Posts Tagged ‘ Politics ’

Detroit Real Estate: Down and Out at Market Value

Oct 26th, 2009 | By Gary Gibson | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Detroit must be feeling like a streetwalker far past her prime. Some 9,000 homes and lots went up for tax foreclosure auction in the American symbol of industrial urban failure…yet 80% of them remain unsold despite a minimum bid of $500. How the world turns. Once Detroit was a dynamic city, the urban ...read more

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The Political Phase and the Death of Nations

Aug 26th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
The United States is in the third and fatal stage of a great country’s life-cycle – the political stage. In this stage, money and power migrate from the financial community to the political community. The politicians get away with taking trillions out of the productive economy and spending them on ...read more

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Political Intolerance

May 21st, 2009 | By Chris Hitzroth | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’ve heard a lot lately about how we need to be tolerant of one another’s political views.  I hear this, I suspect, because I’m not tolerant of most people’s politics.  I’m told we can have a good argument about our positions on the issues, but when we’re done, we must ...read more

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Where’s the Party?

Jan 30th, 2007 | By Jim Amrhein | Category: Macro Economics
I'll admit it. I'm considered somewhat of a dork among my friends. It's not because I'm a computer wizard (far from it), nor is it because I'm addicted to video games involving animated fighting of fantasy creatures. It isn't because I'm a champion Dungeons & Dragons player, a widely published author ...read more

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