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Greenspan’s Plan
In my reading this evening I came across Alan Greenspan’s excellent argument for putting our money into hard assets: In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General, Money and Business
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Owe No Man – The Discipline of Debt-Free Living
[This article is written by John Thompson. You can send your gracious comments, questions, and feedback directly to him using the contact information at the end of the article, or you can leave your comments here in the normal manner.] … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business
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Tax Reform
This coming October will mark the 92nd anniversary of the income tax in America. The original legislation signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 was 16 pages long (today it is about 6,400 pages long). This legislation imposed a 1% … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business
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The Ethics of Christian Agrarianism
Baptist Preacher Gary Fawley lays out some interesting thoughts in his article Christian Agrarianism and Rural Community. If you like Wendell Berry, you might find it interesting to read his interpretation of Berry’s message. Essayist, poet, novelist, lay theologian and … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General
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People Pay Money For GM Stock?
Standard and Poor’s rates their debt as “junk”, they lost $1,100,000,000 in the first quarter, they lost another $286,000,000 in the second quarter, and they withdrew their 2005 earnings and cash-flow forecast because they’re not sure how they can resolve … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business
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Fooling Ourselves
Mike Adams, aka The Health Ranger, says: We are fooling ourselves if we think that economic “prosperity” means owning stocks in a Big Pharma company that’s making a windfall because half the nation is chronically diseased, with another wave of … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General, Homeschooling, Money and Business
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Real Estate Prices – Back To The Agricultural Age?
Boy was I wrong about real estate! Thankfully the Wall Street Journal is around to correct errant backwater economists like myself. My error was in a reply to Herrick Kimball’s comment here about the potential for deflating real estate prices. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Money and Business, The Housing Bubble
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Debt-Free Housing
Good-quality, affordable housing is probably one of the most significant challenges to living a debt-free lifestyle. For some, this is so challenging that they discount the very possibility of living debt-free. In pondering the question for myself over the years, … Continue reading
Posted in Agrarianism, General, Money and Business
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Who Needs TV?
Who needs TV when you’ve got neighbors? While I was out working in the backyard the other day, my wife told me to look at the hedges, and there were two of the children nestled in the hedges watching our … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homeschooling
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Industrialism Kills
Good article in today’s LRC called Flouride Follies by Dr. Donald Miller on fluoridation, its definitely one to read and save for reference. Lots of good links and recommended reading. Although I’d known about the evils of fluoridation for years, … Continue reading
Posted in General
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