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Brics snooze-fest kicks off this week

Another snooze-fest kicks off this week as the Brics get together to discuss who-knows-what-exactly. If SA politicians are serious about joining the Brics, will it also be serious about reducing the amount it steals from the private sector so it can take on Bric competitors? If not, local industry is in for some tough times. read more…

Posted by JGalt, on April 13th, 2011 | Comments are closed

Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire

Back by poplular demand is this brilliant lecture delivered by Joseph Peden in 1984. Fittingly the year of the speech is the title of George Orwell’s great book on the overbearing state, and Peden shows in this unique analysis that the collapse of the Roman Empire was the inevitable result of a government that simply grew too large and too coercive for its own good. The speech holds every bit as true today as it did in 1984, and indeed as it would have back in the ancient days of mighty Rome. It should serve as a warning to all that centralised coersion and control ALWAYS ends in ruin. read more…

Posted by freeman, on April 6th, 2011 | Comments are closed

CPA

Good luck to those who don’t have the time, money or legal intellect to digest this document. read more…

Posted by JGalt, on April 4th, 2011 | Comments are closed

Bob Wenzel explained why US unemployment would drop below 9%

Back in Dec 2010 already. It’s all in the money printing. Stop money printing, and the economy will fall out of bed, literally. . read more…

Posted by JGalt, on April 1st, 2011 | Comments are closed

In the news today: SARS admits slow growth

SARS admits weak economy, and Capitec pumps out the fractional bank credit, further inflating SA’s very own subprime borrower market, and setting us up for 0% interest rates in the future. read more…

Posted by JGalt, on March 30th, 2011 | Comments are closed

The role of government: provider or protector?

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. read more…

Posted by freeman, on March 29th, 2011 | Comments are closed

Government is trading FX with your tax money

Govt has spent R10k of your money in past 12 months to make a terrible investment: going long foreign currencies. read more…

Posted by JGalt, on March 28th, 2011 | Comments are closed

McOpoly

How to trademark your way out of a brown paper bag. read more…

Posted by freeman, on March 16th, 2011 | Comments are closed

This might go down as one of the great Senate speeches

The absurdity of the US budget-cutting debate. read more…

Posted by freeman, on March 10th, 2011 | Comments are closed

The banksters tighten their grip on monetary policy

Through Ben Broadbent at the BoE and Mario Draghi at the ECB. read more…

Posted by JGalt, on March 8th, 2011 | Comments are closed

Obama’s budget cuts in pennies

The silliness of the $100m budget cut proposal. read more…

Posted by freeman, on February 24th, 2011 | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Dream Speech 2011

What Zuma should say tonight. read more…

Posted by freeman, on February 10th, 2011 | Comments are closed
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