Here's Walter Williams, writing on LewRockwell.com: "My initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it's easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and immoral. Immoral acts are those that violate self-ownership. Murder, rape, [...]
Where do I start? ZOMG. Item #1: The Ben Bernank is where he belongs, on the defensive. Let's keep him there. The Bernank had to go on friendly government TV for a softball interview with 60 Minutes. The Bernank: "One myth that’s out there is that what we’re doing is printing money. We’re not printing [...]
It's undeniable that modern economies run on energy and that oil is one of the more useful forms of energy. One of the principal values that still undergirds the value of the U.S. Dollar is the fact that the major Middle East nations still sell oil priced in Dollars. You might not know that Russia [...]
Why is the left leading the charge on this as far as the MSM is concerned? Why am I having to post a TV interview featuring Matt Taibbi in an interview on MSNBC? AFAIK, everything Taibbi is saying in this vid is correct. The banks are positively stuffed full of assets that are in fact [...]
Senator Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-i7qIYGCQ&feature=player_embedded#! Listen to this threat: "So let me caution our witnesses today...if you fail to fix this, we're gonna fix it for you. We need new catalysts for quality news, and entertainment programming. I hunger for quality news...it'd be a big favor to political discourse...our ability to do our work [...]
Update on Foreclosure Fraud; in a piece last month I brought the fraudulent foreclosure mess to your attention. I have not pounded the table on this issue because the state Attorneys General were in the midst of a joint investigation, and Obama had vetoed an attempt by the banksters to paper over their paper mess [...]
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There's a lot happening, so this installment is teasers and links to several important financial news items. Bloomberg: Bernanke Asset Purchases Risk Unleashing Inflation (Update1) Bernanke next week is likely to preside over a decision to launch another round of large-scale asset purchases after deploying $1.7 trillion to pull the economy out of the financial [...]
The saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. But David Broder's column in WaPo yesterday brushes aside all pretenses. Titled "The War Recovery?", Broder openly suggests that the U.S. ramp up for war as a way out of our economic crisis, and that the Republicans would likely support this: The steps that have been [...]
1. Implement Constitutional Adherence. The list of possibilities here in endless, isn't it? 2. Implement Limited Government. For starters, someone can show me where in the Constitution it says that taxpayers are supposed to bail out banks. If no one can, then maybe we can consider NOT BAILING THEM OUT. 3. Implement Fiscal Restraint. Refuse [...]
This ArmyTimes article from 15 October 2010 contains this gem: For the second year in a row, there will be no cost-of-living adjustment in military and federal civilian retired pay, nor in veterans’ disability and survivor benefits, in 2011. “You have to look for the silver lining,” said Steve Strobridge of the Military Officers Association [...]
Gregg: Repeal not best tactic on healthcare law A top Senate Republican suggested Monday night that the party's prevailing strategies to curtail the new healthcare law might not be good ideas. Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that repealing the new healthcare reform law — or looking to [...]
