For the past year I have been writing full time under the tag, “local economy and free markets in Chattanooga and beyond.” In a culture that doesn’t rest, I …
By David Tulis Today I delivered a 10-year-old boy to Dixies Does farm in Dayton, Tenn., so the boy could help Bill Ensinger and his wife, Becky, work on …
A principle of local economy is nonintervention. Nonintervention makes its first claim on behalf of the free market by opposing taxation and the corralling of businesspeople in the enterprise …
The idea of local economy is pleasantly disorienting. It allows unexpected intellectual and spiritual connections that are fruity. Here I point not to a fault, but a virtue. The …
By Franklin Sanders In his book, Stealth of Nations, Robert Neuwirth mentions that the French call the underground economy “System D,” from a French word for people who take …
By David Tulis On the back of the F$1 bill is an engraving of an eagle, a busy bird. On one claw is a clutch of arrows, representing war. …
Video streaming by Ustream We have a bit of news about the effort to have women in the military. It’s funny how if you listen to news or read …
How We Define Poverty from The Chalmers Center on Vimeo. Gang culture in the government ghetto has two causes. One is the artificiality of city culture operating on a …