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Everybody's Problem

CS Lewis considered Pride the worst of the deadly sins, because it was the source and stimulus of all the others. Among government institutions, the same can be said of the Federal Reserve.

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Jul 31, 2025
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Huntsville, AL

July 31, 2025

We’ve noted the tendency of government busybodies to make, magnify, or invent messes… and then “solve” those problems by making them worse.

In doing so, the do-gooders enhance their status, inflate their finances, and divert attention from more serious shenanigans happening off-stage. Today we retract the curtain, and shine a l…

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