Two years before the Great War erupted, Ludwig von Mises published "The Theory of Money and Credit" and handed you the blueprint for understanding the monetary chaos that would follow.
Central banks create the boom-bust cycles that make wars financially possible. The Austrian Business Cycle Theory he laid out in 1912 predicted exactly what happened when European governments abandoned gold convertibility in 1914.
When you expand credit artificially below the natural market rate, you distort the structure of production. Entrepreneurs receive false signals about available savings and start long-term projects that the real economy cannot sustain. Credit expansion creates malinvestment on a massive scale. The war economy of 1914-1918 became the perfect laboratory for his theory: governments inflated their currencies to fund unprecedented military spending while price controls masked the underlying monetary destruction.
The German mark lost 99% of its value between 1914 and 1923. The British pound fell from $4.86 to $3.40 against the dollar during the war years. French politicians doubled their money supply while rationing bread to civilians. Every prediction Mises made about credit expansion played out in real time as European central banks chose inflation over fiscal responsibility.
Easy money always ends in economic crisis. The Federal Reserve, established just one year after his book appeared, has repeated this same cycle of boom and bust for over a century. Central bankers today follow the same playbook that financed the trenches of Verdun and Passchendaele.
Sound money advocates have been watching this monetary suicide for decades. The only question remaining is whether you will learn from Mises before the next inevitable crack-up boom destroys what remains of your purchasing power.
I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.
Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?
Spread the word fellow patriots!
Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics."
Farmer: "I've read the brochures."
Activist: "Best of both worlds."
Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it."
Activist: "But the trials show it works."
Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen."
Activist: "It's still better than nothing."
Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break."
Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb."
Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm."
Activist: "You're being negative."
Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."
The government shouldn’t be able to search your texts, emails, or calls without a warrant. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening under FISA. I’m fighting to end unconstitutional backdoor surveillance and restore the Fourth Amendment.
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1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.
Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.
This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables every other piece of the digital control grid.
If we lose this fight, we lose everything.
Automobile kill-switches are coming soon to car dealerships near you.
I teamed up w/ Scott Perry & Chip Roy to defund this Orwellian mandate, but too many colleagues (Republican & Democrat) voted against us, so the federal mandate for every new car after 2026 is still in place.
The 57 Republicans who voted No on the amendment to STOP the government from controlling your car.
Mark E. Amodei (NV)
Don Bacon (NE)
Stephanie Bice (OK)
Gus Bilirakis (FL)
Mike Bost (IL)
Ken Calvert (CA)
John R. Carter (TX)
Tom Cole (OK)
Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
Neal Dunn (FL)
Chuck Edwards (NC)
Jake Ellzey (TX)
Randy Feenstra (IA)
Randy Fine (FL)
Brian Fitzpatrick (PA)
Chuck Fleischmann (TN)
Vince Fong (CA)
Andrew Garbarino (NY)
Carlos A. Gimenez (FL)
French Hill (AR)
Jeff Hurd (CO)
Brian Jack (GA)
John James (MI)
David Joyce (OH)
Thomas Kean Jr. (NJ)
Mike Kelly (PA)
Jen Kiggans (VA)
Kevin Kiley (CA)
Young Kim (CA)
Kimberlyn King-Hinds (MP – Northern Mariana Islands)
Darin LaHood (IL)
Nick LaLota (NY)
Mike Lawler (NY)
Frank Lucas (OK)
Nicole Malliotakis (NY)
Celeste Maloy (UT)
Brian Mast (FL)
Dan Meuser (PA)
Max Miller (OH)
Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA)
Tim Moore (NC)
Blake Moore (UT)
James Moylan (GU – Guam)
Greg Murphy (NC)
Dan Newhouse (WA)
Zach Nunn (IA)
Hal Rogers (KY)
Maria Elvira Salazar (FL)
Mike Simpson (ID)
Elise Stefanik (NY)
Glenn Thompson (PA)
Mike Turner (OH)
David Valadao (CA)
Derrick Van Orden (WI)
Rob Wittman (VA)
Steve Womack (AR)
Ryan Zinke (MT)
The Fourth Amendment isn't optional. If the government wants to read your messages, search your data, or spy on you, they need a warrant. Period.
My Fourth Amendment Restoration and Protection Act ends warrantless surveillance of Americans.
@JamesLucasIT I loved learning this when I read much of what Christopher shared posthumously in the various releases. Gives it even more of an air of wonder!
I've introduced HR 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, with @RepBoebert.
It requires a probable cause warrant before the federal government can search your private data — even if that data is held by a third party.
Warrantless searches are unconstitutional.
People ask me why I'm so passionate about sheep.
Here's why.
A sheep wakes up on a hillside nothing else will live on. 32-degree slopes. Acidic soil. Wind off the Atlantic. Rain in quantities most European crops would consider insulting. She walks out, eats grass nobody asked her to grow, and turns it into meat, milk, wool, lanolin, and the maintained landscape beneath her feet.
She requires no pesticides. No irrigation. No imported feed. No lab. No patent.
She takes the sun, the rain, the soil, and the specific botanical composition of a particular upland, and produces the leanest, most nutritionally complete meat in the British food supply. Every gram of lamb contains complete protein, zinc, iron, B12, selenium, and the conjugated linoleic acid your metabolism actually asked for.
She also produces, as a side effect, the landscape the tourists photograph. The wildflowers the campaigners claim to care about. The birdlife the charities fundraise on. The stone walls the poets write about. The curlew, the skylark, the golden plover, the red grouse, the hen harrier. None of it exists without her.
And we have spent the last fifty years being told this animal is wrecking the countryside.
The audacity.
I'll take my chances with the creature that has been shaping these hills for ten thousand years over the pea protein isolate that was patented in 2017.
The fact that companies who were forced to pay Trump's tariffs (taxes) are now going to be refunded with American tax dollars (the main source of revenue any government has) is a perfect example of "privatizing the profits" and "socializing the losses". While the people pay higher costs passed on to them from companies paying tariffs, the people will not see a refund for their extra costs.
The corporations and the state will benefit no matter which way the wind blows and the people always suffer.
When will people realize that the government - regardless of party - does not give a fuck about you or your family?