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- 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 […]

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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, […]

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I would just like to point Ponder This… readers back to my August 2005 analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. A full three years before their virtual implosions, I was railing on the situation and providing a warning. Please check out page nine of the PDF newsletter issue.
Also, Robert Higgs provides a […]

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Bernanke admits that inflation is a tax!

Also, be sure to digg this story. Click here.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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