If the presidential election was held today and I had to choose only from the candidates listed on the ballot I would definitely punch the square next to the name Patrick J. Buchanan. He asks the dangerous questions and endures many attacks from the establishment for doing so. That it also says that one cannot see his ass from a hole in the ground on economics is all the more reason not to go to vote come November. Someone who understood economics a lot better than Buchanan was the great writer William S. Burroughs. It always takes more and more to buy less and less.
Money is like junk.
A dose that fixes Monday won't fix on Friday. Damn straight he was. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that Buchanan ever sought out the counsel of Burroughs, or that he would have considered it. Pitchfork Pat has had access to the greatest economists of the age and has ignored their words. Imagine if Bill Burroughs woke up one morning and found himself chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.