1. With social mood rolling over back into a more serious bear market environment, it is always interesting to see new social trends begin to grow and take off. This article/video blog highlights a large crowd of hipsters gathered at Union Square in New York City for what looks like a spontaneous “fight club” [...]
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1. America was created as a land focused on the protection of liberty and limited government. Known as the “land of the free”, the country has been a rare force in the history of the world in terms of creating and maintaining a free society. That being said, with individual freedom being a [...]
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Please join me in a moment of reflection for those who have given their lives in times of war.
On this day of reflection, it becomes even more concrete that war is a bane of human existence. As we continue into the 21st Century, we must remain vigilant in our efforts to bring peaceful solutions [...]
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1. Reflecting the sentiments held by the editorial board here at Ponder This… and aligning with reasonable and aware analysis of the underlying interests in the subject, huge bond manager Bill Gross today came out stating that he believes the Federal Government has understated consumer price inflation on a continuous basis. Given that so [...]
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1. As a young person, I always took it as natural that fluoridating the water supply made sense. It’s one of those things you kind of accept given the nominal BS reason given that “it’s good for tooth decay”. Given that there have been growing questions in relation to potential health risks associated [...]
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I love the quote at the end: When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Check it out and feel free to laugh out loud:
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1. Bill Kauffman, author of Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, which is worth a read in itself, provides a very solid review of Ron Paul’s excellent piece of 21st Century political analysis The Revolution: A Manifesto.
2. In a turn of events that is at the same time [...]
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Real Estate/Credit Deflation 16: The Next Dozen Shoes to Drop
By Steve Moyer
“If the shoe fits, it’s too expensive.” ~ Adrienne Gusoff
I was offered a very nice position with Fisher Investments of Woodside, California last year and, although I passed on the opportunity, I truly respect their money management track record. At the same time, [...]
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1. Mish produces a very nice analysis of government sponsored entity (”GSE”), mortgage backed security packager Fannie Mae and its capital position. Needless to say, given the significant downturn in the housing market, predictable by us, but unpredictable by pie-in-sky financial professionals and government bureaucrats the world over, the mortgage giant is not looking [...]
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Many chicken-hawks, war-mongers and those who may potentially profit from endless war and the military-industrial complex (politicians included…) have tried to smear Ron Paul as somehow not supporting the troops because he is not a gung-ho Iraq War supporter. The facts say, however, that Paul’s positions - protect and defend America first, do not [...]
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