By Sean Dempsey, 3/19/25 This is a response to Max Baecker’s terribly misguided recent piece in Forbes. The Real Cause of Rising Commodity Prices: Inflation, Not a Bubble The surge in commodity prices today is not the result of a speculative bubble but rather a direct consequence of inflation caused by a massive expansion of […]
Ben Franklin, November 1766 I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed […]
By Sean Dempsey, 7/15/23 ‘The lives of the benevolent are perhaps the most besieged.’ The Archbishop of Cheshire whispered madly into the darkness as he made his way between foul-smelling passageways and across dirty streets. Hot tears fell from his eyes and he beat his fists against stone walls as he trudged — almost stumbled […]
