1. Well, sadly in a way, Ron Paul officially ended his campaign for presidency of the United States. The real good news, however, is that the Leader for Liberty has created a new organization to combine the vast will-power of the Ron Paul movement freedom-lovers into a united group to pursue limited government and [...]

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1. The Federal Reserve System is the primary culprit as to what caused the current credit/housing/mortgage bust. The below-market interest rates engineered by Alan Greenspan and continued by Ben Bernanke and Co. created bubbles and malinvestments (think “Negative Amortization Mortgages” for one specific example) that are now coming home to roost laying waste to [...]

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This is a very interesting and telling question and answer session. The language and communication barrier is large, but it comes out loud and clear that the Iraqi people do not want a massive long-term U.S. military presence and a Vatican-sized U.S. embassy. George W. Bush said we were giving them democracy right? [...]

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1. Due to the overwhelming evidence of a long-term bubble in the housing market due to unprecedented lax lending standards, we have called for a significant drop in real estate prices since the March 2005 introduction of the Ponder This… newsletter. Although housing continued to hold on for about another year, with some markets [...]

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