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Essays and Other Writing by the Keeper
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Essays About Money, Taxes, and Corporations

Gold Enough
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Most of the problems in the economy would be solved if the economy was based on a gold standard.
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Interest-Bearing Transactions
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I've long believed that interest-bearing transactions ruin an economy.  However, the economists have enshrined interest-bearing transactions as being almost sacred.
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Liability, Ltd.:  Corpus Corporatum or Corpus Delicti?
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I spent many years trying to discover a remedy for the misbehavior of corporations.  One time I even invoked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission against the General Electric Company.  That created a lot of job security for everybody except me.  Eventually, I learned the answer to the problem.  In principle, it's very simple.  Here it is.
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Money
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When I was a child, my father taught me the definition of money.  During seventeen years of formal education, including a b.s. in nuclear engineering, I never encountered that information again.  Now, I've discovered that Alan Greenspan agrees with me, or at least he did in the past.  You can read his comments on the subject in his article Gold and Economic Freedom.
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Quid Pro Something
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In general, you can't get more value out of a transaction than you put into it.
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Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief:  A Satirical Essay
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In this amusing essay I proposed a fundamental rationale that explains everything, almost, maybe.
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Serial Taxation
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When you consider that all funds are taxed at least once per transaction, it's amazing that anybody has any funds at all.
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Shadow Taxes
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I call it Shadow Taxation.  That means that the tax doesn't stand alone and isn't even called a tax.  It falls upon people as a result of something else that's enacted (so we're told) for a completely different reason.  However, the prominent results are control and revenue.
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The Solmon Scenario
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Don't be surprised if you wake up one morning to discover that the value of your entire investment portfolio has fallen, overnight, to zero.
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They Can Fool Too Many of the People Too Much of the Time
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I intended, when I began this essay, to prove that fractional reserve banking increases the amount of cash in circulation.  Early in the essay, I proved the opposite.  I also discovered that fractional reserve banking doesn't really exist and would necessarily destroy itself if it did exist.  Beyond that, I found the existing system to be a sinister deception.  Inflation is only one of its evils.  The thing I least expected to discover but which ought to have been the most obvious from the very beginning is that none of it would be possible without the willing cooperation of the people.

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Essays and Other Writing by the Keeper
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