Posts Tagged ‘ America ’

Detroit’s Socialist Nightmare Is America’s Future

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By Porter Stansberry | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Liberties
One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural ...read more

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Reality Receding Across America

Sep 17th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the "recession" over, is exactly the moment when what's left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they'd be starting ...read more

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The Education Bubble, Part I

Sep 16th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Politics
For most of the life of the United States of America one of the biggest dreams was that the next generation would exceed what their parents had achieved. Horatio Alger, "any boy can grow up to be president," "I want my children to have a better education than I did..." ...read more

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Contraction and Electric Car Whimsy

Jul 16th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The cat coming out of the bag this week -- a frazzled, flaming, rabid, death-dealing cat -- is the news that Goldman Sachs will announce impressive second-quarter profits, and set aside $18 billion or so for employee bonuses averaging $600,000 per head (though, of course, not evenly distributed among them).  ...read more

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Public Schools and Social Security: Killing America, Part I

Dec 8th, 2008 | By Don Stott | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
There are a lot of ways to kill something, either slowly or quickly.  As for a living thing, you can shoot it, run over it, or use some other instant way of getting rid of it.  There are slow ways, such as poison administered gradually, or perhaps destroying its ability ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics | 15 comments