Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Kemp
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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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Kemp
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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