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The Federal Reserve seems to have finally committed to, but has not yet begun its “rate cutting cycle” of lower interest rates, specifically the Federal Funds Rate, or policy rate. This lines up well with what I have been thinking and saying here and elsewhere; the Fed was not likely to cut rates until the fall of 2024 or later. My thinking or

John Maynard Keynes was an English “economist” who spawned a revolution in economic thinking that broke out in Britain from a cesspool of socialist thinking, creating a title wave of anti-economics that overwhelmed and dominated the economics profession worldwide known as Keynesian economics. His experience as an investor is very instructive of

Prepping is a very small industry in the United States, with annual spending specifically on “prepping” less than what government will spend in the time it took me to prepare this episode of the podcast. The amount of spending is an interesting issue, so is the purpose and efficiency of prepping. However, the mainstream media demeans preppers as

“In the direct handling of economic life, governments are usually clumsy and ineffective. ...Their main business should be that of traffic cop, not that of driver, and above all not that of back-seat driver.” Benjamin Anderson is a rare example of an American economist who wrote in the Austrian tradition long before Ludwig von Mises emigrated to

Children in the US are raised to be communists. Most of the parents are too and don’t even know it. It doesn’t matter if you send them to public or private schools as all the education degree-granting schools bias the learning process against the competitive capitalist “liberal” or open-minded society. Instead, the curriculum is less about