capitalism

Patrick Deneen Asks A Great Question: “What Is An American Conservative?”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There is an essay at The American Conservative Magazine website. [mocking] “Mike, you were hard on The American Conservative Magazine yesterday.” Yeah, well, I was just being honest. I don’t ask for jingoism from anyone else, so I don’t expect that anyone expects they’re going to get jingoism or Homerism from yours truly. In any event, The American Conservative Magazine’s Patrick J. Deneen posts […]

October 11, 2013 11

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David Stockman’s “Sundown In America”

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Back to David Stockman, there are a couple more stats from the “Sundown in America” essay that he wrote. You can find it in today’s Pile of Prep. If you’re not already convinced, after I read you the rollover of the debt from the first hour, Stockman isn’t finished with his rundown. I’m skipping here. This thing is 18 pages long if printed. I’m […]

October 8, 2013 21

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Why Capitalism Is NOT a Substitute For republicanism

Mandeville, LA - On today's show I mention this wonderful post of a speech Dr. Russel Kirk gave in 1988. After reading this piece I was moved to take the task of promoting this work because it says everything about modern conservatism (which is a misnomer now see here) and why it is doomed to fail with reverting to "small is beautiful conservation." Thanks to Winston Elliot III and The […]

September 2, 2013 10

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Increase In Community Can Lead To A Decrease In Government

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Angelo Codevilla had written about how the elites, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, pretty much all go to the same schools, live in or near the same cities, attend the same parties, go to the same functions. Most of these functions and events we’re describing here and talking about are not attended by people like us, people that might go to a Tea Party […]

May 13, 2013 21

Daily Clip

Monopoly Is Not Much Fun When You’re A Property On The Board

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – How does all this play out? Ladies and gentlemen, it plays out horrifically because it cannot continue. The only reason it continues now is because people fear the government. They fear what’s going to happen to them if they don’t pay their taxes. They fear what’s going to happen to them if they don’t march in lockstep as they’re being told to march in […]

April 2, 2013 16

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Capitalism is NOT What Conservatives Think It Is

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - This is an Inigo Montoya moment. It does not mean what you think it does. What you mean to say is free enterprise, that’s what you mean to say. You do not mean to say capitalism. As Thomas Fleming points out at Chronicles Magazine, there is a reason for that. This story is posted in its entirety in today’s Pile of Prep. Here’s what […]

November 28, 2012 8

Pile Of Prep

The Student Loan Bubble Begins Its Supernova Fiscal Explosion

Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of Founding Father goodness and all the student loan bubble bursting stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "Those experts can do it better than can the little platoons of leaders living within each locality who are surely unaware, simply unprepared, unenlightened, and unequipped to deal with the unique challenges that face their […]

November 28, 2012 11

Liberty

David Stockman Speech-The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism

The End of Sound Money and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism Monday, March 14, 2011 by David Stockman Mandeville, LA - The text of this speech is excerpted from The 2011 Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, given on March 12 at the Austrian Scholar's Conference in Auburn, AL -The original text and audio versions are here The triumph of crony capitalism occurred on October 3rd, 2008. The event was the enactment of […]

October 17, 2012 3

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Roepke: Property Ownership Most Important in Capitalism

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s another great story at The Imaginative Conservative website about Wilhelm Roepke, the great Austrian economist and the kind of economics we ought to be talking about. We’re having this big, vainglorious discussion about the merits of Republican central economic planning versus the merits of Democrat central economic planning. They’re both central economic planners. As Governor Romney exhibited at VMI, yes, we’ll spread free […]

October 10, 2012 8