What to do in the Depression


The Libertarian Dark Night? Plus Other Ponderables

- The just-released smash box office hit, The Dark Night, illustrates a showdown between essential good and evil. Batman, a representative of the “Will to Excellence” fights tooth and nail with the coolly insane and generally power hungry Joker, representing the Nietzschean concept of the “Will to Power”. In this quality article, Jeff […]

Ponder This… Six-Pack #40: Economic Warning Signs

Oh man, the economic situation is rapidly rushing towards some of the troubles we have been calling for in published writings for a number of years. The threat of further economic dislocation is very high at this time. On to the economic six-pack:
1. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph, […]

Ron Paul versus Ben Bernanke

Bernanke admits that inflation is a tax!

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Ponder This… Six-Pack #39: War and Bail Outs

1. Well, last week we posted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were crashing. Over the weekend, (VERY wayward) portions of the U.S. government decided that they were going to work to bail out these massive failing institutions. Jim Rogers, a very famous global investor, is calling the deal an “unmitigated disaster” and […]

Government Sponsored Entities Crashing

We have written about the market danger posed by government sponsored, yet privately-owned, mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) numerous times in the history of this blog. Here are examples from November 2007, July 2007, and April 2007.
Well, it looks like our continuous calls for a destruction in the viability of […]

Two Videos: Ron Paul and Jim Rogers

Ron Paul explains some of the foolishness coming out of Congress in relation to Iran:

And, in a related bit of news, financial guru Jim Rogers is saying the US Dollar is dead. With a trillion dollar military empire and endless war and occupation draining our coffers, it is likely true that the Dollar (currently […]

The U.S. Government is Not Representing The People

With this FISA BS that passed today that is tremendously unpopular, with Congress thinking about legislating a new act of aggressive war against a third foreign nation (with potential nasty consequences), with the U.S. remaining an occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan against the wishes of the vast majority, with Congress’ latest approval rating at […]

The Consumer-Led Recession Is Here

At Ponder This… we have been publishing calls for a large economic adjustment in the U.S. and global markets since March of 2005. The operating thesis has been that the debt saturated U.S. economy, operating as the primary global product vacuum, would not be able to remain buoyant once the serial Federal Reserve inspired […]

Ponder This… Six-Pack #38

1. The Federal Government Leviathan “War on Drugs” has been a total failure. By creating an illegal black market for certain substances, and pouring vast military-style resources into trying to end a human vice, our Federal Government has created a bastion for illegal profits for smugglers, gangs, and pushers, has militarized domestic law enforcement […]