Archive for John L. Chapman
John Chapman is chief economist at Miami-based Alhambra Investment Partners and director of research at Hill & Cutler Co. in Washington.
A Return to Gold?
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society. . . .The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the [...]
30Nov2011 | John L. Chapman | 13 comments | ContinuedCapitalism & Socialism
Mr. Chapman, an economics major in college, is a marketing representative for IBM in Louisville, Kentucky. My purpose here is to extol the virtues of a social system based on the precepts of private enterprise, limited government, and maximum individual liberty. This system, known as “capitalism,” will first be defined, and its major features will [...]
1May1985 | John L. Chapman | 0 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
