Government Eliminating Freedom Left and Right
This week two major court cases chipped away at our 4th amendment rights one by the Indiana courts and another by the U.S. Supreme court. Pretty soon they might as well just cross out the 4th amendment because it will be totally meaningless. In the Indiana case the court ruled that it is against the law to resist officers trying to enter your residence even if they don’t have a warrant and are entering illegally. In the Supreme Court Case they ruled that officers could enter a house without a warrant and subsequently arrest the occupants if they heard noises that made them assume that evidence was being destroyed.
In the following article David Galand addresses the herd mentality and why we as freedom loving Americans are putting up with this, how it affects our investments and what we can do about it. Tim McMahon, editor. Continue reading
Government Trend- Out of Control
By Tim McMahon, Editor
It’s not just the government’s finances that are out of control it is the government itself. Just this week several examples of an out of control government have crossed my desk.
1) The first is a law passed by the Indiana state legislature which makes it against the law to resist the entry of police officers even if their entry is unlawful. In other words they can enter your house without a warrant and you can’t resist. Theoretically if they do enter illegally, you can take them to court but what is to stop someone from dressing up like a police officer in Indiana and just walking into your house, since you can no longer resist?
What ever happened to the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees Continue reading
Profiting from Policy
These days, it’s hard to draw any conclusion other than that the train is gaining speed on wobbly tracks perched over a rickety bridge.
Most notably, unemployment has again risen – to 9.8% from 9.6% – very much not the direction things should be headed given the amount of money the government has pumped into the economy. The latest data shows that this nation of 310 million souls managed to add just 39,000 jobs in November. That, unfortunately, falls short of even keeping up with a population growth of about 1% – doing just that requires generating a net of about 250,000 jobs a month. As for eating away at the millions of unemployed and the many millions more who are underemployed… oh, well. Continue reading
Government Mules
By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research
What if the modern version of society is really nothing more than a sleight of hand designed to fool the masses into becoming little more than government mules, allowed their simple pleasures in exchange for providing the muscle and the money needed to feed the beast?
Watching my children grow older, now heading into the treacherous shoals of the teenage years, has been a visceral reminder of how the human mind develops. As young children, we see the world with fresh eyes and wonderment, and then quickly begin testing the physical and societal bounds as part of morphing into our more mature selves.
As we age into our teens and beyond, the testing of boundaries evolves into a series of calculations. If I do “A,” we wonder, will it lead to “B” or maybe “Z”?
From a young age, most of us are told to advance our education and otherwise better ourselves so that we will be able to find a good job, or a succession of good jobs, that will provide sustenance and security lasting most of a lifetime before retiring to dawdle about in our golden years.
At least that is the modern view of life pursued by the vast majority of the citizenry in the developed world. Continue reading
Six Months Until the Largest Tax Hikes in History
From Americans for Tax Reform:
By Ryan Ellis
In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011:
First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the GOP Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors, small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January 1, 2011. Continue reading
Taxes and More Government Oppression
How the Government Tries to Fleece You and What You Can Do About It
By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research
After a relaxing Thanksgiving break, I anticipated to return to work in a lighter frame of mind. However, the following item from FOX News crushed that hope right away:
Lawmakers Propose ‘War Surtax’ to Pay for Troop Increase in Afghanistan
Two top Democrats say they want to impose a new tax on the wealthy to finance any increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war. Continue reading
Has It Paid To “Follow” the Fed?
An Excerpt from Conquer the Crash by Robert Prechter
Yes, that’s a provocative question. Think of all the people who would squirm if they had to answer it.
For example, you’d see lots of squirming on Wall Street and in the media. They told stock market investors to trust the central bank in early 2001, by endlessly repeating the phrase “Don’t Fight the Fed!” That was the conventional wisdom then, even though you don’t hear it anymore now. The Fed did not stop the stock market from falling. Investors lost money.
The headline asks a question with “No” as the obvious answer. The notion that you “Don’t fight the Fed” has been a costly myth. Continue reading
A Central Bank’s Toolkit to fight a Depression
By Ted Peroulakis
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I know as you read this, you are aware that America and the world are currently experiencing an economic crisis.
Many economic experts say we could be heading towards a worsening recession or even a depression.
In this article, I have listed a few tools that a government has at its disposal to pull itself out of a recession and even avoid a depression.
It’s good to be aware of the intervention tools governments use to prop up an economy in order to better protect your wealth and purchasing power. Continue reading
