If We Wanted A Free And Constitutional America To Fail ...

This week, on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, Rush mentioned and played a few snippets of a video produced and posted by FreeMarketAmerica.org. The presentation gave light to the how and why America appears to be...

Why Newt Gingrich? Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

The pressure is again being mounted by some in the conservative media for former Speaker Newt Gingrich to withdraw from the GOP race. I sound a word of warning to conservatives against any such move and in fact, urge them to support Speaker Gingrich in whatever way possible...

Nominal GDP the primary metric for the performance of the nation

Nominal GDP The primary metric for the performance of the nation from optimizing return on national resources is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “Nominal GDP” is market value of GDP: the current market value...

Bailout Madness - Bank of America's Greed has no limit

A fresh outrage by Bank of America (BoA), moving to foist at least $22 trillion nominal value of Merrill Lynch derivatives onto the FDIC-insured bank unit of the unbroken-up behemoth, shows why only...

Recovery – Slow, Slog, Staggering

Bernanke speaks Until capitalists are engaged in the process of engineering high returns from American investments, the economy will drag on. Until government reins in spending to a radically significant level...

Ben Bernanke: US Economic Outlook 'Unusually Uncertain'

Fed Chairman Warns of Slower Economic Recovery In a testimony before Congress, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that the economic outlook was "unusually uncertain", and that recovery was not as strong...

Cloture Vote: Bernanke Re-elected Chairman Of Federal Reserve

Ben Bernanke was re-elected as the Chairman of Federal Reserve by Senate today. Bernanke was voted 70 to 30. But, before the Senate re-elected Bernanke today, a cloture vote had to be held first. But what does...

Bernanke Vote: Ben Bernanke Gets a Second Term in Senate Vote

Ben Bernake will get a second term as the Federal Reserve Chairman in a senate vote that took place today. The final vote count was 70-30 and this is just three days before Bernanke's first term was scheduled to end. A cloture vote had to be reached first however. President...

Lloyd Blankfein Of Goldman Sachs Drops A Clue

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) held its first hearing today. According to its website (http://www.fcic.gov/about/), the Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the...

Forget Twitter--How Many Nigerian Scammers Follow You? UPDATE 2

So what if @aplusk has well over four million Twitter followers, with @britneyspears and @TheEllenShow closing in? That doesn’t mean us regular folk, with 74 followers, have to hang our heads in social media shame. Having millions of Nigerian scam emails cluttering our...

Time Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke

Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, Chair of the US Federal Reserve. In other words, Ben Bernanke is the man who is in control of the US money supply, and therefore a singularly powerful player on the world economic stage. It's not too surprising that...

Is Active Monetary Intervention Necessary?

Friedman's "solution for reducing the prospect for active intervention as well as the margin of human error was to propose the establishment of monetary rules instead of monetary authorities," explains Vox Day the...

'Too Big to Fail' even Bigger now

Companies paying bosses vast bonuses while getting state assistance offended peoples' values, says President Obama. Timmy Geithner the Treasurer says, seven companies must slash the basic salaries of their 25...

World Financial Crisis a Terrorist Act.

By; Rev. Jermano   I remember the words all US politicians use and that is protecting the US people from terrorism. That is why Bush lied and went to War...against Iraq and Afghanistan. They summoned the...

Recovery a Hoax

Traveling through Europe the last couple of weeks brought a closer insight in the economic development underway.Meanwhile the US Dollar has fallen in an opposed direction compared with stocks, gold, and the rest of...

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