JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XII

Our podcast today is Episode Twelve of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, “Undercover Odysseus.”  And, yes, we’re still on the Odyssey:

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It’s astonishing how much the news items seem to be the same week after week . . . what with the same old people doing the same old things.  Many of these, if not all, could be resolved by adopting the Economic Democracy Act — so it might not matter all that much, except that the degree of the problem is increasing, although not the essence thereof:

“Doing Fine So Far”

There’s a very old and very bad joke about the optimist who fell out of a skyscraper window.  As he passed some of the floors on the way down, people would call out to him, “How’s it going?” and he’d reply, “Doing fine so far!”

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XI

Our podcast today is Episode Eleven of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, “Odysseus, Go Home!” . . . by which you can probably figure out we’re still on the Odyssey:

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Not that it’s much of a surprise, but this week’s news items strongly resemble those of last week!  I know, you’re absolutely flabbergasted.  Fortunately, since the recommended solution is the same this week as last week — viz., adopt the Economic Democracy Act — so it might not matter all that much, except that the degree of the problem is increasing, although not the essence thereof:

How to Gamble with Government Bonds

Small or conservative investors are typically told that government debt is the safest and most conservative type of investment they can have.  Of course, given the current level of political stability in the world, that might not be saying much.

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, X

 

And now for something not completely different.  Our podcast today is Episode Ten of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, “How to Lead a Better Life” and the Odyssey instead of the Iliad!:

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It’s been yet another week of Federal Reserve follies, with all the experts thinking they’re smarter than what experience and intelligence has long proved to be the case: that Keynesian economics and the Currency Principle simply don’t work, nor can they.  For such gloomy people, they continually rely on the triumph of optimism over experience and think if they just keep doing what hasn’t worked for nearly a century it’s bound to work sometime . . . or they could do the rational thing and adopt the Economic Democracy Act:

De-Dollarization Diplomacy

Economists and their political stooges . . . or maybe that’s politicians and their economic stooges (it’s so hard to keep that straight these days in a Keynesian plutocracy) profess to be terrified and worried and even a trifle concerned about the possibility of the U.S. Dollar losing its place as the primary global reserve currency.

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, IX

Our podcast today is Episode Nine of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, asking the immortal question, “Is the Iliad Worth Reading?”  Obviously, we’re still on the Iliad:

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It appears as if China is at the top of the economic news, along with the usual confusion about inflation.  Of course, all this would be moot if some country would just adopt the Economic Democracy Act, but what do you want, a miracle?

An Introduction to Reason and Logic

We’ve repeated this so many times on this blog that most of our readers should have this memorized by now, but we’ll do it again anyway, if only for old times’ sake.  The “first principle of reason” can be stated in two ways, one positive and one negative.  The positive statement of the first principle of reason is called the law or principle of identity.  It can be stated, “That which is true is as true, and is true in the same way, as everything else that is true.”

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, VIII

Our podcast today is Episode Eight of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, asking “Who are the Gods?”  Obviously, we’re still on the Iliad:

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Well, we lost the bet.  We were sure he’d drop off a balcony, fall down some stairs, or shoot his entire family after doing away with himself.  And in other news, all the so-called experts are still jumping up and down about situations that could probably either be ameliorated or solved simply by adopting the Economic Democracy Act:, which is outlined in The Greater Reset which you can get in any quantity for $5 a copy until the end of August, available from TAN Books, an imprint of Saint Benedict Press:

Some Thoughts on Hyperinflation

Over on Medium, we’ve been working on a series of articles on the dangers of reparations and inflation as they related to the rise of Adolf Hitler.  Unfortunately, as is the case with many things about the Just Third Way, people see a word used in an unexpected or unfamiliar way and immediately assume they Know All About It . . . especially when they know little or nothing.  They bring their own baggage to the discussion and nothing on Earth is going to shake them loose from their preconceptions, especially not empirical evidence, or logical consistency.

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, VII

Our podcast today is Episode Seven of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, on a turning point in the Iliad:

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The REAL news this week is that you can get The Greater Reset in any quantity for $5 a copy until the end of August, available from TAN Books, an imprint of Saint Benedict Press.  Just sayin’.  The rest of the news is All About Inflation That Isn’t There Except When It Is.  In other words, another spate of reasons for adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

“A Decent Place to Live”

In the United States, people are witnessing cities and states carving out spaces separate from the federal government.  Some cities reaffirm their commitment as sanctuaries and develop policies to direct local officials to defuse irrational and unjust conflicts, but that’s just the beginning.

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, VI

Our podcast today is Episode Six of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, asking the question whether we’re just pawns in the hands of the gods:

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The news items this week are anything but new.  Rather than pre-depress you, however, let’s just add to the reasons for adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

“Just, Thriving, and Sustainable Communities”

The objectives of the “Heart of America” project are to eradicate the economic roots of poverty, war, and racism.  This can be done by promoting justice and democratization of ownership for every person through equal access to private property rights in productive capital. In the words of R. Buckminster Fuller, the goal is “[t]o make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, V

Our podcast today is Episode Five of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, on the subject of the Great Books not being quite as easy to read as you might have thought:

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The big economic news this week is the Federal Reserve raising interest rates and many of the experts rushing to say why it’s such a bad idea.  Other experts, no doubt seeing the writing on the wall, are starting to declare that a recession is inevitable or necessary.  None of them are saying that it’s possible to get off the whole boom-and-bust treadmill completely by adopting the Economic Democracy Act:

A City Divided, Part II

In the previousposting on this subject, we noted that despite whatever efforts had been made, St. Louis, Missouri is a city divided along economic, cultural, and racial lines, and it’s not accidental.  “There are two reasons St. Louis looks the way it does today,” noted Michael Allen, director of the Preservation Research Office. “There’s been this perpetual, successive fight of whites and middle-class people from the core of the city, and the same relationships tended to reconstitute themselves across a wide swath of geography.”