President Biden does not want student loan payments to start. The easiest way is to make it an understaffed, complicated mess. The Complicated Mess to Restart Student Loan Payments Is On Purpose
Month: September 2023
Apologetic Sermon Illustration #88: Finance department hires consultant to advise on hiring consultants
GO TO PART 87 Point: Sometimes when I hear those who are hardened nonbelievers determine what they think should be the criteria of evidences for God and Christianity it just doesn’t sound right. There’s no neutrality; see Apologetics Session 2:… Read More ›
Marx, Faraday and the Spectral Objectivity of Value (CU 2023 talk)
What did Marx mean by the “spectral objectivity of value”? Why did he mention the Victorian spiritual practice of summoning spirits into tables in the first paragraph of his famous chapter “On the fetishism of commodities”? And what has Michael… Read More ›
Bad Economics (Is There Another Kind Any More?)
I was reading the “news” yesterday morning (mostly opinions) and I ran across this: The age-old economic doctrine of “comparative advantage” assumes that more trade is good for all nations because each trading partner specializes in what it does best…. Read More ›
Fragment on Historicism and Scientism in Straussian Philosophy
Philosophy is an intellectual exercise in the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, and truth. When Philosophies become political, they yield Worldviews that can potentially inform Ideologies, which in turn can provide the means by which to govern the State. History and… Read More ›
Fragment on Straussian Philosophy in the American Right
Throughout my graduate education at university, I kept hearing that the German philosopher Leo Strauss has been significantly influential on the “American Right” since the 20th century. I have known that Straussian philosophy played a huge role in modeling Jeffersonian… Read More ›
Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet — and the recovery key — and therefore $38.9 million. It is now in bankruptcy. I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good… Read More ›
Zero Hour by Duty and Honor
Good news, Gio from Beautiful Monsters decided to publish that short story I sent him late last month. After writing Treatises devoted to the Work-Standard for the past two years, the only thing to do now is for me to… Read More ›
The Crypto Code cryptocurrency automation tool
In the rapidly evolving world of digital currency, where change seems to be the only constant, the Crypto Code emerges as a game-changer. This cryptocurrency automation tool has been designed with an innovative approach to help users identify the most… Read More ›
Money and Cryptocurrencies – Why they are both “made-up”
The debt ceiling issue is a uniquely American challenge, although it speaks volumes about a problem all nations share, the management of their national debt and their currency. The US challenge is actually a simple problem arising out of the… Read More ›
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