This is one of the most sensible reviews I have seen during this entire election process. Click here for the link and a quality read.
Something clearly is amiss in the political realm.
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Check out this article on the difficulty in gaining access to information relating to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, better known as “The Plunge Protection Team”.
I really do not believe a free market economy should have a hyperactive (or even active) group of government officials trying to jigger with the financial markets of [...]
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Ron Paul’s campaign is surging by the quarter. His growth can be seen by analyzing his quarterly fundraising haul:
First Quarter 2007 = $641,000
Second Quarter 2007 = $2.4 million
Third Quarter 2007 = $5.3 million
Fourth Quarter 2007 = $9.2 million (and counting, still over one month to go)
I project a total fourth quarter tally of roughly [...]
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The two massive government sponsored entities (GSEs) partially responsible for the boom in mortgage lending, mortgage packaging, and collateralized debt - and therefore indirectly responsible for the housing bubble - are currently crashing to new lows on heightened fears that the mortgage backed assets that the companies hold on their balance sheet as well as [...]
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Ron Paul had an opinion piece published in the Des Moines Register today. I think it is a really clear, concise and generally hard-to-argue-with commonsense position. With our sovereignty and the Constitution under continued attack, Dr. Paul is a rare voice in government actually pursuing the interests of free American individuals. His [...]
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Anyone with ANY sense WHATSOEVER should be pretty darn appalled by this video. They want to make people who reference the Constitution as a defense against Federal Government activity submit to compulsory medication! Wow!! Stand up to this stuff folks. The easiest way is voting Ron Paul 2008.
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The Fed injected a ton of cash into the banking system on Thursday. Much of it was a rollover of temporary injections from during the crunch of August. Short term interbank rates had begun to rise, probably somewhat in response to the expiring of the previous injections, and the Fed was trying to [...]
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11/20/2007
A nice commentary of the Liberty Dollar issue.
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11/19/2007
Another good article here.
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11/17/2007
Very interesting article here. Definitely check [...]
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Throughout the mortgage lending bubble, banks would push loans to consumers and then sell the loans to big-time financial entities. The financial behemoths would then split the mortgages up, package them with loans on other properties, and then sell the packaged loans as large fixed income securities assumed to have low risk, and accordingly ascribed [...]
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Please read this article. Apparently, the Liberty Dollar group has been raided by the FBI and all assets seized. If this is true it is a very interesting action and I would like to hear the reasoning behind it. All I can say is wow. I thought this was America, a [...]
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