Whiskey and Gunpowder

I just ran across this site tonight and it seems pretty good.  I added it to my blogroll pretty much sight unseen because of the name, and their “about us” page.  It says:

Whiskey & Gunpowder explores the crossroads of liberty, finance and moral philosophy. Frankly, we don’t believe these things can be examined separately and we do our best every business day to demonstrate why. We regard state intervention as the danger it is to healthy free markets. We also lean heavily toward a consideration of commodities in a world of increasing scarcity.

In other words, I agree with their philosophy, and I’m hopeful that the content of the site lives up to their ideals.

gk

Now we've got a problem!

Ok, things are getting bad in the economy – sub-prime, housing, credit, Social Security and Medicare crisis’ – all sorts of problems that we’ll work through eventually.  But this could cause the whole house of cards to come tumbling down.

According to the story there’s a severe shortage of hops, an essential ingredient in the making of the drink that makes civilization possible – beer.

What happens when brokers and traders can’t relax with a beer (or 6) at the end of a long day?  How long will workers continue to work if they can’t unwind with a brew with their buddies? 

This calls for government intervention in order to prevent our whole civilization from disappearing.  I bet something like this happened to the Assyrians and Egyptians….  They invented beer and rose to greatness, but if they ran out of hops, they would have sunk faster than Atlantis.

I haven’t heard a speech by any of the presidential candidates explaining how they’d handle this calamity.  Why the silence?

gk