Support Franklin for president: Be a man who uses F$100 bills

The F$100 bill is under fire as aiding violations of federal law, though many honest people use them. If you use cash, you support local economy and help establish your manliness and virility. Yes, using cash is more manly than using a credit card. In light of the federal PR war on the F$100 bill, […]

The coming meltdown & how to survive it

10 minutes in, 10 minutes out. I sketch the coming reckoning the marketplace will impose on debt-ridden nation-states and their consumption-oriented economies. Key: Families, local investment, thrift, thinking of “the other.” (Hot News Talk Radio) Tweet Pin It

Activist grower unites city dwellers, 9 Mennonite farmers in area

Farmer Steve Bontekoe tells about his Harvest Box program in which city folks subscribe to him and his nine Mennonite farmers and receive every week a bulging container of fresh vegetables grown and harvested in a sustainable way. (AM 1240 Hot News Talk Radio). Tweet Pin It

Tulis talk explores ‘bright prospect’ amid national calamity

The Chattanooga chapter of the Freedoms Foundation celebrates constitutional liberties for which men froze to death at the encampment at Valley Forge, here inspected by Gen. George Washington. (Painting by Dunsmore) By David Tulis David Tulis is editor of Nooganomics.com. The American people face a day of reckoning that will require of them continual exercise […]

Hitchcock gives ‘direct care’ relief for national economy constipation

Dr. Rick Hitchcock chats with a senior citizen in his new “direct care” medical practice in Hixson. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Dr. Rick Hitchcock and other Chattanooga doctors are living out the local economy response to a bad case of constipation in the national economy. With ObamaCare effectively nationalizing the medical insurance industry, […]

Great default set to push back single greatest threat to liberty

Branch Technology of Chattanooga is developing powerful 3D printers that can print houses. Decentralization and technology are wrecking the progressive dream of the total state shielded by administrative law. (Photo Branch Technologies) By David Tulis Our city and county will lose less — and perhaps even prosper — in the coming great default if people […]

Ending tax on gold, silver coin sales would aid financial liberty in Tennessee

On the pretense that gold and silver are not money, Tennessee state government taxes transactions of gold and silver. (Photo 10th Amendment Center) By Mike Maharrey A Tennessee bill would exempt gold and silver bullion from sales tax, taking a small step toward nullifying the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Introduced by Sen. Frank Niceley, […]

Basis of rebuilding local economy: Local agriculture

Franklin Sanders of Highpoint, Tenn., calls for the power of local economy to fill the gaps that will be left in the progressive collapse of national government and a souring national economy. 47 minutes. Tweet Pin It

Wealth-building ideas counter state-induced dependency

Planners in Hamilton County use a democratic gloss to wiggle forward with their ideas about cities and their residents. By John Anthony In spite of President Obama’s slick candor and a sympathetic media, the devices he uses to create his centrally “governed” society are vulnerable. Like an underdeveloped nation torn between wealthy landowners and the […]