Recent content by TaxSlave

Any TV ads playing in Florida?

Yes! There will be almost enough money for this ad collected today alone. It needs to be a SHOCKING ad that will get people's attention. No more 'Me-Too' Also-Ran ads! The timing is right. The dollar is on the ropes. The stock market is on the ropes. The Fed is panic-cutting rates. They...

YES! Before it's too late!

YES! We need hard hitting ads. Me-too ads will turn out to be Also-Ran ads. Probably too late, though.

From Michigan From a tireless organizer in Michigan, What more could we say? Get it together.

fsk, By the way, I like your blog (since you keep asking). "What would he do?" It's a long shot, but he could use the bully pulpit and encourage civil disobedience, and urge Americans to sit on juries and not convict. It worked to end prohibition! Just a thought. --97T--

In other words, with competing forms of currency, if one becomes rare, people will switch to others, and those holding the rare form will have every incentive to spend it after its relative value goes up.

I didn't advocate for a gold-only or bimetallism-only standard. Either creates an artificial standard of value by fiat. If the government plays its role by setting standards for weights and measures, but doesn't use legal tender laws to make other forms of currency illegal, then it will be...

I'll try to answer your question, from an amateur's view: A gold-only standard would be the same as a fiat money standard, except with a limitation on inflation. Which one is more dastardly? A banking system hoarding gold (and putting itself out of business in the process if it takes it all...

Consider the tactic used by Tucker Carlson to get the 'Brothel Owner" thing published worldwide, so that papers that never mention Ron Paul can put a one paragraph dismissal into print, convincing a good percentage of their readers to ignore any campaign literature they get. The attack was weak...

Tucker Carlson is the piece of crap. He showed up at the news conference with the brothel owner and a couple of prostitutes, to the total surprise of everyone there, including, especially, the campaign. And consequently, we get worldwide snippets of "Brothel Owner Endorses Ron Paul". A nice...