Thomas E. Brewton's Past Articles

67 articles

Why the Steepening Yield Curve?

published: June 02, 2009

Investors are beginning to look ahead, anticipating surging inflation. A reader signing himself AmendmentX posted a comment with a link to Federal Reserve puzzled by yield curve steepening. A...

Where's David Axelrod?

published: May 27, 2009

If real substance is to emerge from the vacuity of the President's policies, it presumably will come from Mr. Axelrod, his behind-the- scenes campaign manager and PR crafter. It was widely note...

Hillary Clinton, Racist Fellow-Traveler

published: April 28, 2009

Secretary of State Clinton's praise of Margaret Sanger was an endorsement for the doctrine that Hitler used to justify the Holocaust. One of the most horrendous doctrines to emerge from Charles ...

What a New New Deal Means For You

published: April 27, 2009

Socialism, the motivating ideology of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, is the opposite of the political state envisioned in the Bill of Rights. Socialism requires that your individual liberties be s...

Ideological Civil War

published: April 24, 2009

Democrat/Socialists started the ideological warfare in Congress with their slanderous attacks that blocked the 1987 Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert Bork. Now they are upping the ante ...

A Jackboot at Home, an Olive Branch Abroad

published: April 21, 2009

President Obama seems intent upon cramming stifling socialist programs down our throats domestically, while he relies upon pretty- word diplomacy with foreign nations that have vowed to destroy ...

Government as the Agent of Prosperity

published: March 30, 2009

A reader asserts that, in the chicken-or-egg-first debate, prosperity is not possible without organization of the economy by government. David Airth, a reader who frequently posts thought-provok...

The Constitution Be Damned

published: March 25, 2009

Tocqueville forewarned us about the tyranny of majorities that by nature impose ill-considered policies trampling upon individual liberties, liberties which the Bill of Rights was enacted to pr...

China Puts Us on Notice

published: March 23, 2009

China's premier publicly expressed concern that the Obama administration's present and prospective surges of deficit financing are impairing the creditworthiness of the massive amounts of Treas...

We Know What's Best For You

published: March 04, 2009

Two current examples of Democrat-Socialist dirigisme are "green" energy and nationalized healthcare. During the presidential campaign primaries, Hillary Clinton proposed to institute...

Stimulus Disincentives

published: March 01, 2009

Bob Utterback writes a regular column called Outlook. It appears in the Farm Journal, the largest national circulation publication focusing upon family-owned farms. Mr. Utterback travels cont...

The Limitations of Econometric Computer Models

published: February 23, 2009

Computer models were the tools employed to inflate the subprime mortgage balloon that precipitated collapse of our financial markets. And the same sorts of inherently faulty computer models ar...

The Long and Short of It

published: February 20, 2009

Asked about long-term inflationary effects of government deficit spending that he recommended to combat the Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes's flippant dismissal was, "In the long...

A Simple, Inescapable Fact

published: February 06, 2009

Corruption can be reduced only by reducing the size of the Federal government. Much is being written about unsavory political influence exercised by the army of Washington lobbyists, who act a...

Questionable Judgment

published: February 02, 2009

The OECD Secretary-general seems not to understand the first and foremost responsibility of banks. The Wall Street Journal carries the following brief interview note: Angel Gurria, secretary-...

Why Government Is The Problem

published: January 26, 2009

As Friedrich Hayek noted (A Free-Market Monetary System, government monopoly of the right to issue currency is the ultimate source of our economic miseries. President Reagan, in his first inaugu...

Social Justice As Foreign Policy

published: January 26, 2009

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly believe that the key to world peace is an international welfare state to equalize wealth distribution worldwide. Both the Pres...

A Fading Dream

published: January 18, 2009

The much lamented fading of the American dream of a better future results from the continuous, corrosive effect of policies initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. Democrat/Soc...

Inquisition or Scientific Investigation

published: January 08, 2009

Is it in the spirit of scientific research to ostracize and to punish anyone who brings new and contradictory evidence to the table? The Spanish Inquisition was not an effort to discover the tru...

A Liberal Glimpses the Truth, Albeit Dimly

published: December 28, 2008

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert denounces spending borrowed money, apparently unaware that he is stepping on the party line. Mr. Herbert is about as far left in his liberal-progressive id...

Ayers and Dohrn are Liars

published: December 24, 2008

Everything, from people within the Weatherman Underground, to Bill Ayers's own words, proves his mendacity. Doug Welsh on his Twitter site posted a link to Larry Grathwohl's reply to Ayers. M...

The New Deal Would Have Worked, If...

published: December 15, 2008

Liberal-progressive-socialists again eagerly anticipate returning to the disastrously failed economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt. Apparently religious faith in socialism outweighs rational...

Generous With Other People's Money

published: December 02, 2008

Liberal-progressives presume that they can do no wrong, so long as they take other people's money for the benefit of the secular and socialistic welfare state. iticorp's Robert Rubin is gettin...

The Auto Bailout

published: November 10, 2008

Socialism is characterized by ignoring the free marketplace and empowering intellectual planners to control the economy with a cocoon of regulations and directives. In Europe (and today in Chi...

Pursuing the Common Good

published: November 06, 2008

R. R. Reno explores the moral dimensions of capitalism. History demonstrates conclusively that free-market capitalism increases everyone's standard of living far more and far faster than any...