Tag Archives: economics

The Ugly Liberal

James J. O'Meara

Iceland by torchlight: Icelanders riot for debt relief -- and win!

1,816 words

If anyone still doubts the existence of a Liberal Mindset, or that it is not just a harmless tic but so, well, wrong as to position its bearer 180 degrees off from reality Read more …

Published: February 20, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, debt, Iceland, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, reprints, the gold standard, the Jewish question | Comments closed

Benjamin Franklin on Demography & Whiteness

Andrew Hamilton

4,463 words

A short paper on demography by Benjamin Franklin consisting of 24 numbered paragraphs, “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, Etc.” (1751), provides interesting insight into the thoughts of one of the most astute and discerning of the Founding Fathers. I will focus primarily upon Franklin’s demographic insights and perceptions of race and whiteness, though he also discussed economics. Read more …

Published: February 10, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, Benjamin Franklin, demographics, immigration, North American New Right, originals, population, protectionism, race, white racial consciousness | Comments closed

Thoughts on Debt Repudiation

Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1781–1853, "Solon, Legislator of Athens"

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French translation here

In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. If the debt exceeded the debtor’s total assets, he and his family were reduced to slavery. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Aristotle, articles, banking, debt, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, Jubilee, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Solon, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

De l’argent pour rien

3,183 words

English original here

Chacun sait qu’il faut travailler pour avoir de l’argent. Et si quelqu’un vous donne simplement de l’argent, cela ne peut être que par l’expropriation du travail de quelqu’un d’autre. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, in French, in translation, money, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit, socialism | Comments closed

Money for Nothing

2,912 words

French translation here

Everybody knows you need to work for your money. And if somebody just gives you money, that can only be by the expropriation of somebody else’s labor. Read more …

Published: January 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, money, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit, socialism, Third Way economics | Comments closed

O Fim da Globalização

1,833 words

English original here

O mercado é inerentemente uma instituição global. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, George Soros, globalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, in Portuguese, in translation, North American New Right, protectionism, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left | Comments closed

The End of Globalization

Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

1,873 words

Translations: French, Portuguese

The market is an inherently global institution. The market is non-racist, non-nationalist, and non-religious, for as long as decisions are made solely in monetary terms, the race, nationality, and religion of buyers and sellers simply do not matter. Often, they are completely unknown.

I know the ethnic identity of the owners of the Armenian rug shop and the Chinese restaurant down the street. But what is the race, ethnicity, or nationality of the Coca-Cola Corporation? Read more …

Published: December 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, George Soros, globalism, globalization, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, North American New Right, originals, populism, protectionism, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, Third Way economics | Comments closed

What is Money For?

Ezra Pound

4,741 words

We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception.

I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, C. H. Douglas, Ezra Pound, fascism, inflation, money, National Socialism, reprints, Silvio Gessel, Social Credit, Third Way economics, Thomas Jefferson, usury | Comments closed

Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization & Decay

Anthony M. Ludovici

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Brooks Adams’ work on The Law of Civilization and Decay[1] is a reprint of the original American edition published in 1896. It was the first of a series of similar treatises and started the line followed, among others, by Spengler. Briefly its thesis is this — “As the attack in war masters the defence, and the combative instinct becomes unnecessary to the preservation of life, the economic supersedes the martial mind, being superior in bread-winning. Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Antony Ludovici, book reviews, Brooks Adams, decadence, miscegenation, North American New Right, philosophy of history, race-mixing, reprints, The Law of Civilization and Decay | Comments closed

Brooks Adams on the Romans

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams, 1848–1927

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Brooks Adams was an American historian and critic of capitalism from a classical republican/agrarian/populist point of view.

