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Dec 31st, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but ...
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Tags: anarchy, freedom, government
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Dec 30th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for ...
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Tags: anarchy, freedom, government
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Dec 10th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
I have a good friend named Bill who lives on the convergence of two tidal streams in an area aptly named: Twin Rivers. Last year his bulkhead was destroyed in a severe storm. The problem with repairing a bulkhead is that it is underwater, and that presents peculiar challenges. The ...
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Tags: government, jobs, recession
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Nov 28th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
One night we sat with Mr. Richmond and Mr. Dalton, this time joined by Mr. Skye, the five of us enjoying some precious tea and sweet corn bread following a meal. Skye happened to glance over to a little round table next to our rocker upon which sat my copy ...
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Tags: Alexander Hamilton, British Corruption, Economical Matters, finance, George Washington
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Investing Strategies
There has never been a better time than right now to buy stocks. I know what you’re thinking — it sounds strange considering the enormous volatility in the market. But, I’m not talking about just any old stocks. I’m talking about stocks that produce real income.
In these manic times, you ...
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Tags: dividend reinvestment plan, Dividend Reinvestment Plans, dividend yields, DRIP investing, reinvesting dividends
Posted in Investing Strategies |
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Nov 11th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics, Oil
If you’re sick of the gloom and doom permeating markets right now, you can find solace in one investment… Well, it’s actually a type of investment. I’m not talking about options or shorting or even bonds. We still like to buy low and sell high, but we also like our ...
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Tags: High Yield Stocks, Income Stocks, Investing Dividends in penny stocks, Penny Stocks, Potential Money multipliers, small cap stocks
Posted in Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies, Macro Economics, Oil |
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Oct 10th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Gold, Politics
“...If we allow governments to control finance, we give them extraordinary power over which projects are allowed and which are deemed inappropriate...”
The BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, Gordon Brown, says the current mess in world finance and credit is the fault of “irresponsible” bankers.
Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?
Let’s not forget ...
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Tags: bull market in gold, cautios banks, cautious bankers, incautious banks, increased regulation of financial institutions
Posted in Gold, Politics |
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Oct 6th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Currencies, Economics, Politics
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson was successful in publishing the Federal Reserve Act through Congress. The act allowed the government to establish the third central bank in the nation’s history.
Think of the Fed as the bank of banks, and the government’s bank — the gatekeeper of the U.S. economy. The ...
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Tags: gold standard, I.O.U.S.A, inflation, Paul Volcker, stagflation, U.S. fiat currency
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Politics |
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Sep 22nd, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Macro Economics
Welcome to the most crucial period in American financial history. And the only persons who warned us about it first are the very same our government just took out of commission: the short seller.
How’d they do it? Was it really an overnight blow? Nope, not at all. They eased us ...
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Tags: American financial history, Deutsche bank, naked shorting, naked shorts, Short Selling Regulations
Posted in Economics, Macro Economics |
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Sep 3rd, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Housing
A Texan customer who came to see me a few months ago told me a story which illustrates the fine mess we’re in.
In the 1980s boom his neighborhood boasted not one but two commercial real-estate developers, both of whom were building shopping malls.
The one developer was cautious. He’d already built ...
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Tags: cheap credit, credit crunch, overcapacity
Posted in Economics, Housing |
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