Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser

Cartoon. (09/07/26)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2604

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jennie Jones

“‘Dance won’t pay well. You should choose a real job.’ ‘There aren’t many jobs in the dance world, and it’s really hard to get into. You should have a backup plan.’ And my personal favorite: after I shared with my high school counselor that I planned to dance as long as I could and then go to law school, she jokingly replied, ‘That’s just what the world needs—more dancing lawyers.’ This was the well-meaning advice I got from most of the adults in my life during my final years of high school. I was recently reflecting on that advice, now with the hindsight of more than 20 years of making a living doing things I love, and I realized where it fell short for me.” (09/04/26)

https://fee.org/articles/stop-preparing-kids-for-jobs-teach-them-to-build-a-livelihood/

Source: Common Dreams
by Bruce T Boccardy

“Our economic model is plagued with a history of periodic recessions and depressions. That history is recorded by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Recessions and depressions are clinically presented as normal components of the ‘business cycle’. The NBER does not report the chronic instability and destruction of communities and working people’s lives by this ‘business cycle’. Political democracy demands economic democracy. We have statutes, laws, regulations, and rules to protect the common good. Why not apply the same principles to the relations of production? Many economists, psychologists, and journalists have attempted to rationalize the chronic crisis in our economic model. These fanciful assertions are thoroughly inadequate. As Leo Huberman chronicled in Man’s Worldly Goods, some experts actually attributed the chronic crises to radiation from the sun or the path of the planet Venus.” (09/07/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/limits-reform-economic-model

Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert

“The US factories that rely on Canadian steel, parts, energy, and expertise want President Trump not to make those inputs more expensive — and American producers less competitive.” (09/04/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/made-in-north-america-canada-is-not-our-enemy/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter

“A unit of account allows us to evaluate and compare the exchange-values of heterogeneous goods by expressing those values in a common monetary unit. But for that common denominator to be meaningful, the monetary unit must itself be grounded in determinate exchange-ratios and purchasing power. Otherwise, we are attempting to express the values of other goods in terms of a unit whose own exchange-value is undefined. These realities bolster the Menger-Mises monetary theory and reveal a profound problem with chartalism, the state theory of money, and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This article examines a problem that would arise on the theoretical first day of chartalism: What is the referent of a newly-created fiat monetary unit? Is it market-given or politically-determined? How can a definition-less fiat-token acquire determinate exchange-value and function as a meaningful unit of account in the first place?” (09/04/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-and-price-controls-never-happened