Rodger Mitchell

How I taught the Bing AI a bit of MS by asking a simple question about Medicare and Social Security. It left out the best answer.

Seemingly, it is possible for you to teach at least one of the new AI systems something, and perhaps they will repeat your teachings to other people who question them. This has interesting implications — positive and negative — which I may discuss in…

When myths become reality, science is forgotten

Two of the most important economic realities are Monetary Sovereignty and Gap Psychology. Together these realities rule the U.S. government’s control of America’s economy — or they should rule if voters understood them. 1. Monetary Sovereignty tells…

The “Tucker Carlson” That Proves The Jan. 6 Insurrection Never Happened.

The Fox News’s Tucker Carlson: Consider the death of police officer Brian Sicknick. Now, we still don’t know exactly how Officer Sicknick died. We’re not certain that anyone does know. No one has explained it, but after reviewing the previously…

Dollars exist, but in what form; who created them, and how?

Dollars exist, but in what form; who created them, and how? The uninformed may respond that dollars are pieces of green paper printed by the U.S. Treasury. That answer would be incorrect on every level. Those green pieces of paper are not dollars.…

A misleading graph: Federal income vs. federal spending

Self-evaluation corresponds with intelligence. If you are smart, being smart lets you understand that you are smart. If you are stupid, being stupid keeps you from knowing you are stupid. Thus, everyone thinks they are smart. In related issues,…

Again, Reason.com claims the US government can run out of US dollars. Liars or fools? You decide.

Here is an easy way to detect economics bullshit: If someone tells you that U.S. federal government spending — any U.S. federal government spending — is “unsustainable” without explaining why, you can be sure that person is a liar or a fool. No…

The economically harmful student loan program

Almost exactly a year ago, we published “Cancel student loan debt?” It included the following points, which also were part of the post titled, “Free education for everyone” from February 9, 2017. Educating our young people is important to the future…

The Terminator is not coming. It’s here.

The “Terminator” movie series provided a fictional, dystopian view of a world in which intelligent machines attempt to stamp out human life. Perhaps it is more prescient than you might believe. Here are excerpts from articles that should shake you…

GOODBY MEDICARE; IGNORANCE WINS

PRELUDE We’ll begin with the basics: To understand this article, you must understand the differences between a Monetarily Sovereign entity and one that is monetarily non-sovereign. Unlike state/local governments and euro governments, U.S. federal…

Fun with a chatbot

We speculated on the fanciful notion that we humans may be one step in some grand scheme. (It’s all just fun and games but play along for a bit.) In this mythical (?) grand scheme, would our purpose be to serve as an interim species in a series of…

The Rise of the Chatbot. Are we an interim species?

We humans are among the latest in a long line of mostly extinct species on earth, and to the best of our knowledge, we are the smartest. But are we the final step, or are we just another interim species? Will we be replaced by an even smarter…

Remember that “ticking time bomb”? After 83 years it’s still ticking, and still a scam

The “ticking time bomb” is the federal debt that supposedly is so big as to be “unsustainable.” You remember. It’s the “bomb” that has been sustained for 84 years. If someone is wrong every year for 84 years, would you believe them? Unfortunately,…

Federal debt, myths and facts: What you’ve been told vs. the facts.

Debt-to-GDP Ratio: How High Is Too High? It Depends October 07, 2020, By Heather Hennerich How much federal debt is too much? Is there a tipping point at which it becomes a big problem for a country? One way to gauge the size of a country’s national…

Oh, Veronique, you write so much and seem to know so little about America’s #1 scam.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY is a contributing editor at Reason. She is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. According to the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University…

Today’s buzzword: Intersectionality

Word definitions change. Author Lewis Carrol, in “Through the Looking Glass,” wrote this dialog: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’…

If you know any anti-vaxxers, be sure to thank them.

If you know any anti-vaxxers, be sure to thank them for winning Darwin Awards., Their victories help improve the intelligence of the human species. Here are excerpts from an article that appeared in the February issue of Scientific American…

The CRFB gives you Social Security choices. Hello, sucker.

The mouthpiece for the rich, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, has a web site that says this: Social Security provides vital income security to millions of beneficiaries but is on a road toward insolvency. The Social Security program…

The federal debt con on you

Here is what former Federal Reserve Chairmen said when they were being honest: Ben Bernanke: “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it…

New York Post tells it like it isn’t — ticking time bomb version

Readers of this blog are familiar with the “ticking time bomb” series; examples are here, here, here and elsewhere. The point of this endless series is that since 1939, the media, politicians, and economists have been wringing their hands about the…

Who are America’s most dangerous people?

Who are America’s most dangerous people? What’s your opinion? You might be tempted to name the white supremacists who attacked Congress and attempted to overthrow the U.S. election. Had they succeeded, the America you know and love would be gone. Or…