The Just Third Way

  We know there is a depressing sameness about the weekly news items . . . but there’s also a depressing sameness about the refusal to adopt...

Once upon a time G.K. Chesterton published a book he titled What’s Wrong with the World .   While the book was intended to oppose socialism ...

Today we have Dawn K. Brohawn and Michael D. Greaney on The Frontline with Joe and Joe talking about “Economic Independence.”   Of course, ...

Mostly what’s going on in the Global Justice Movement is preparing for the April 29, 2023, conference in Bridgeport, CT, on the Economic Dem...

Especially this time of year it’s common to hear proposals about how to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service and institute a simpler, kind...

  Getting past the rather bizarre and kind of gross story about the severed foot, it helps illustrate the difference bet...

Now that Easter is over and the pinch of high egg prices has somewhat ameliorated and people are fed up (literally) with chocolate bunnies, ...

  A recent book about money — and that coincidentally costs a lot of it — is John Cochrane’s The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level , which ca...

Here is a podcast about how to win an argument by getting “buy-in” from others, giving the example of how Misterrogers saved PBS.   It doesn...

  Christians celebrate this as “Holy Week,” but it also applies to everyone else if you’re talking about the economy and the world situation...

Some time ago we took part in a conference during which a participant made the statement that he was for human rights, not property rights. ...

And now for something completely different . . . not.   In this short video produced by the ESOP Association — which is not a “stock OPTION ...

  Everyone seems to be agreeing that we are headed into a recession (Keynesian newspeak for depression), but nobody seems to know what to do...

Saturday, March 25, 2023, saw an astonishingly stupid article appeared in the Washington Post .   “The Dollar is Our Superpower, and Russia ...

This is not the talk that we heard, which was a few years later, but is interesting and in a sense prophetic, as it was given on May 10, 198...

Everyone is still trying to figure out what to do about the war in Ukraine and the bank failures (as well as everything else), but it shou...

In the previous posting on this subject, we closed by noting that the financier J. Pierpont Morgan saved the country from the “Panic of 1907...

Usually when we talk about economics, what we really mean is political economy, the science of production, distribution, and consumption of ...

If you happen to be at least 150 years old, you will recall the Panic of 1907, a.k.a., “the Bankers’ Panic,” and not be surprised at the cur...

The recent bank failures have once again raised questions not only about the safety of the financial system, but its role in the economy.   ...