The worst read today is "Swaminomics" - where this veteran journalist praises "backward Bihar" for fingerprinting and taking other biometric information of the people, for making "smart cards."
Actually, the Census underway is also taking fingerprints and a host of other information, including caste.
What Swami does not see is that these are steps towards making India a Police State. (We are already quite a Police State.)
My advice to all the citizenry is - DO NOT COOPERATE WITH THE CENSUS.
Just give them the total number of people in the house - and nothing more.
Do Not Give The Total Chacha State Any More Information - for this will be used against you.
So what is the best read of this Sunday?
I suggest an article titled "Should the Quantity of Money be Increased?" by Ludwig von Mises and Bettina Bien Greaves. This article is excerpted from lecture notes Ms Greaves took during a Mises seminar. A collection of these seminar notes is also available - and I intend to get a copy. It is an excellent thing to have Mises "talking" to you.
[Incidentally, you can hear Mises live thanks to the Mises Institute. Here is Mises' lecture to the Mont Pelerin Society in 1958, titled "Liberty and Property." Well worth hearing.]
This contribution from Bettina Bien Greaves to the debate over money and inflation should be widely read. It is interesting that the editor of Mint, Niranjan Rajadhakshya, in his latest column, talks of the "politics of currencies." This "politics," of course, is the gravest problem of our times. With a gold standard, politics would be taken out of money. Inflation would end. All money would then be "private money."
Think about that. Read and hear Mises.
And don't cooperate with the Census.
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