Giving the fox in charge of the henhouse more powers is either quite dumb or corrupt.
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Washington, D.C. - Congressman Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207, has reached and surpassed the level of 218 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, which means it is now cosponsored by a majority of the members.
The 218th cosponsor was Dennis Kucinich (OH-10), and the bill has since received its 222nd cosponsor.
“The tremendous grass-roots [...]
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Great interview on The Daily Show:
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In what can only be described as one of the most laughingly sad moves of ALL TIME, the unconstitutional privately-owned Federal Reserve money/banking system has announced that they will be hiring a former Enron lobbyist to supposedly help clean up their image as the institution comes under increasing - and well deserved - popular criticism. [...]
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1. Economic well being is extremely dependent on return on investment (ROI). This measure illustrates how efficient one’s time, money, resources are being utilized. Maximizing ROI is the key to boosting an economy and the well being of the people in a given society.
2. War has a negative ROI. All the time, money and resources [...]
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Last year Bush and the Democrat congress broke the all-time record for the Federal gunvernment’s deficit at >$400 BILLION. As receipts declined (but spending didn’t) due to the collapse of the Federal Reserve-inspired housing/mortgage/funny money/equity bubble.
I thought that was bad, but, Obama and the Democrat congress have JUMPED THE SHARK and now project a [...]
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The big government supporters’ reliance on the printing press to mask the debasing of the capital stock, as well as their extreme willingness to commit economic plunder without addressing the fact that government economic activity is plunder-based, are the double whammy’s to the movement towards big government.
All honest and moral people will see that the [...]
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The package deal logical fallacy is described by Wikipedia to consist of “assuming that things often grouped together by tradition or culture must be always grouped that way.” I would further that description in this context by adding: grouping generally unrelated concepts into a broader concept that then begins to lose all of its [...]
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While MSNBC and CNN were talking non-stop gutter language about “tea bagging” and trying to frame the whole thing as a neo-con fest, the actual root of the Tea Party idea is based a huge amount on the ideas expressed in this speech.
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I have been following Northern Trust economist Paul Kasriel’s economic analysis on Safehaven.com for years (archive). I have found him to be very prescient and objective in his analysis. Rarely have I found high level disagreements with his insight.
His latest article “Are We There Yet?” makes the case that some sort of economic [...]
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