Economy

When Mammon Drowns

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What if the next great flood isn’t water?

What if it’s a collapse of confidence?

For generations we have been taught to trust retirement accounts, stock markets, debt-fueled growth, central banks, and an economic system so large that most people don’t understand how it actually works. We assume tomorrow will look like today because it always has. The people in Noah’s day thought the same thing. They were eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling, building, and planning for the future right up until the moment their world disappeared beneath the waves. If the modern god of Mammon were ever exposed as a false idol, the greatest losses might not be financial. They might be spiritual. Millions would discover that the thing they trusted to save them never could. The question isn’t whether markets rise or fall. The question is whether your faith rises and falls with them.

Washington’s Million Dollar Income Tax Deduction Was Designed To Be Deleted

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Washington's Million Dollar Income Tax Deduction Was Designed To Be Deleted

The greedy Democrats and Communists who own WA State want to confiscate 9.9% of income from EVERY earner, retiree and business, regardless their level of income. Their power madness has reached the “we will never, never, never cut spending so we must, must, must take more money from the earners” stage.

Living the Dream of the Neverlanding

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Most people spend their lives dreaming about freedom while signing another payment, another contract, another obligation. Then along comes Captain Steve and the Neverlanding—a homemade houseboat built from lumber, blue barrels, grit, and a stubborn refusal to accept that life must be lived according to someone else’s blueprint. Drifting across the Great Lakes with his dog and a floating front porch, Steve accidentally became a symbol of something modern society desperately misses: adventure, self-reliance, and the courage to untie the dock lines. The Neverlanding isn’t just a boat—it’s a reminder that sometimes the richest life isn’t found in what you own, but in what you’re willing to leave behind.

It’s Hard for Good Policy to Get Noticed in DC

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As I’m sure most of you have noticed? Our federal government is a titanic, monstrous mess.

In all of human history, there has almost certainly never been an entity this dysfunctional and disorganized.

And the fact we have allowed something this messed up – to get this huge? May be the most grievous error in human history.

Economic Development in South Dakota, Part 1

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Analysis from a constitutional conservative perspective Economic development has been a hot topic in South Dakota for years. At one extreme, there are those among the political class who push development on behalf of out-of-state interests constantly (and seemingly regardless of the impact on long-time residents). At the other end of the spectrum are those …

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The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Food—and the Chemical Trick Keeping Billions Alive

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We like to pretend food comes from virtue. Hard work, sunshine, maybe a red barn and a guy in overalls. Reality check: your dinner exists because of industrial chemistry, fossil fuels, and a process that forces atmospheric nitrogen to behave like it’s being interrogated in a back room. At the center of this quiet miracle—and quiet dependency—is the Haber-Bosch process. It doesn’t get headlines. It doesn’t trend. But it’s arguably one of the most important inventions in human history, because it broke the natural limits on how much food we can produce. Without it, the global population wouldn’t look anything like it does today.