The issue is that in a >70% consumer economy a dramatic increase in taxes would cause a dramatic decrease in consumption. Raising taxes to a great...
Here comes Obama's second state bailout (ahem, stimulus).... Let people be occupied with top priority national security issues like underage...
Who needs TARP anymore when you can launder what you need cleanly through AIG?
It is very important to note that there can be technical deflation and an increase in prices concurrently due to currency devaluation. This...
Again this is a capitalist democracy, politicians can be bought and paid for, it would not be possible to create a truly non-collusive system.
From the NYtimes: The Olive Garden restaurant chain may not have been happy with David Lettermanâs jokes about Gov. Sarah Palin and her...
Goldwater was a self-deprecating jew, who literally would have been spat upon by (especially upper class) western europeans just a couple decades...
Yet gold still holds onto its purchasing power. It is not meant to be an investment it is just meant to keep the same value over time, when...
Gold is far from hardened carbon. It is an element with a very limited supply. When the price gold rises, the amount is more or less the same, it...
It is very unlikely that it will pass the senate and even if it does it would have to be in a very crippled state before Obama (advised by...
The philosopher Georg Hegel likened China to an ant colony run by mandarin bureaucrats.
The chinese should grow a pair, if they are going down the least they could do to preserve some of their dignity on the world stage would be to...
Here is a list of NYSE Arca equity member organizations. http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/ETP_Directory.pdf According to the NYSE: Clearing...
After Bretton-woods was established it did not take that long for the baby boomers to consume and enjoy the huge increase in growth and credit...
Here is the AFP story: BEIJING (AFP) â A decision by China to reduce its US Treasury holdings suggests concern about the US attitude towards...
Fox Business in 720p HD is another overpriced mistake in the making. The longer it is kept on air the more pricey it will be. Honestly what...
To begin with, there was an excessive consumer based economy that is now deleveraging. All the products that were produced for that consumer are...
The Soviet Union broke up, yet they did not hold the world hostage with their nuclear technology. Russia still has the largest amount of nukes in...
Russia and China belong to SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] which is an alternative to NATO, these are the only two countries that you...
This is ridiculous. Is it not suspicious why the US government hasn't made a real investigation of the credit rating agencies and their outright...
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