Summertime!

I'm looking forward to my first seminar starting on Monday at The Independent Institute in Oakland. Should be a good time. I just got an e-mail from The Foundation for Economic Education telling me that I needed to dress business casual for their seminar in two weeks time.

What the hell does business casual mean?

I'm going to miss Anna while I'm gone, but she needs some well-deserved time to herself! If y'all are in Placerville this summer, hit me up and we'll head on out to the river for some fun in the sun.

Peace!

Dead Aid and the Wonders of Technology and Liberty

If y'all are interested in why Africa is mired in poverty, this economist provides a great economic explanation for the poverty. While my interest in explaining Africa and exposing its greatness to others will focus on laws and politics, being able to understand economics (the study of the working of the means-ends principle in human affairs) only strengthens my understanding of the region and the wonderful people who inhabit it. Africans are truly the kindest, gentlest people on the entire planet.

In other news, this blog statement brought tears to my eyes. As the internet becomes available to more and more people, governments and the tyranny they represent will continue to struggle to be seen as legitimate. Without the internet and its ability to promote ideas unhindered by government censors and regulators, the people of the world would still have difficulties discovering why there is so much trouble in the world today. The revolution lives on. Don't Tread on Me!

For all of my friends on the American Left

You suckers keep crying about how deregulation and Ponzi schemes are what got us into this mess, and I keep massaging my temples and shaking my head....

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

- Murray Rothbard

You guys need to do some serious studying of economic theory and history before you pledge your life to defending the State.

Check out these articles and then we can talk about economics and the ill-effects of deregulation:

• a teacher at St. Lawrence University has this to say to the Left on deregulation and free markets.

• an anarchist explains how corporations actually benefit from the very State that Lefties and conservatives defend.

• a professor at Loyola College in Maryland writes about deregulation myths here.

• an eminent economist debunks the Reagan myth of deregulation.

• another denouncement of Reaganomics and its supposed policies of deregulation.

• here, an economist from Sweden explains how government - and NOT deregulation, created the current economic crises.

• again, this time a teacher in Spain explains how the Federal Reserve banking cartel created the crises (I'll give you a hint, it was not because of deregulation).

• this article points out that regulation actually contributes (rather heavily) to the fraudulence so prevalent on Wall Street today.
  

You suckers need to do some serious reading and some heavy pondering before you start casting stones at glass houses. The American economy has been heavily regulated for the past eight decades, and this is precisely what has laid the groundwork for an inevitable economic collapse, what has given rise to the corporate state and what has funded the American government's Imperial ambitions around the world.

The free market and deregulation did not cause this mess, government did. Failure to recognize this will ultimately make your lives and your family's lives that much harder.