episodes
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5 July 2023 The outside world is looking at Yellow Freight and can’t understand how two sides of a negotiation could be so angry with each other that there are some who want to see their own jobs cut and watch the company go bankrupt. It’s been a 15 year road of concessions, give-backs, broken…
April, 2023 Welcome to the dawning of The New World Order, or as the World Economic Forum would put it, “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”. For those who attempt to keep up with current events, life has been happening hard and fast. Before one story of bad news leaves the news cycle , two or three…
We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent. James Warburg Look around yourself. What do you observe? Is it a world in chaos? Maybe a global pandemic trying to destroy human existence? Election fraud? Massive debt accumulation? Government tyranny? Endless wars? Famine? Injustice and the abuse of truth?…
So much has happened since my last article, to say the least. There are a few reasons why I haven’t written anything, mostly due to time constraints. I work full-time and don’t have the time available to devote the required research time to write more articles. I’ve just been charged another $99 by WordPress to…
Recently, Tom Woods discussed an AlterNet article entitled, “11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See If They’re Hypocrites”. The discussion revolved around ways to trick libertarians into “gotcha” moments by asking whether or not certain given items were examples of spontaneous order. One example of spontaneous order was a democracy. Tom, in his usual form,…
Many libertarians are already convinced that the private market can do anything the government can do, only more efficiently. There’s the historical example about Lysander Spooner outperforming the US Postal Service in the 18th century. Wherein he was so efficient at delivering the mails at a cheaper rate and to his customers’ front door, that…
Of all of the articles I have written, this one has pained me the most to write. In it, I will have to site and at times defend John Maynard Keynes, not his “General Theory”, but another paper he wrote in 1930 titled, “Economic Prospect of our Grandchildren“. If you haven’t read it, please read…