Tag: Henry Wallace
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Exactly 100 years ago
Adam Kuznia, a Minnesota farmer, has started writing on Substack. He’s carrying on a clever campaign to get a proper Agriculture subject category on Substack, so people who want to know about farming or write about farming can find it easily. Henry Wallace, father and son, fought the same battle on a larger scale to…
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Checking an idea
For a long time I followed the standard economist line that price controls are always bad. I’ve applied this to interest rates, where it unquestionably works. But in some areas it’s clear that price controls are needed to block the destruction by Wall Street monsters. Henry Wallace made a strong case for price controls, perhaps…
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Instead of messaging…
Continuing from previous item on persuasion. I’m talking to the Democrat party now. You don’t need to persuade or message better. You don’t need to find a Blair or Clinton “third way”. The “third way” is exactly why you’re losing now. You only need to COPY your own best president. COPY the only president who…
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IOOF history
After spending some time at the Odd Fellows retirement home in Eureka Lake, Polistra decided to seek out a lodge. She found a typical one in La Cygne** near the southeast corner of the state. Like most lodges it was in a downtown storefront. The building looks like it originally housed a bank. A grocery…
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You ain’t the muster, mister.
For many years commentators of various stripes have been telling rulers what they MUST do. It’s a perfect waste of words. You’re not the muster, so you can’t tell aristocrats what they MUST do. Aristocrats know who the muster is and what the muster wants, and automatically obey without explicit commands. Bezos and Soros are…
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Important question
In this interview David Sirota makes plenty of sense about the failures of the elite class that led to the Trump victory. Toward the end Krystal asked a question that seemed marginal to me. After she answered it, I can see that it’s pretty much the whole story. Why were the Repooflicans OPEN to takeover…
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Henry Wallace is smiling
Alexandra Fasulo has been starting up a small farm, and reports frequently on Substack about problems and blessings. She finds the USDA is a huge blessing, ready to provide all sorts of material assistance and information to new and old farmers. Henry Wallace would be proud. He built the USDA into a massive servant of…
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Mutual is NOT dead.
While researching IOOF for Eureka Lake I realized that the IOOF is NOT dead yet. It hasn’t devolved into a drinking club or sold out to commercial insurance firms like most other societies. It still runs modern retirement homes in at least three states, and has active lodges and new members in many cities. Trinity…
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More basic sales rules
Speaking of physical vs virtual…. I randomly noticed a substack thread of Dem campaigners. They’re tired and discouraged because nobody will listen. They’re mainly worried that Trump will implement Project 2025 which is a world-ending apocalypse in their minds. Phone banks are simply useless, but door-to-door CAN bring results if you’re clearly offering something that…
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It’s just Keynes.
Thomas Hoenig, the only central banker who STEADILY called for a return to real business and honest economics, has given a speech where he describes the problem and prescribes the solution. PRECISELY CORRECT ON BOTH ENDS. = = = = = START HOENIG: The question is, can we reverse these trends? Of course we can.…
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Good diagnosis, bad fix
Seen at Reddit: = = = = = START QUOTE: I’m tired of boomers telling Gen Z and millennials to “suck it up” when we say that a salary of $60k or less shouldn’t trap us in a mediocre lifestyle, sharing apartments, skipping dining out, avoiding social outings, or never taking vacations. No, these things…
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Just for the record
Just for the record, though “votes” are irrelevant, I “voted” today. Picked Harris for president, without much hesitation or doubt. Wrote in Semi Bird for governor. Skipped the offices that I don’t know or care about. “Voted” for some referenda against the Carbon Cult, which have no chance of winning. I described the reasons for…
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Better name
Dams are failing in Tennessee. This is a straightforward result of spending all our money on war and destruction and NONE AT ALL on repairing or building. Year after year congress passes trillion-dollar appropriations for “infrastructure” but NONE of that money actually goes toward building or repairing. Most of it ends up in the pockets…
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We’re supposed to waste our emotions
As usual we have dozens of overdoses every day, some fatal. There are two responses. Dark humor and caring. Dark humor is winning, as more and more people realize that caring is a fraud. Media and rulers want us to CARE about everything so they can feed our caring with solutions that make things worse.…
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Real capitalism works.
While “journalism” and academia and politics continue to destroy their own credibility, big corporations are returning to grounded sanity FAST. Here’s a lengthy list of corporations that have abandoned the Gaian religion. It includes most sectors, from high tech to petroleum to clothing. Microsoft and Google, formerly leaders of the religion, have decided that profit…
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