Category: Local economy

Give a hand to Thrive 2055 for ‘regional vision’ over free markets

The rippling water staircase has, for now, dried up in downtown Chattanooga. (Photo Chattanooga Visitors Bureau) By David Tulis The marketplace is that great mass of men and women who interact in commerce for the benefit of their customers and in their own self-interest. Its power to produce wealth rests in the fact that it […]

Baylor helps reflate economy with state-sponsored $13 million in red ink

Baylor School in Chattanooga is beneficiary of a F$13 million bond issue by the state. (Photo Baylor website) By David Tulis A government body’s creation of F$13 million in bonds for an exclusive private school in Chattanooga is a picture of commercial government writ rich. Last week a board of a state corporate subdivision known […]

The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart

Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]

Retail giants care little for customer, want only his money

A newspaper flier for a major chain store in Chattanooga. By Charles Hugh Smith Will we ever tire of navigating the multiple layers of intermediaries between the customer and the provider, while corporate profits soar to unprecedented heights? If we had to summarize what’s wrong with Corporate America and the entire U.S. economy, we can […]

How private money, inflation entail chicanery, fraud, coming wreck

Justice Stephen J. Field, a dissenter of paper money disaster By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the wreckage caused by ballooning and unpayable debt is based on a ideas that take the form […]

Orphaned by fire, Lockhart children face providence of God

Randall and Candy Lockhart with, from left, Haley, Mark and Rebecca. (Photo David Carroll at Chattanoogaradiotv.com) By David Tulis It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and a fire races through a small house at 220 Houser St. in north Chattanooga. Three children spill into the yard. But inside, a mother and father are unable to escape […]

Samuel warns us: Ask for king, get taxes, conscription, national economy

An Israelite king, Jehu, bows before Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian terror king, in 841 B.C., paying tribute. Slavery and kings were the lot of a the ungodly children of Israel. (Image Wikipedia) By David Tulis The promise of Christianity is that if men submit to the counsels of a loving God they and their kingdoms […]

Freedom for whites, blacks entails liberty for Mexican immigrants

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream and Hot News Talk Radio 1240 Opposed to a free market in labor and free movement of peoples, progressives in the Republican party have little choice but to impose a draconian personal identification law that goes beyond the driver’s license. What is the Christian and free market perspective on […]