Some interesting observations about money from Washington’s blog. Bloomberg notes this week that the conventional theory of why money was created is wrong: There are, broadly speaking, two accounts of the origin and history of money. One is elegant, intuitive and taught in many introductory economics textbooks. The other is true. The financial economist Charles […]
Tag Archives: Freedom
“In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies’ resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to […]
And that goes for us over here in NZ too! Do you love liberty and freedom? If so, you better watch your back. The control freaks that run our society are stripping away our liberties and freedoms a little bit more each day, and lately they seem to be particularly focused on coming after those […]
Good to know that “our” leaders have integrity. As far as I’m aware there is only one wall left in the whole wide world: the wall around the Gaza strip. Let’s fight that fucker!!! The key countries in the Cold War pledged yesterday to fight division and meet the new challenges of the 21st century […]
This is what Steve Pierson who blogs at the Standard had to say about freedom this morning. I couldn’t agree more.