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This past year is more evidence that just about everyone with normal lives will be better off by refraining from daily, or even weekly intake of economic and political news from all traditional sources. We have been inundated with daily doses of hypertensive headlines heralding one “crisis” after another.…

Critical Sign on our Road to the Economic Abyss

Critical Sign on our Road to the Economic Abyss

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Demographics, domicile & debt. How are these factors contributing to the ongoing economic crisis in the U.S. and beyond?…

Who Owns You?

Who Owns You?

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Jack Kevorkian died last Friday. I honor his passing because he fought and sacrificed himself for the right to assisted suicide. Whether he understood it or not, his crusade was to reinstate a key element in the broader, most fundamental right to self ownership. …

Monetary Madness

Monetary Madness

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The public has been conditioned like dogs to believe that inflation is a necessary byproduct of prosperity in a modern economy; that if the fed did not create so much cyber cash everything would fall apart. Read here to find out why.…

Saving Social Insecurity

Saving Social Insecurity

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Libertarians make the righties look like pansies when it comes to cutting government spending, eliminating government programs and actually closing whole departments. Here are some suggestions to consider. …

Perspective

Perspective

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This is an excellent time to step back from the depressing deluge of data and try to gain some perspective and context. You all have undoubtedly heard or seen articles purporting to prove that the middle class is no better off than forty or fifty years ago. As…

Scapegoating Speculators

Scapegoating Speculators

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The truth is the professional speculator is not a super swami stud, but a timid trend follower hiding in the shadow until a trend emerges, hops on, and then runs at the first sign of conflict. Professional speculators may on occasion exacerbate price movements already in progress, but they…

Inflation and the Two Americas

Inflation and the Two Americas

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Inflation (the expansion of the quantity of money) causes prices of products and services to be higher than they otherwise might be in the absence of that monetary inflation. Some prices will go up more than others and at different times. Some prices may even go down. …

No Jobs Here

No Jobs Here

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The decline in the unemployment rate to 8.9% is utter nonsense. This good news, trumpeted by the power elites, occurred only because millions of people have literally given up all hope of finding a job. …

Just the Beginning: Expect an Exodus

Just the Beginning: Expect an Exodus

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The attempt by the righties to strip the public unions of collective bargaining is why I get the dry heaves every time a libertarian allows himself to be labeled a conservative. Milton Friedman let it slide all the time. Conservatives do not believe in limited government or free…

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