Shortly after the 2009 right-wing coup, the pirates in charge of the new Honduran government immediately set about selling off parts of the country in order to enrich themselves. One of their ideas was (ZEDE) Zone for Employment and Economic Development.
Lifted from an old Harper's magazine:
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
Faced with Trump's populist seizure of the Republican Party, establishment conservatives and libertarians are trying to redefine republicanism to exclude anything other than market capitalism.
I'm a politics junkie and a scifi junkie. So, when two books, Infomocracy (book 1) and Null States (book 2), that were touted as merging those two genres came out, I bought the books. But, after reading them, I was repulsed by their world government, libertarian, Identity Politics take on the near future.
Cross-posted from Real Economics.
I suspect that most people do not understand bitcoin and cryptocurrencies because they also do not understand how money is "created." The reality that money can be created out of nothing is so ludicrously simple that most people simply cannot believe it. John Kenneth Galbraith observed that "The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
I think it is important to tie together a number of threads joe shikspack included in his
An open thread dedicated to discussing books, movies, and tv shows we love. And occasionally some politics.
I thought we'd get into something a little meatier today. It's been a long time since I talked about a book.
This is a handy guide for those of you who encounter libertarians on the Internet. Refashion as you please.
