Why the Government’s Gold Reserve Is a Bad Thing
Does the US government need a gold reserve? No, it doesn’t. The government’s gold is basically an emergency slush fund for elites to use to preserve their political power.
Does the US government need a gold reserve? No, it doesn’t. The government’s gold is basically an emergency slush fund for elites to use to preserve their political power.
A common thread that will follow through most of this post is the fact that the non-harmful georgist goals are best fulfilled with a tax rate of zero. Amusingly, this is implied in the very name of the Land Value Tax. After all, value is something’s evaluated usefulness, and thus a tax would reduce the value of land, giving us a scenario where the only possible LVT would be zero, as a non-zero would have Value=Value-Tax, which is […]
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President Trump announced Friday another pause on some tariffs on products imported from Canada and Mexico after a rocky week for equities markets trying to price in their effects. At the same, he says that tariffs could go higher than 25% in the future. Trump’s stated reason for imposing the tariffs on the two USMCA partners is their failure to control illegal immigration and drug trafficking across their borders into the United States. Apparently, the president believes tariffs are the […]
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Na manhã desta quinta-feira, 13, o governador de Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, divulgou um vídeo nas redes sociais com críticas ao presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ele afirmou que o petista está em “modo avião, desconectado da realidade”. As críticas de Zema referem-se a declarações feitas por Lula durante um evento em Betim, Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, na terça-feira 11. No evento, Lula disse ser defensor dos mais necessitados e se comparou a Getúlio Vargas, ex-presidente […]
Will publishing someone’s name or workplace online soon be illegal in Georgia? Last week, the state Senate overwhelmingly voted to pass an antidoxing bill that would punish a wide range of common online speech by up to a year in jail. While the bill aims to protect individuals from having sensitive information—like their Social Security numbers or addresses—published without their consent, it goes far beyond such private information. The bill is a “law against criticism of any kind,” […]