Tools to Enlighten
Is a cashless society good? It may be faster to do everything by plastic and electronically. But there’a a huge risk in going down the cashless path. Erosion of liberty….A huge additional risk of a cashless society is that it further subjects everyone to the risk of total loss if our financial system is subject to a major and pervasive internet/computer hack….Who is benefiting from this policy? The betting here is that its a few monied oligarchs. Read More …
Capitalism versus Socialism and/or Communism. We’ve tried to keep opinion to a minimum and present factual information. It’s up to readers/viewers to draw their own conclusions. Read More …
The World Trade Organization was established to promote international trade and crucially, to provide a forum where trade disputes between nations could be peacefully resolved. Its organization and the rules that it implements were painstakingly negotiated over many years by hundreds of countries. Read More …
the Federal Reserve Bank’s federal funds interest rate policy. Velocity, the money multiplier, the all important interest rate on excess reserves and the ON RRP are all discussed Read More …
AUGUST 18, 2019 We have wanted to supplement our Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy (the Fed Interest Rates and GDP) videos for quite some time. Unfortunately, we’ve been pressed to handle other matters. Below Is generally where we are headed with that video. We are hastening to do this because Read More …
( Editor’s note: This blog post and/or video, first appeared on one of the “pages” appearing in the menu bar at the top of this website many months ago. We reprint/repost it here while we work on supplementing and updating our video on the Federal Reserve Bank, interest rates and monetary policy and because some Read More …
[Editor’s Note: The blog post below is based on a newspaper article written by David Dixon Lentz which originally appeared in the Ashland Herald Progress (which, unfortunately, has since gone out of business) in three parts in late 2015. It is about the very underappreciated Battle of the North Anna River fought just north of Read More …
Video about David Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage. Discussion lead by David Dixon Lentz Read More …
Investments, Picking Stocks and the Efficient Market Hypothesis. ( Editor’s note: This blog post and video, first appeared on one of the “pages” appearing in the menu bar at the top of this website many months ago. We reprint it here because some of our visitors do not realize that there is also substantive content Read More …
In the video below, however, we engage in an enlightening and more contemporary discussion about a very important and controversial and powerful body that most folks know little about, the World Trade Organization (the WTO) Read More …