Writes Brian Doherty : Many aspects of America’s future are at risk as politicians and public intellectuals respond to the current economic crisis. The politicians are shaping how (far too much of) Americans’ money, resources, and precious bodily fluids will be expended, both now and in the very far future. Beyond the (completely insane) spending
The Clearing House Association says that the Fed has to keep its business under wraps else negative rumors lead to runs. Well, it didn’t say runs; it only alludes to unnameable “negative
Thomas Dorman, MD, of the Paracelsus Clinic in Federal Way, Washington, died unexpectedly on Tuesday. He was 72. An international man and American patriot, Tom was born in British Kenya, where his father was a coffee merchant, who in WWII helped supply travel documents for Jews escaping the National Socialists. When Jomo Kenyatta came to power,
Writes Morgan Reynolds: “We no longer hear the Wall Street cliché “Don’t fight the Fed,” which suggests a new song to me for the Obama-Biden administration to warble next year to the music of “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four . Note that “Robbin’ people with a SIX gun” is the original line–no change needed.” WE FOUGHT THE MARKET The
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