Yesterday Rand Paul made a stand against big uncontrolled government and specifically against drone strikes on U.S. citizens on American soil and before it was all over he had lit up Twitter world-wide. “Stand with Rand” became the most most Tweeted phrase in many places around the world.
Are the Sequestration spending cuts really as bad as the President wants you to believe? Today we will look at how it works and what it’s really all about.
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The following is a sample from Elliott Wave International’s new 40-page report, The State of the Global Markets — 2013 Edition: The Most Important Investment Report You’ll Read This Year. This article was originally published in the October 2012 issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast. When government gets into the act of speculation, the
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by David Galland, Managing Director Every nation-state has a body of laws woven into the fabric of society. As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has commented on extensively, the stronger the rule of law, the stronger the economy. And by “stronger” laws, I mean laws that are impervious to tampering for personal or political gains.
AIG is suing the Government. At first it seems highly ungrateful for AIG to sue its “White Knight” who swooped in to rescue it in its time of need. But when we look a bit deeper we may find that all is not as it seemed at the time. Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky,
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How the Federal Reserve is Showing Financial Fear Think about one of those movie scenes when the leading man does all he can to defeat the big, bad enemy — punches, kicks, slams, stabs, shoots — but the bad guy just won’t go down. In fact he doesn’t even look fazed. That’s when the protagonist
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Was the U.S. Ratings Downgrade from AAA to AA in 2011 a Problem? Before Standard & Poor’s cut the United States’ credit rating last summer, few economists or politicians believed that the United States could ever lose its gold-standard AAA rating. As a stable, vibrant democracy backed by a strong military, it was inconceivable that
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In the following article Doug Casey addresses the issue of the trend toward less and less freedom in America as the TSA and the Federal Government usurps power reserved for the individual states. He also address “thought crimes,” the Civil War, the Constitution, social and economic freedom, secession, the Bill of Rights, the assassination of US citizens, arbitrary justice, indefinite detention, warrant-less searches,
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We all dream of “Equality”… it is the American ideal, after all “All men are created Equal” but the constitution doesn’t guarantee prosperity and/or happiness only “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” note that it says the PURSUIT of happiness i.e. we are allowed to chase it, but the government is not obligated to provide it for
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In the following article Tony Sagami of Uncommon Wisdom, shows how election results can be accurately predicted based on economic factors. In our Misery Index we show how two simple factors like inflation and unemployment were the basis of the original idea of predicting election results based on economic factors. But today Tony shows how
Is Your Vote for Sale? Read More »
