The Just Third Way

Last Thursday we noted how central banking was diverted from its original purpose from the very beginning in 1694, a...

A number of very positive things have happened this week, so we’ll go straight to the news items and cut the intro...

Maybe it was the tagline that caught our attention: “ Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble.”   (“ The...

This is the time of year many Christians celebrate (if that’s the right word) “Lent.”   Lent is a period of forty da...

Yesterday we noted that to make the bargaining positions of “labor” and “capital” equal, it is only necessary to turn owners of lab...

Last Thursday we fiddled around a bit with the concept of “productivity” as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistic...

We may not have very many news items this week, but they are on important issues . . . such as the basis of the Ju...

O ccasionally we post a blog not because people want it, but because we think they need it.  Can we force anyone to read it?  No, of...

We were going to call this “Capital Formation for Dummies,” but we don’t want to risk a lawsuit from one of our favorite — and most useful...

A s we saw yesterday, America — the world — needs a “new frontier.”   Nor can it be a frontier restricted to an élite ...

At the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) delivered a paper titled, “The ...

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the current fluctuations in the world’s stock markets is the fixed — and ...

Probably few people today know what a “false front” is — or, more accurately, was .   They do not have the questionable advantage o...

Yesterday we saw how commercial and central banks acting in concert as intended can create an elastic and asset-backed reserve curr...

We ended yesterday’s posting by agreeing with the old saw that you need money to make money.   Traditionally, this has meant at lea...

Last week we decided that having private property in capital is absolutely essential if someone is to have the power to exercise hi...

This has been an interesting week for the Just Third Way.   Work is progressing on our analysis of the 1916 Easter...

Despite the obvious fact that technology produces marketable goods and services better, less expensively, and in gre...

We ended yesterday’s posting with the eternal question, Why, if private property in capital is so important to the establishment an...

Socialists-Who-Deny-They-are-Socialists (as well as a number of socialists) often reject the claim that socialism can be defined as...