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Cable news is arguing eggs, beef, gas, and Iran. Bruce Director spent Saturday night on the real midterm question: American System vs. British System — two flavors of the same entropy, and nine weeks to pick a future.
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In this week’s Saturday Class, Bruce Director went underneath the price-of-groceries argument to the fight that actually decides the November 3 midterms. Trump, Scott Bessent, Jamieson Greer, and Peter Navarro all say they are reviving the American System.
Stanley Druckenmiller’s attack on Bessent earlier this week is the other side saying the quiet part out loud: leave it to the magic of the marketplace. Bruce’s job Saturday night was to show what the two systems actually are — down to the physics.
The American System was founded in practice by Alexander Hamilton’s reports to Congress: Public Credit, the National Bank, and the Report on Manufactures. Against Jefferson and Madison’s agricultural nation, Hamilton argued that manufacturing multiplies the productive powers of labor — division of labor, machinery, and this:
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind by multiplying the objects of enterprise is not among the least considerable of the expedients by which the wealth of any nation may be promoted.
— Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, quoted by Bruce
Wealth comes from the improvement of the human mind. That principle ran from Hamilton through John Quincy Adams, Lincoln and Henry Carey, Friedrich List, McKinley, and FDR — and Lyndon LaRouche made it rigorous as a science of physical economy. Bruce, who worked with LaRouche for decades, presented these as his own views, developed out of that collaboration.
An economy’s input is creative ideas, and its output is more advanced creative ideas.
— Bruce Director
The opposition comes in two flavors that cable news sells as opposites. Free trade — Adam Smith’s invisible hand, Mandeville’s private-vice-public-virtue beehive, gussied up and mathematized by Hayek, von Mises, and Friedman — is statistical mechanics applied to people: molecules bouncing in a gas, and Planck showed where statistics ends. Nothing is more probable than maximum entropy. Booms and busts, forever.
Socialism — Marx in its hard form, Keynes in its light form — is Newtonian determinism: the economy as a clockwork you can calculate forward and backward, five-year plans as differential equations. Marx, who did all his research inside the British system and explicitly attacked Henry Carey, got the role of technology exactly backwards. (Barbara Boyd is working on a pamphlet on Marx and the British system.)
Both flavors delete the same thing: the creative discovery that reorganizes everything. Both bake in entropy — the cream dispersing through the coffee, the system running down to equilibrium. Both have failed everywhere they were tried.
Creativity is voluntary. It cannot be compelled — which is why compelled societies don’t have it, and why America does. The American System has 250 years of experimental proof; the empires that ran the other system are relics. Trump’s Friday speech at the Johnson Space Center points where the American System is headed for years to come — if the midterms deliver a Congress that will implement it.
The real debate isn’t the price of eggs. It’s whether the universe is a clock running down or a creation still creating — and which Congress we elect on November 3 depends on which answer wins.
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