Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 152

The Economy in Crisis: How We Got Here and What’s Happening Now

This isn’t just a temporary slowdown—it’s a broad-based economic breakdown. Here’s how we got here and why things are getting worse.

1. Labor Market Breakdown

The labor market has deteriorated significantly, contradicting official narratives of economic strength. Key indicators signal a deep freeze, if not an outright contraction.

Declining Job Openings: Openings tumbled by over 400,000 in late 2024, falling to their lowest level since January 2021.Low Hiring Rates: Hiring remains subdued, wi...

Europe’s Female Leaders Want War

A friend just sent me a New York Post report from 2022 introducing Europe’s “tough women leaders taking on Vladimir Putin,” replete with this illustration.

Ursula von der Leyen is the EU Commission President, Annalena Baerbock is the German Foreign Minister, Sanna Marin is the former Finnish Prime Minister, now a “strategic advisor” of the Tony Blair Institute. Kaja Kallas is the former Estonian Prime Minister and now Vice President of the European Commission.

The trouble with such “tough women...

Convention of States: The False-hope Hucksters

There they go again. The latest missive from the Convention of States (COS) echo chamber reeks of recycled rhetoric and shallow sloganeering, wrapped in a false piety toward the Constitution they purport to defend but so plainly misunderstand. Their tired attacks on the John Birch Society — the last line of principled defense against the gutting of our constitutional republic — are not only dishonest, but profoundly dangerous.

Let us dispense with their clumsy propaganda and expose the COS schem...

Democrats Stand for Ukraine but Sit for America

Republicans hold only slim majorities in Congress, particularly in the House.

Midterm elections typically shift control to the party not in the White House. Democrats need only a few more House seats to hinder President Trump’s final two years in office and will seek to impeach him daily until he leaves in January 2029.

Trump’s first month in office has been like a wrecking ball, disastrous for the entrenched ruling class and administrative state. The unavoidable chaos resulting from dismantling...

Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed Covid Tyranny

Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a million were listed as dying from the virus.

“Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won’t Make Us ...

Gordon Hahn on Europe’s Role and a Possible Coup in Kiev

Two interesting thoughts from Gordon Hahn’s latest piece:

The World Order’s Restructuring Intensifies as the Ukrainian War Implodes the West and Kiev

One question the piece tackles is a split between the U.S. and Europe. The core question:

The international level of the Ukrainian conflict is shifting from a bilateral confrontation between the West and Russia to a trilateral confrontation involving Russia, the U.S., and a new European-Ukrainian axis, with each riven by divisions generated by the ...

Even More Assaults on Free Speech To Silence Criticism of Israel

Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have arrested a Columbia University graduate for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza last year.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is reportedly married to an American citizen and had had permanent residency in the US, but his green card has been revoked by the State Department as the Trump administration works to deport everyone they can possibly get away with deporting for ...

The French Despite Clear Warning Brought the Camp of the Saints to France

France is dying.  It is a piecemeal death. One business district at a time.  One neighborhood at a time. A restaurant, a business, a theater, a hotel here and there.  Each death so sad but survivable. But as the piecemeal deaths mount, they become an aggregate, and now France is dying.  See here.

Jean Raspail warned the French in clear language in 1973 that the open borders acceptance of immigrant-invaders meant the death of France.

Enoch Powell warned the British.  It proved to be impossible to...

Did COVID Nearly Start a Revolution?

Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021.  Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers.  Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”

No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms.  Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors...

Going Cold Turkey in Our Addiction Economy

We’re prone to addiction, and addiction is highly profitable. They know it, and we know it.

We inhabit an Addiction Economy. We all know the cure for addiction is to go Cold Turkey: drop the denial and delusion of control, and excise the source of the addiction from one’s life.

This is of course not easy; it’s agony on multiple fronts, for we’ve come to depend on the source of addiction for dopamine hits, pain management, and distraction from our troubles and travails.

Sources of addiction that ...