Tag Archives: economic collapse

Economic collapse? Or more Chicken Little with intent?

Posted on April 18, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

More hyperbolic fearmongering? Or is there something for real here? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a government-run, government-supporting, micro-management sort of institution. It exists to empower government and has always done so. Whatever reports they issue have to be … Continue reading →

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A bridge to…

Posted on March 26, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

As any number of libertarian writers have pointed out today, the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early this morning by a Hyundai-built, massive container ship destroyed not just a key (pun intended) icon of Maryland, but … Continue reading →

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Will California meet its goal of powering 60 percent of its electricity with renewable energy resources by 2030?

Posted on March 17, 2024 by TPOL Nathan

This question came up on a web site recently, and we here at TPOL thought it worth sharing one of our staff’s responses. Yes, we know that once again we are bashing the People’s Republic of California and the idiots … Continue reading →

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Too many jobs? Too few people?

Posted on May 5, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

This came across our screen desktop from a correspondent, and seems to match what was broadcast on various shows on 2 May 2023. We cleaned it up some, but otherwise verbatim: ‘You’re telling me we’ve got too many jobs in … Continue reading →

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Population? Who is speaking the truth?

Posted on April 12, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

The UN has been drumming the alarm about world population for about as long as it has been around. As recently as November 2022, an official UN publication stated: The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 … Continue reading →

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Economy still sinking?

Posted on October 16, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Got a future? Got a way to survive? To prosper? Really? Seems as though we are being told that “the end is near.” America is doomed. The world is doomed. Are the doomsayers right?

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“Not worth a dollar”

Posted on October 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Supposedly, annual inflation, August 2021 to August 2022, was a “mere” 8.3% here in the States. Don’t believe it. Ignoring sales prices, food prices in most places have sometimes doubled in the last year: for example, at a Safeway in … Continue reading →

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“Too much government”

Posted on September 29, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Listening to part of the Glenn Beck show on Thursday the 29th, we were amazed to hear a guest refer multiple times to what he saw as the reason for the current crash and burn of the stock market, the … Continue reading →

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The China question – and the world ahead

Posted on August 5, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

The recent (so far “successful”) visit of Her Imperial Highness the Worshipful Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, third in succession to His Magnamity and Omnipotent Mightness Joseph R Biden, to … Continue reading →

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Our fragile communications and economy

Posted on July 23, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Over at Agora Financial, a libertarian investment and publishing firm based in Baltimore, their editors and writers have been sounding alarms about the signs of the FedGov (and the EU and others) pushing a “cashless society.” One in which plastic … Continue reading →

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