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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023
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The tremendous merit of gold is, if we want to put it that way, a negative one: It is not a managed paper money that can ruin everyone who is legally forced to accept it or who puts his confidence in it. The technical criticisms of the gold standard become utterly trivial when compared with this single merit.
– Henry Hazlitt
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 15, 2023
Thank You, Americans, for Our Tax-Funded Largess ([link removed])
I want to thank all of you taxpayers out there for providing me with the benefits of gigantic amounts of welfare-warfare-state largess that is being heaped on those of us living here in Virginia. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the states surrounding Washington, D.C., had the nation’s biggest decline in unemployment benefits. In Virginia, “total new applications for unemployment ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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