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 …
This morning at Panera Posse my friend and I discuss place. I am not sure how the conversation arises from our ruminations over coffee and bagels at a familiar …
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. …
As a journalist interested in local economy and free markets in Chattanooga and beyond, I have come to see not just the strengths in local economy, but its many …
Government spying in the national economy is a barometer how slightly the “good people” in Washington esteem us commoners. The news accounts about the National Security Agency’s obtaining “a …