Posts Tagged ‘ America ’
Do you suppose cows have any idea what's coming as they're marched down the chute? Or do they stare with bovine indifference at the tail and hind quarters in front of them, until they're suddenly -- and very briefly -- startled by the man with the nail gun?
Perhaps Americans will ...read more
If You Leave the U.S. Permanently, Where Should You Go?
Dec 9th, 2011 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Travel day, good patrons! We're in transit from our family stronghold in Central Florida to join our colleagues in Baltimore for a little Christmas cheer. We haven't much time before we have to shut down our laptop in accordance with FAA regulations. But we still aim to be useful.
We're continuing ...read more
An End to Empire
Sep 9th, 2011 | By andrewbacevich | Category: Politics
"The tide of war is receding... It is time to focus on nation building here at home."
-- President Obama, June 22
Ideology makes people stupid. Employing ideology as the basis for policy is a recipe for disaster. Surviving in a complex, uncertain environment requires flexibility, pragmatism and, perhaps above all, self-awareness. ...read more
How to Replace Austerity with Freedom, Independence and Prosperity
Jan 28th, 2011 | By Scott Lazarowitz | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The Economic Collapse Blog has this list of examples of how European-style “austerity” is already hitting the U.S., including cities closing schools and fire stations, and states eliminating whole state agencies and raising taxes. That includes the state of Illinois whose legislature has passed a “temporary” 66% personal income tax ...read more
Saving America from Corporate-Statism
Apr 23rd, 2010 | By Nelson Hultberg | Category: Economics, Featured
As America sinks deeper into the tyranny of bureaucratic corporatism via today's incestuous relationship between Washington and Wall Street, it is inspiring to see thousands of Tea Parties spring up to express outrage. Unfortunately the "new deal" campaign approach still works as it has been malefically doing for over 70 ...read more
The Debt Problem Has Not Gone Away
Feb 1st, 2010 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Last year's stock market rally was impressive. But what if it was merely a case of investors taking on more risk, having been encouraged by low interest rates and all the liquidity sloshing around in the stock market, taking it higher? How would that be substantially different from banks taking ...read more
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
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
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
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

