Out With the Old AND With the New
October 26, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Through most of school, many of us were taught American history portrayed through a slightly over-romanticized lens. Born out of the bloody battle fields of the New World, was the Great Experiment: a noble new country won on the backs of the common man under the […]
A State of Control
October 19, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP There are quite a few articles on our site that discuss the burdens placed on individuals, businesses, and full industries by the government. Back when we discussed Edward Snowden’s revelations and the various US spy programs, it became all too clear that these programs were not […]
Government: Over Promises, Under Delivers
October 12, 2015 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Ever hear, “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse to violate it,” or some derivative of that? While societal laws are often an arbitrary moving target, the laws of economics are about as clear as the laws of physics. They can only be bent for […]
The “People’s QE”
October 5, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher While everyone is squawking over gun control, monetary policies are coming to a head… on a global scale. Indeed while the global markets lost $10 Trillion in value over the last three months, we have basic idiots eagerly welcoming all things Pumpkin Spice back to the store shelves […]
War is the Health of the State
September 23, 2015 By: Claudio Grass In an essay titled “The State”, Randolph Bourne, an American writer, made a distinction between a country and a state that I find crucial. He described one’s country as “an inescapable group into which we are born”. In his view, a country is “a concept of peace, tolerance, of […]
Outdated Notions Will Lead to Collapse
September 22, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Tides are shifting, priorities are reconfiguring, values are changing, and the elites in power are woefully behind the times. Bobby published an article a while back “Go Paperless as a Digital Nomad” discussing how the landscape has changed since the days of his father. Suits, ties, cubicles, and […]
Top Heavy Economy
September 14, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher A shocking statistic crossed my feed the other day: Government employees outnumber manufacturing employees by nearly 2 to 1. The first question might naturally be: Has manufacturing EVER outnumbered government employees? And the answer would be, yes. Up to 1989, in fact, manufacturing employment was higher than that […]
Tightening Fists Around Sand
September 7, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher There are a few things happening right now, and the balance is delicate to say the least. First, you have China’s ailing manufacturing market and volatile yuan. This, naturally affects her neighbors as well. Second, you have Iranian sanctions set to be lifted by spring of 2016. Third, […]
System D (or Shadow) Economy
August 31, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher The primary candidates on both sides are amping up the rhetoric against “illegalities” and “safety”, while trying to temper it with some feigned reverence for civil liberties and individual rights. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have it out for illegal immigrants. Trump thinks immigrants should all be here […]
The Ever-Changing Healthcare Problem
August 24, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher It’s pretty safe to say that Obamacare is a train wreck. Not that I ever held out hope that it would amount to anything other than that, but I certainly didn’t want it to cause the amount of misery and destruction that it has. It’s like being tied […]
