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Restaurant inspectors take up SWAT tactics in biggest Tennessee city
This report in Nashville indicates that even in a local economy, government inspectors are not averse to military tactics in routine visits to regulated businesses. Twelve armed-and-armored members of six agencies descend on a locally owned eatery. The raid stops the band; customers flee. The ganging up of government people is attributed to the need […]
Local economy avoids brittleness, interlocking credit monoliths in national sector
A confidence crisis in the bar, left, caused the 2008 meltdown. What about the bar at right? What’s that? (Graphic DanielAmerman.com) By David Tulis If you are like me, you value small steps toward greater financial independence. You are progressing in plans to start a small home-based business. You are less intimidated by shaky prospects […]
Piranha marketing pits chain stores against local economy shops
This flier in the Times Free Press newspaper offers a 110 percent price match to beat back local economy players who have lower prices. By David Tulis The eighth commandment (“Thou shalt not steal”) is framed as a negative. Like all God’s commandments it imposes positive duties, as well. It requires that we “endeavor, by […]
With sell-low, buy-high theory, city buys shares in gay economy
Jerry Mitchell, in a campaign photo, made a bold move this week to support homosexual unions as a city ordinance. By David Tulis Please indulge a speculation as to the price of shares in two economies. One is the gay economy, whose shares come with a premium today and whose valuations are sky high. The […]
If stealing country were a tort, getting it back might be ‘action in replevin’
Wendell O’Reilly, Chattanooga attorney The difficulty in strengthening local economy comes from the economic and political interests whose success is crowned by centralization. The government school. Federal welfare. Total surveillance. The usual suspects. By David Tuls Thanks to Uncle’s control of entire marketplaces it sometimes is inconceivable that Chattanoogans will ever be their own masters. […]
Paper ignores free market revival plan, keeps journalists in diapers
My days as a newspaper copy editor are over, but I refer to my fingertips, still, as ink stained. Libertarian powerhouse editorialist Drew Johnson was fired on accusations that a widely noted editorial bore an inappropriate headline that was changed outside of newsroom regulations. The Chattanooga Times Free Press head was, “Take this jobs plan […]
Localism undoes ‘E pluribus unum,’ giving federal eagle gentle heave-ho
The imperial eagle’s scroll says “E pluribus unum,” or “From many, one.” By David Tulis On the back of the F$1 bill is an engraving of an eagle, a busy bird. On one claw is a clutch of arrows, representing war. In the other, olive branches (for military stasis). In his beak is a ribbon […]
Genetic apocalypse? Monsanto ‘data’ pollutes wheat; a farmwife wonders
The protest May 22 of about 250 Chattanooga area people against the agricultural giant Monsanto came exactly a week before the U.S. department of agriculture announced what observers say is a potential agricultural and economic disaster involving the company. The USDA is launching an investigation after receiving notice from Oregon State University that gene-altered wheat […]
True signals? Hotels multiply here; Boy Scouts’ gay rule ‘contentious’
Hampton Inn is planning a hotel with 94 rooms amid a hotel room glut in Chattanooga. Chattanooga’s economy is being misled by the day’s credit boom into building hundreds of hotel rooms in a declining market. Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites and Westin Hotel Chattanooga are bringing 728 hotel rooms on line through next year, says […]