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Author Archives: Joseph
Nixon and the Gold Standard
In 1944 an agreement was reached at Bretton Woods that established the US Dollar as the reserve currency for the world. The dollar was used to back the other currencies of the world. The value of other currencies throughout the … Continue reading
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Tagged bretton woods, dollar, gold standard, inflation, richard nixon, righteousness
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Taxation by Inflation
Inflation is a hidden and intentionally deceptive form of taxation. Governments love to be off the gold standard and use fiat currencies that allow them to inflate without controls (especially when all the other governments are also on fiat currencies). … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, fed, great depression, housing bubble, inflation, monetary inflation, taxes, theft
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Providence and Principle
In this election as in past elections many people of principle get into disagreements about whether it is right to vote for the “lesser of two evil” choices for an office like the President. Many Christians will say things like … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, chuck baldwin, conscience, constitution party, election 2008, providence
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Holding Failures Accountable
Joe Biden wants to take the pensions of failed corporate executives. The idea is that since their companies failed they should be held accountable by government because we don’t believe in a free market (probably because we’ve never seen one). … Continue reading
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Tagged alan greenspan, ben bernanke, counterfeiting, joe biden, john mccain, retirment, socialism
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Socializing Your Retirement More
Democrats in the house are now talking about socializing 401(k) plans. The plan that is being put forward would stop tax breaks on your 401(k) and would begin “redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts … Continue reading
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Tagged 401k, great depression, intervention, pessimillenialism, regulation, social security, socialism
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Ron Paul vs. Alan Greenspan
The important fact to remember when considering the current economic crisis is to remember that people like Ron Paul, who hold to austrian economics, predicted it. They pointed out years ago that what Greenspan was doing would cause such a … Continue reading
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Tagged alan greenspan, austrian economics, economics, federal reserve, great depression, ron paul
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The Need for Reformation
I just finished reading Douglas Wilson’s new book, A Primer on Worship and Reformation: Recovering the High Church Puritan. It is an excellent little book touching on some of the many errors of the Church today. He seeks to promote … Continue reading
He Killed and Took Possession
In Acts 5:29 Peter says, “We must obey God rather than men.” This specific instance occurs when the high priest and the “senate of the people of Israel” arrested the apostles after they had been commanded not to teach in … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, accountability, governemnt, new testament, old testament
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Joe the Plumber (Outlaw)
Lew Rockwell has written a new article, Joe the Outlaw. He points out that in the current presidential campaign: one interesting point has emerged: the archetype chosen to represent mainstream America turns out to be a thorough-going outlaw in the … Continue reading
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Tagged election 2008, founders, free market, intervention, lew rockwell, revolution
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the Great Lands 