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One Hundred Years of Intrusions

February 16th, 2013
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Imagine a time when the government knew nothing about the money in your bank. It cared nothing about how much you made, where you made it, and what you did with it. You could take your earnings in gold, silver, paper, or anything else, and never filed… more »

Framing Platinum Coin Seigniorage: Part Six, More Political/Economic Objections

February 13th, 2013
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This series provides a framing document for Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS). In the five previous parts of the series, I pointed out that there are three classes of opponents of High Value Platinum Coin Seigniorage (HVPCS, $30 T and above). The first… more »

The Dangerous Collapse of Public Enterprise

February 11th, 2013
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by Dan Kervick, New Economic Perspectivesp> When economists talk about the role of government in economic recovery, they often focus on the question of whether or not we need more economic stimulus.  They ask whether the government should temporaril… more »

What Does The Trillion Dollar Coin Do?

December 13th, 2012
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The Trillion Dollar Coin proposal for solving the debt ceiling problem is again experiencing a blogosphere explosion this past week. The precipitating factor may be that people are starting to believe that the Republicans will come to a “fiscal cliff”… more »

de Tocqueville in China

November 27th, 2012
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We hear that China's new "conservative" leaders have all read Alexis de Tocqueville's 1856 book, The Old Regime and the Revolution, and are recommending it to their friends.  Western pundits opine that China's government feels that maintaining legitimacy… more »

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