Doug Casey on speaking out and how H.L. Mencken avoided persecution during WWI and the Roosevelt years

If you believe in thinking for yourself, or if you believe in free minds and free markets, you’re in the minority.  You better be careful. 

H.L. Mencken, undoubtedly one of the greatest public intellectuals in American history and the best journalist in our history, is a cautionary example.  During World War I and throughout the Roosevelt years, he basically stopped writing or saying anything controversial because he might’ve been singled out and persecuted.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey on the Dangers of the Growing “Snitch Culture” in the US," International Man, March 10, 2021

Doug Casey on mask wearing and divisiveness

The masks everybody self-righteously wears have become the equivalent of Nazi armbands, or the red scarfs of the old Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers. 

They want people to unite against the enemy, namely people that protest against or don’t wear masks.  The non-PC have become the enemy in large parts of the US.  People in the rural heartland states don’t generally wear masks or take COVID nearly as seriously as the liberal elites on the coast do.  As a consequence, the virus is accentuating the cultural divide between the red people and the blue people.

~ Doug Casey, "Doug Casey on the Dangers of the Growing “Snitch Culture” in the US," International Man, March 10, 2021

Lao Tzu on scarcity

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

~ Lao Tzu

Robby Soave on anti-racism

Nonracism—the idea that skin color should be overlooked—has lost popularity among progressive activists, and anti-racism—the idea that skin color matters a great deal—is in vogue.

~ Robby Soave, "Why Dr. Seuss is Worth Defending," Reason.com, March 8, 2021

Kevin Duffy on how a progressive sees taxation

This is how a progressive sees taxation: 

1) Taxes are a benefit to the common good. 

2) Taxes are the price of freedom. 

3) The rich hire accountants to avoid paying their fair share. 

4) The rich have nearly all of the wealth (an unfair distribution). 

5) Those at the bottom pay all the taxes (even though the rich have all the money); very unfair. 

6) The government is constantly starved for "revenue" so those at the bottom suffer even more. 

Ok, admittedly, this is an exaggeration, but there is a lot of truth to this, don't you think?

~ Kevin Duffy, Facebook post, March 12, 2021

Paul Craig Roberts on the tragedy of American education

What we are dealing with is not only the brainwashing of white students as to the evil origin of their country and their inherited guilt, but also their inability to think rationally and to make an objective conclusion from evidence. This was once the purpose of education, but no more. Today students are taught that their emotions are what is true, and their emotions are manipulated by the lies that they are taught. 

This perversity of education spells the end of the United States. The kind of people American education is producing are not capable of scientific thinking. The kind of education Americans receive today cannot produce scientists or engineers. We have the emotive generation, people trained to be guided by emotion. 

The inability of American education to produce people capable of thought is already our reality. We see it in the huge number of work visas in which foreigners, largely from Asia, are brought into the US to do the jobs American educated youth cannot do.

~ Paul Craig Roberts, "What is a Fatal Dose of Fentanly?," LewRockwell.com, July 10, 2020

Ed Hyman sees a 5 year expansion due to economic stimulus (2021)

Massive, unprecedented stimulus is already in place and increasing!  It’s firing on all cylinders, ie, QE, rates, and fiscal.  So even though inflation and bond yields are moving up, equities are supported.  We believe we’re at the start of a new expansion that will last five years or more.

~ Ed Hyman, Evercore ISI's Weekly Economic Report, March 7, 2021