Category Archives: Government Debt
Playing with Fire
The great default is rapidly approaching. Time is running out. Like a runaway freight train…there’s no stopping it. To start, the U.S. government is broke. The only thing keeping the lights on in Washington is $1 trillion per year of … Continue reading
Dependent Upon A Bankrupt System
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the mid-19th century, observed that “Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” Perhaps Emerson meant that common sense is rather uncommon. What’s more, if common sense was uncommon in Emerson’s … Continue reading
Property Confiscation Is Coming
Outright property confiscation by governments is something that’s ardently disparaged here at the Economic Prism. There’s no justification we can rationalize for state sponsored theft. This includes penalizing those who are young and healthy with a disproportionate burden of a … Continue reading
How American Government’s Supposed to Work
It appears things are finally reversing course. After years of expanding, the bull market in government may have finally hit an inflection point. This is great news. For a reduction in the size of government compared to the overall economy … Continue reading
