NPR called today to solicit a 500-word commentary from me on the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace’s document on the economy, released today. They expect it to run tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I offer you this article on a related Vatican document; the arguments I…
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Then the age of central banking is for you. As even an IMF paper concedes, there were 124 banking crises just from 1970 to 2007, and 208 currency crises.  (Thanks to the LRC blog .)

Ron Paul was asked about student loan programs, which have made debt slaves out of countless kids, in his excellent interview on Meet the Press.  Here’s an excerpt from Rollback , my book from earlier this year, that amplifies his points: We know all about the easy-money…
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I can’t imagine too many of my readers aren’t already reading LewRockwell.com , but be sure also to read Lew’s blog .  I’ve posted there several times this week: The Hill: Love Romney, Huntsman, or You’ll Get Napolitano, Woods The Most Confused One Minute of All Time? Ha, Ha, Ha: Fed Should Communicate Better with Public ‘If Ron Is Elected, We Become Third World’ And be sure to read Lew’s relatively new Political Theatre blog , which he does solo.  It’s my favorite spot on…
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Both the Occupy Wall Street movement (the vast bulk of it, anyway) and some libertarians seem to think the corporate form of organization is wicked and unjust, and the latter believe it can exist only thanks to special grants of privilege by the state.  Via…
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An excerpt: Next month, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a 12-member subset of Congress that Congress created to make the hard fiscal choices Congress has failed to make, is expected to propose $1.2 trillion in cuts from projected spending during the next decade.…
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As if Henry Blodget’s friends haven’t done a good enough job of that after a decade of artificially low interest rates, rebate stimulus, deficit spending, bailouts, etc. Here’s Blodget’s tweet on this, which I read about at Bob Wenzel’s blog , and here’s his follow-up: “DEAR RON PAUL FANS: Yes, Your Candidate’s Plan Will Destroy The Economy.” If the federal government…
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Earlier today I asked for readers’ advice about the “primal” approach to diet and fitness, and the result was a comment thread filled with interesting information and advice.  (And that’s not to mention all the responses to the same question over on my Facebook page .)  I’m in…
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I’m interested in Mark Sisson and his new book ( The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation ), but I’m wondering about taking the plunge.  My reasons against it will sound absurdly trivial, I know, but I don’t want to eat sandwiches without bread, and heck, I like sugars.  I can’t imagine…
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I can do without the “America is the greatest nation in human history” stuff, which doesn’t sound like Ron Paul’s style at all, but here’s the kind of budget we’d be debating if our wise public servants actually wanted to address the debt and deficit problems.…
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