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Sep 4th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Politics
Consider economics and governments as resembling a restaurant.
In order for there to be a restaurant at all some entrepreneur has to put his money and vision on the line and open it. He has a thing called "overhead," which is irreducible on-going expenses whether he has any customers at all ...
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Tags: fiat money, government, inflation, money, taxes
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Jun 17th, 2009 |
By Matt Insley |
Category: Energy, Featured, Oil, Politics
There I was, surrounded by thousands of barrels of Kentucky’s finest -- seemingly, enough bourbon to get every of-age taxpayer in the U.S. a little tipsy. By any stretch of the imagination, this place was paradise. Rolling hills as far as you could see and the air was thick with ...
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Tags: mileage, Oil, taxes
Posted in Energy, Featured, Oil, Politics |
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Jun 10th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Personal Liberties
The great financial minds in Washington are at it again, starting another war. As usual, it is "for our own good" and will make twenty-eight per cent. of the adult population miserable while destroying a large industry and reducing tax revenues sharply. Does legislation get any better than that?
This time ...
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Tags: FDA, government, taxes
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies, Personal Liberties |
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May 4th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Finally…we’re back in London. We left at the beginning of April…went to San Diego and Los Angeles…then to Buenos Aires and Salta…then to Paris for a few days.. and now we’re back. London is cold and rainy…just like we left it. Not exactly home…but it will do.
But what’s this?
The City ...
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Tags: deficits, government, taxes
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Apr 16th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Don't ask us why the Maestro showed up in our dream. He just did. So we took the opportunity to ask him a few questions. We've reconstructed the conversation as best we can.
"Maestro...you hardly look yourself. It looks like twenty years have dropped from your face. It must be liberating ...
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Tags: fiat money, gold standard, government, taxes
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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Mar 23rd, 2009 |
By Samantha Buker |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Just back from a week in LA, where I scoped out UCLA's Center for Social Theory and Comparative History lecture on Economic Meltdown: Causes and Consequences. Call it a History Dept. vs. Economics Dept. smackdown. (More on that in a future Shot).
I'd have gotten you some student attendee commentary -- ...
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Tags: tax code, taxes
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
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Mar 20th, 2009 |
By Bill Jenkins |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
We watched in dismay as the unemployment numbers soared again last Friday -- a massive loss of 651,000 jobs in February. Thank God it was a short month...
But let's put this into perspective. In December, the non-farm payroll (NFP) figure was 577,000 jobs lost. In January, the NFP figure was ...
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Tags: liberty, socialism, taxes, unemployment
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Mar 19th, 2009 |
By David Eichler |
Category: Energy, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Oil
A small community of people on a desert island would probably ration its resources very carefully, but would surely allow anyone who so volunteered to put as much time and effort as he wished into being productive, for whatever compensation he could negotiate with the others. The principle applies to ...
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Tags: fossil fuel, natural resources, taxes
Posted in Energy, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Oil |
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Nov 21st, 2008 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Society functions best when each individual minds his own business…literally. When concerns are local and governments miniscule — just doing modest things like protecting property rights and enforcing contracts — then things generally work out for the best. When governments get ambitious and each citizen seeks ...
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Tags: currency, depression, gold standard, taxes
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics |
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