Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The stimulus programs have sent trillions of dollars of aid to families who are unemployed because of the government lockdown. Considering the current scale of the riots and unrest, what would happen if just one of the programs ended?

Juneteenth

On June 19, 1865 Major General Gordon Granger announced to the slaves of Texas that they were free per Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

$100 Rich

If that man offered you his car for $100, do you have enough silver or gold to afford it today?

$1 was a coin of 24 grams of silver.

$20 was a coin of 30 grams of gold.

Why Mississippi Should Change the Flag

Mississippi should change the flag to represent all peoples living in the state. A new flag should represent freedom for everyone. Mississippi has the potential to be the cultural and economic center of the USA. Let the flag and the laws represent that. 

13.3% Unemployed

“If the workers who were recorded as employed but absent from work due to ‘other reasons’ (over and above the number absent for other reasons in a typical May) had been classified as unemployed on temporary layoff, the overall unemployment rate would have been about 3 percentage points higher than reported…“ -BLS

Organized Crime

"What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor?”

Health and Wealth

Too bad printing money doesn’t increase our health or our wealth because the USA have replaced the Ottoman Empire and the Soviet Union as the sick man of Europe.

Inflation to Wear Away the Debt

Three employees of the Fed are writing a working paper to see what would happen if the Federal Reserve inflated away the US debt.


“We study the implications of a coordinated fiscal and monetary strategy aimed at creating a controlled rise of inflation to wear away a targeted fraction of debt.”