Brooks Adams was from an immensely accomplished family. He was a great-grandson of President John Adams, a grandson of President John Quincy Adams, a son of diplomat Charles Francis Adams, and the brother of Henry Adams, Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Brooks Adams, cheap labor, classical republicanism, deflation, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, money, North American New Right, originals, populism, Rome, the gold standard, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

The Romans

Brooks Adams

12,616 words

Chapter 1 of The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Second Edition
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896 Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged agrarianism, ancient Rome, Brooks Adams, cheap labor, classical republicanism, deflation, money, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Rome, the gold standard, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism

Robert Locke

8,060 words

No-one wants to talk about Japan these days. The conventional wisdom is that the bloom went off Japan’s economic rose around 1990 and that the utter superiority of neoliberal capitalism was vindicated by the strong performance of the American economy during the 1990s. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, capitalism, fascism, Japan, mercantilism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, reprints, Robert Locke, Third Way economics | Comments closed

On Usury

Hilaire Belloc

5,284 words

Usury does not mean high interest. It means any interest, however low, demanded for an unproductive loan. It is not only immoral but it is ultimately destructive of society. It has only been the rule of our commerce to take usury since the breakup of Europe following on the Reformation. Usury will destroy our society, but meanwhile there is no escape from it. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, capitalism, distributism, Hillaire Belloc, interest, North American New Right, reprints, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Robert Stark Interviews Greg Johnson on Occupy Wall Street & Third Way Economics

News Item

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Robert Stark interviews Counter-Currents/North American New Right editor Greg Johnson on Occupy Wall Street and Third Way economic alternatives. Read more …

Published: October 25, 2011 | Posted in news item, North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents, Greg Johnson, interviews, Johnson on economics, news item, North American New Right, Occupy Wall Street, podcasts, Robert Stark, Third Way economics | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Matching Grant Update
Mapping the Third Way

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On Monday, I recorded an interview with Robert Stark of the Voice of Reason Network. We discussed Occupy Wall Street and the rich tradition of nationalistic “Third Way” economic thinking, which has never been more relevant.

Beyond capitalism versus socialism is a whole range of options, from National Socialism (which could just as well be called National Capitalism) to Corporatism, Social Credit, Populism, and Distributism. Read more …

Published: October 18, 2011 | Posted in news item, North American New Right | Also tagged Counter-Currents, fundraiser, Greg Johnson, Johnson on economics, news item, North American New Right, Robert Stark, Third Way economics | Comments closed

Breaking the Bondage of Interest:
A Right Answer to Usury, Part 4

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Part 4 of 4

National Socialist Germany

Propaganda rather than scholarship has dominated studies on National Socialist Germany. Hence, the manner by which certain socio-economic achievements were attained is buried amidst histories that focus on war, the Holocaust, and racial theories. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. J. P. Taylor, Adolf Hitler, articles, banking, Bolton interest, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, debt crisis, Dietrich Eckhart, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Japan, Kerry Bolton, monetary policy, National Socialism, New Zealand, North American New Right, originals, Social Credit, the Third Reich, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Breaking the Bondage of Interest:
A Right Answer to Usury, Part 3

Hieronymous Bosch, "Death and the Miser," detail

2,448 words

Part 3 of 4

States that Broke the Bondage of Interest

Any efforts to advocate alternatives to banking that might extricate nations from the grip of the money-changers are dismissed as “funny money” Read more …

Published: August 12, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, banking, Bolton interest, C. H. Douglas, Canada, capitalism, debt crisis, Ezra Pound, Guernsey, Kerry Bolton, monetary policy, New Zealand, North American New Right, on Pound, originals, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Breaking the Bondage of Interest:
A Right Answer to Usury, Part 2

C. H. Douglas, founder of Social Credit

3,859 words

The Impetus from Catholic Social Doctrine

A significant impetus for financial and economic reconstruction was Catholic social doctrine. In many states such as Dollfuss’ Austria,[1] Salazar’s Portugal,[2] Franquist Spain, Vichy France, and as far away as Vargas’ Brazil, Papal Encyclicals provided the doctrinal foundations. The main feature of these “new states” was corporatist social and economic organization, replacing party parliaments with chambers representing all professions. Read more …

Published: August 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. D. Fairburn, A. R. Orage, articles, banking, Benito Mussolini, Bolton interest, British Union of Fascists, C. H. Douglas, capitalism, Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholic Social Teaching, debt crisis, distributism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, G. K. Chesteron, Hillaire Belloc, Italy, Kerry Bolton, Louis Even, monetary policy, North American New Right, on Pound, originals, Sir Oswald Mosley, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury | Comments closed

Breaking the Bondage of Interest:
A Right Answer to Usury, Part 1