Tag Archives: Money

“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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Politics 2022 – Why governments want inflation

Posted on September 23, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

On Wednesday, as expected and as we were warned dozens if not hundreds of times, the Fed raised interest rates. While we here at TPOL don’t pretend to understand the reasoning – or even why the Fed should have any … Continue reading →

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“Biden bucks” and liberty’s loss

Posted on September 1, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Our beloved leader-in-chief, dear, dear Uncle Joe, has decided and announced he is forgiving $10,000 or $20,000 (I admit to being confused which) of student loan debt for each individual borrower. I guess it depends on the particular type of … Continue reading →

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Fake money

Posted on August 29, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Not the stuff in the picture (courtesy the folks at Consilience LLC and Addison Wiggins) – that’s play money. No, we are talking about the product of the world’s (and history’s) biggest counterfeiter: the FedGov itself. Well, technically, the Federal … Continue reading →

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Government evils: Inflation

Posted on August 4, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

What a couple of years! Ouch. Even though prices are (slowly) dropping. Even the Rally in the Black Hills is showing signs of a drop in attendance and not just because it isn’t a zero- or five-year. Five-dollar Diesel and … Continue reading →

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Our booming economy – take our poll now!

Posted on April 20, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

(Warning – it is a fake poll, but tell us here at The Price of Liberty anyway!) (Shadow Statistics claim that the REAL rate (as once measured) is three times this amount right now.) Who is to blame for galloping … Continue reading →

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End of the petrodollar? Return of the gold standard?

Posted on April 15, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Many lovers of liberty – anarchists and even minarchists, have long called for a return to a gold standard. Completely gone since Tricky Dick killed it in 1973 on an American and worldwide basis, most people have assumed it would … Continue reading →

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What if DC stopped giving foreign aid?

Posted on October 29, 2021 by TPOL Nathan

We are told that last year, thanks to COVID, the most foreign aid ever in world history flowed from “rich nations” to “poor nations.” Something like $150 billion US according to some sources: others say it was as high as … Continue reading →

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Mind Your Business – We Are One

Posted on December 14, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton The following pictures are of the very first coin authorized by the Continental Congress, in 1776.  It is called the Fugio coin.  (The Continental Congress was known then as the Congress of the Confederation, and officially “the … Continue reading →

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Bitcoin – tool for liberty or just another tool for tyranny?

Posted on July 9, 2017 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton MIT just published a story about Communist China’s central bank testing a digital currency to use instead of (in competition with) Bitcoin and all the rest. “Speeches and research papers from officials at the People’s Bank of … Continue reading →

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