Category Archives: Economy

Dr. Barbara Neuby – “Global Financial Update”

The Madison Forum is very pleased that Barbara Neuby, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science & Public Administration, School of Government & International Affairs, Kennesaw State University was the Guest Speaker Monday, March 31, 2025 at our Madison Forum Dinner Meeting at the Marietta Fish Market.

Dr. Neuby provided critical insight with a talk on: “Global Financial Update and Financial System Change & What You Can Do to Protect Yourself.”

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Devolving California Into A Third World Nightmare

By Frosty Wooldridge

In the past 50 years, I have bicycled the length and width of California seven times. I have motorcycled the coast 10 times.  I have driven a car up the coast 8 times. I’ve driven a United Van Lines 18 wheeler dozens of times around California during my trucking years. In other words, I have seen California from every possible angle. 

I’ve visited Yosemite, Prairie Creek Redwoods, … Read more...

January Madison Forum Meeting

For this meeting, Madison Forum President, Michael Opitz, leads off the meeting with some historical and Constitutional contextual analysis and scholarly opinions on the meaning of “Birth Right Citizenship, followed by Gary Pernice with some insightful history on Greenland, and then VoterGA’s co-founder, Garland Favorite updates us on the status and direction of the Dominion Voting System as nation-wide abandonment appears imminent.

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What Are Sanctuary Cities REALLY Costing American Citizens?

By Frosty Wooldridge

 

Answer: a financial nightmare of costing billions if not trillions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers, murders of our citizens, rapes of our innocent women, billions-trillions in cash transfers out of our country, gangs taking up residence in our major cities, MS-13 plying its deadly drugs to our youth, shoplifting gangs, millions of homeless costing us billions of dollars, degradation of our cities with bums injecting meth syringes … Read more...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Threat to United States Sovereignty

By
Tom Barksdale

In October, the United States and 10 other Pacific rim countries, after five years of secret negotiations, reached an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest free-trade agreement ever concluded. President Obama must wait 90 days after the formal announcement of the final TPP agreement before signing the pact and sending it to Congress; that could happen by Feb. 4. Lawmakers would then work with the administration … Read more...

Collectivism, the Environment’s Real Danger

By Bradley Opitz

Each year, Earth Day is celebrated by many people all around the world. It is a day that is set aside for a time of reflection on the physical state of the earth, and to celebrate the planet that humanity has always called home.  Coincidentally, the day that has been set aside to celebrate earth coincides with the date of birth of a man named Vladimir Lenin.  … Read more...

Dine and Dash in the US Economy, Reconsidering Ian Ruined’s “I at Least Shagged” – A Siren’s Song to the American Odyssey

(Please note that Michael Anderson is a respected MD practicing as a pediatrician and constitutional attorney who clerked for a Federal Appeals Court Judge.  He, as all our writers, is a Madison Forum Member.)

By
Michael Anderson

Reconsidering the Sirens’ song from Ayn Rand’s (aka “Ian Ruined”), that oddly influential book that may have been originally titled as “I at Least SHAGGED”.  Perhaps publishers believed US readers would miss the … Read more...

The EU is doomed!

Just The Numbers, Mam

By: Les Dunaway

As regular readers know, I’ve been less than optimistic about the prospects for recovery in the EU. I don’t believe that Greece, Portugal, Italy or, for that matter, France, will wean themselves from the socialist trough.

Sunday night, the most clueless of the clueless “mainstream media”, 60 Minutes, led with  An Imperfect Union: Europe’s debt crisis [story] . Steve Kroft deserves … Read more...

A Preview of Socialist America

Just The Numbers, Mam

By: Les Dunaway

An article by Alberto Mingardi was published in the Friday 23 March 2012 Wall Street Journal titled The European Union According to Hayek. It is an impressive, short summary of key ideas from Friedrich Hayek and an explanation of how Hayek predicted the collapse of the EU, which we are now witnessing. Notice that Mingardi refers to the breakdown of the European Read more...