Comments on: Update II: The Commie Who Controls the Economy From the Grave https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4455 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:20:10 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4455 Oh, I forgot to mention, it will outperform FRB in everything but the short run as you would guess when the honest compete against the dishonest.

]]> By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4454 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:12:00 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4454 Ilana,
I just thought you should know that FRB’s replacement has been discovered. Both fiat and FRB are going down. In short, it is a 100% reserve equity-backed money model. Only an honest idiot could think such a thing possible; fortunately one had a lot of free time on his hands. This thing is wonderful beyond belief because it uses the stock market as the backing for appreciating monies that eliminate the boom/bust cycle in the stock market.

After 300 years and tens of millions killed FRB will be tossed on the scrap heap of history. And as is fitting, the Market himself is going to execute its tormentor. I know a poet like you will appreciate that.

]]> By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4433 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:28:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4433 Ilana – I do not wish to waste my time reading more works of a socialist fraud like Keynes… however, I was once forced in 11th grade to read another socialist blowhard “intellectual” named Thorstein Veblen. Then, a few years ago, I across one of the greatest essays about these “scientific socialist” blowhards by H. L. Mencken – this one in a Mencken CHRESTOMATHY – which truly takes apart this quack Veblen. Unfortunately the web link that I found,
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/hlm_veblen.html – is a little hard to navigate compared to the book itself – but worth 10 minutes of reading and laughter. // P.S. – I have such a fetish about intellectual attribution that I left a job and moved away over that issue.

[Great; I have the book, so will look it up. Thanks.–IM]

]]> By: Herman https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4430 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:58:05 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4430 Dear Madam, this is more a private information for you, but you are of course free to publish whatever you like: I’m sorry not to be able to provide internet links. I can only quote the only line in my booklet where Keynes is directly mentioned; it is’nt very much: “It is widely acknowledged in foreign countries that the current economic crisis con be abolished by credit expansion. Proof is e. g. such a renowned publication as the report of the Mac-Millian-Committee, which was strongly influenced by the excellent expert on money and credit, J. M. Keynes, and which postulated to raise the price level up to that of 1928”
Best regards, Herman

]]> By: Herman https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4423 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:45:59 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4423 Among the books I inherited from my father (he was a German and an economist),there is a booklet of about 80 pages entitled “Arbeitsbeschaffung durch produktive Kreditschöpfung” (“Boosting employment by productive credit creation”) which appeared in 1932, edited by the think tank of the Nazi Party. That was 5 years before Keynes’ “General Theory”; the author, one Dr. Heinrich Draeger, quotes only one of Keynes’ earlier publications: “Ein Traktat über Währungsreform” (A Treatise on Monetary Reform). The content of the booklet, as the title indicates, is purest Keynesianism “avant la lettre”. Which shows that the roots of Keynesianism may as well be Nazism as Fabianism.

[Important information—Keynes was approved by Nazi theorists; von Mises NOT, naturally. Can you provide a few Internet links?–IM]

]]> By: Barbara Grant https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4420 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:02:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4420 Keynes was also a member of the Bloomsbury Group, which included Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and other London intellectuals/artists of the time. Strachey with his “Eminent Victorians” satire and Woolf with her “stream of consciouness” prose were rebelling, in some way, against the culture of Victorian England that immediately preceded their generation. Given that Victorian England was highly productive due in large part to private enterprise, it’s not surprising that Keynes’ economic theories would lead nations in the opposite direction.

]]> By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4419 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:36:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4419 The Center is liberty’s greatest enemy, not for its radicalism, but for its palatability.

[Which center?]

]]> By: Joel https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4418 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:17:46 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4418 Richard Nixon: “We are all Keynesians now.”

I have an old Veritas Report newsletter written by Zygmund Dobbs, author of Keynes at Harvard which included this note:

“Was Nixon ignorant of the long range infiltration of our Government by Fabianism? We doubt it. In fact, while he was President we received bulk orders for our books, The Great Deceit and Keynes at Harvard from the White House. And one Senator personally brought The Great Deceit to Nixon’s attention and was told that the book was already among the presidential books that were read.”

(Mr. Dobbs had been one of Nixon’s researchers who helped gather evidence on Alger Hiss back in the late 40s.)

In Reagan: A Life in Letters, Keynes at Harvard is mentioned as being in Mr. Reagan’s library at his ranch. I suspect the book might have meant a bit more to Mr. Reagan (though probably not by much.)

Thanks Ilana, for nailing the root of problem yet again!

[Invaluable information; thank you, J.–IM]

]]> By: Gian Piero de Bellis https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4417 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:27:54 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4417 In “The History of the Fabian Society,” by Edward R. Pease (freely available on the Internet) the name of Keynes is never mentioned. [How convenient; takiya in action.–IM] The statement that he was a Fabian socialist needs some corroboration. He was in fact a member of the Liberal Party. Having said so, the Liberal Party in England introduced most of the measures that installed the State on the driving seat. The Labour Party (the so-called socialists) just continued what the Liberal Party had already started. In this case there is no need to refer to socialism in order to find statism. Moreover, so-called capitalists are, in most cases, the strongest promoters/advocates of statism and corporatism.
Gian Piero de Bellis

]]> By: EN https://barelyablog.com/the-commie-who-controls-the-economy-from-the-grave/comment-page-1/#comment-4416 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:47:21 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=2531#comment-4416 [Steal? How nice; attribution is always a must among decent people.–IM]

Original was meant as a joke. My apologies if it didn’t seem that way.

[I’m hypersensitive about this issue.–IM]

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