Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 177

The Smart Money Wants Gold

On Friday’s episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter picks up where he last left off– President Trump’s wild trade policy. He touches on everything from tariff threats and the Fed’s inability to combat stagflation, to the dubious nature of job data and the absurdity of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund—all while warning investors about the dangers of missing out on a gold rally.

Peter starts by summarizing recent trade negotiations and tariff reprieves, point out that all of this uncertainty was coun...

Statism Was Alive and Well in Ian Freeman’s Appellate Hearing

Last Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts, held oral arguments in the case of Ian Freeman, the libertarian Bitcoin seller who the feds targeted back in 2019. In December 2022, Freeman was convicted by a jury in a U.S. District Court in New Hampshire of four types of offenses: (1) failing to register with the federal government as a Bitcoin seller and conspiring to not register with the feds as a Bitcoin seller; (2) income-tax evasion; (3) ...

Democrats and Presstitutes Panicked That Musk Is Revealing Their Grift

Elon Musk’s revelations of the extraordinary corruption in federal departments have made it clear for me why so many Democrat Representatives and Senators without business backgrounds became multi-millionaires and how the presstitute media abandoned by the public remains on its feet.  Their source of wealth and funding is the US budget, which also explains why the budget is so totally out of control.  The political establishment and the media are living on the federal budget, while American taxp...

RIP, DEI: The End of Our Captivity

Yes, a captivity. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (hereafter, DEI) can properly be called a captivity.  Americans were held hostage by this alien ideology born in the claustrophobic classrooms of the Marxist credo for decades. Its noose has finally loosened.

So enveloping was this agitprop that the commanding heights of academe and conventional intelligentsia cast aside outdated things like free speech and launched a campaign of cancel culture, the flip side of Nazi book burning. For years, ave...

In Stunningly Bright Colors

The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and the threat of more war, a rampaging climate crisis, and an accelerating nuclear arms race (and that’s just for starters) — all occurring in a climate of massive mis- and disinformation that makes it ever harder to build a consensus toward solutions to the multiple problems we face.

Words can’t fully express our current predicament. We need other too...

A United America Is Democrats’ Undoing

Of all the things I loathe about the Democrat party, its celebration of victimhood takes the cake.  As is true of all political parties infected with virulent Marxism, it does not seek to help those truly in need.  It does the opposite.  It seeks out people who might never have seen themselves as victims and convinces them otherwise.  It is a party whose growth in membership is directly proportional to Democrats’ capacity to convert Americans into victims.

Once a person understands Democrats’ pa...

DOGE and the Disinfectant of Sunshine

This has been a most remarkable week in American history. Donald Trump and his DOGE exposed a mere sliver of the waste, fraud, and corruption that permeates the criminal bureaucracy that our horrific leaders have established. The people are finally finding out, to a very small degree, just how and where their tax dollars are spent.

As you all may be sick of hearing, I came from the Left. Classical liberalism was a beautiful thing. Liberals back then were all for “Sunshine laws,” which would open...

Charles A. Lindbergh and the America First Movement

Charles Lindbergh as the First Global Celebrity Hero

Although I’d never had much interest in American history when I was young, the name of Charles A. Lindbergh was certainly known to me, with the story of that early pioneering aviator always rating at least a few sentences in my introductory textbooks.

I’d vaguely known that Lindbergh had been the first to cross the Atlantic on a solo flight from New York City to Paris, becoming world famous for that daring exploit. A few years later, his story...

Happy Worst President’s Day

A 64-year-old woman with deep family roots in Alabama recently said to me that she was taught in Alabama public school that Abraham Lincoln was “the best president ever.”  That would be a good example of the consequences of what the New England Yankee conquerors labeled “reconstruction.”  The truth is that Lincoln was by far the worst president in American history.  He was certainly the most “reviled” (by the people of the North during his lifetime), as Larry Tagg documented in his book, The Unp...

The Musk-eteers Reveal You’ve Been Living in a Simulated Reality

Over the past two weeks Elon Musk and his cadre of young computer geniuses have cracked the code. Like Toto pulling the curtain on the Wizard of Oz, they’ve pulled back the cover on government secrecy. They’ve shown how oceans of tax revenue have flowed through Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), charitable-sounding foundations, the UN, and others to fund terrorists, disrupters like BLM, and reporters to promote Democrats and censor the opposition, most often to enrich Democrat politicians and ...