Category: economics

Washington State can’t fill trooper vacancies

Article by Cal Nogov on Dec. 3, 2015   Headline from Seattle Times: Progress!  Yeah! The government enlists their propaganda agent in an attempt to butter up the typical state loving nitwits for more money. The article starts out glorifying…

A Warning About The Entitlement Mentality

Article by Ben Doolin on Nov. 29, 2015   By now… odds are you’ve seen the videos of the carnage.  If not, here’s an example: While some may find the absurdity humorous… stupid people in large groups can be VERY…

The pin that pricks the bubble, revealed?

Article by Colonel Nogov on Nov. 10, 2015   About two weeks ago JP Morgan’s chief global strategist David Kelly released a paper “Avoiding the stagnation equilibrium” in which he states, “Sadly, it is probably more likely that we get…

The Minimum Wage

Article by Ben Doolin on Nov. 5, 2015   It’s the perfect example for explaining Statism… for power and wealth… politicians create problems for us.  Then, in an attempt to ‘fix’ the problem… create even bigger problems. The Minimum Wage,…

Free Market Currency

Article by Ben Doolin on Oct. 15, 2015   My general position on ‘advocacy’… is to advocate ‘against’… which is almost universally against the violation of person or property. With the respect for person and property, almost any voluntary form…

Tiger conservation groups doing more harm than good

Article by Colonel Nogov on Oct. 10, 2015   There are only approximately 3,200 tigers left in the wild today according to conservation groups.  100 years ago there were 100,000. The dramatic decrease is due to a number of factors. …

Grading the Virginia Council on Economic Education

Annotation by Colonel Nogov on Sept. 15, 2015   Here is the Virginia Council on Economic Education’s taxes poster.  I’m going to evaluate it and give it a grade based on its overall truthfulness.   Nothing more than the standard…

Interesting facts about murder and suicide

Article by Colonel Nogov on Sept. 7, 2015   In 2013 (the latest figures) there was 14,196(source: FBI) murders in the U.S. The same year there was 41,149 suicides in the U.S. Right from the start, you are 3 times…

The reason a stateless society will have less crime not more

Article by Colonel Nogov on Aug. 20, 2015   First let’s define crime.  There are two and only two crimes.  Theft and violence.  Violence includes all subcategories such as rape, murder, assault, etc. and credible threats thereof.  Theft includes all…