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Virtually every Western Democratic Government is insolvent.

Virtually every Western democratic government is insolvent.  And governments utilized the same practices as General Motors to reach this point. In GM’s case, poor management was exposed by Honda, Toyota and other foreign competitors.  In government’s case, the same poor management provided by Santa Claus politicians provided the damage. They continuously promised and implemented “bread [...]

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Dracula Government Meets Its Nemesis

There is no greater scam than that being perpetuated by fiat money. It is plausible that the gold market might be manipulated because of its critical importance to the current economic crisis. Gold is to Central Bankers and governments as The Cross was to Dracula. It threatens their existence. Before governments got into the state [...]

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No End to Economic Stupidity

We know there is virtually no business experience amongst the President’s advisors. That has been documented in various places. Yet that could have been inferred  from the number of wrongful policies that have been proposed or implemented. There are so-called economists in the Administration. Larry Summers, for example, is a legend amongst the economic community, [...]

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Crowding Out Your Future

“Crowding out” is an effect claimed to occur when governments run deficits and have to borrow to finance the deficits. It refers to the government using funds via borrowing that otherwise would go to private borrowers. Hence, they are “crowding out” the private borrowers. In normal times, when government deficits are small relative to the [...]

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The Claude Rains Recovery

“No Recovery?” In the best Claude Rains fashion, “I am shocked, shocked!” There is no economic recovery, and there will be no economic recovery this year and probably not next. Yet the media, mainstream economists and the Administration insist we are in the midst of one. Things are definitely getting better, at least according to [...]

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