Welcome, Citizens

Good evening, dear readers. This is the first post on a site we hope will prove useful (or at least cathartic) voicing concerns regarding political and social issues of the day from a perspective few in Washington are willing to embrace: economics.

My particular area of expertise is economics, though we are looking for other contributors with understanding of that field, as well as an understanding of constructionist politics. While I am not now going to subject you to a lengthy discourse of the economic status quo, in the future I hope to foster discussion of that very subject and how it will be affected by the decisions of politicians and captains of industry.

First, a little context:
1. I am a conservative. I identify with neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, as I feel that allegiance to any party has led to far more problems than solutions. With party loyalty one often overlooks glaring deficiencies in character or political record in candidates, selecting them purely on whether the parentheses following their names contains an R or a D.

2. I hold a degree in business administration from the California Maritime Academy, and it was there and in my time in the financial service industry, where I had the privilege of watching the financial system's problems come to a boiling point, that I was able to study economics from a perspective to which few have access. Still, the bulk of my knowledge has come from independent research. Economics as schools typically present it is largely Keynesian, and that same viewpoint is held by most of the people in Washington who, in my view, contributed just as much to the crystalline nature of the financial system as any banker. The school of thought I have come to respect the most is Austrian Economics. Von Mises, Rothbard, and the like seem to me to have had the best appreciation of what is viable in an economic model. That Paul Krugman lacks any respect for that philosophy only increases mine.

3. It is my firm belief that government and international corporations should be run financially by the same principles policing people on a personal level. To be specific: one must take in more than one puts out, otherwise there are consequences. On this blog I will cover what I believe to be basic, logical ideas behind finance and economics, and will examine what consequences always eventually befall those who refuse to acknowledge them.

Now that you know where I'm coming from, I'm looking forward to stimulating discussions. After all, physics may be what makes the earth go round, but economics makes the world go round.

We will be posting every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, unless something comes up that begs discussion. The first post will be on Monday, October 26. May the markets be with you.