Category Archives: Political Economy

How Does America Compare to Other Repressive Regimes?

Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of “free,” but the United States [...]

Senator Decries Internet Protest

Current DC lobbyist (aka corporate rent-seeker) and former Senator Chris Dodd (Corporatist, CT), says that it’s an “abuse of power” for websites to protest congressional abuse of power.

Desperate Krugman Attacks Ron Paul

According to inflationist Krugman… Unfortunately, Paul has maintained his consistency by ignoring reality, clinging to his ideology even as the facts have demonstrated that ideology’s wrongness. And, even more unfortunately, Paulist ideology now dominates a Republican Party that used to know better. Read more Points of Clarification: 1) Krugman says “the Federal Reserve doesn’t actually [...]

Predicting the Gold Price

$251 – .18 * S&P + .00056 * Monetary Base in millions $251 – .18 * $1,195 + .00056 * $2,629,880M Predicted Gold Price = $1509 Actual Gold Price = $1725 (as of 11/29) What the model is suggesting is that the gold price has priced in about $500B in QE3. But what if QE3 [...]

S 1253 To Allow Military to Detain U.S. Civilians

S 1253 Text The proposed Act and the offending sections 1031 and 1032 seem to be restricted to al-Qaeda and affiliates, but upon further reading, an interesting override provision jumps out… 1032 Section 4: (4) WAIVER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY- The Secretary of Defense may, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director of [...]

Climate Change Alarmism…RIP

More data manipulation and lying from the AGW alarmist lobby. Watts Up With that …and the irrepressible Lord Monckton! Some highlights: 33:11 “Scientists” got rid of the mediaeval warm period and “processed” the data to get the famous “hockey stick”. 57:00 Graph showing CO2 levels 20 times higher than today 550M years ago, yet temperatures [...]

Humanity After the Collapse

Institutions like governments, banking cartels, and union guilds are stupid, irrational, thieving and destructive. They simply cannot resist the urge to loot and pillage until they’ve destroyed the society they operate in. Individuals, however, are intelligent, rational, resourceful and cooperative. When the various assortment of institutional crime syndicates debauch the money and bankrupt the government, [...]

A Lone Voice of European Sanity

The Infamous PNAC (9/11 as Pearl Harbor) Document

Here’s a Reader’s Digest version of The Project For The New American Century’s prophetic document that mentions a “new Pearl Harbor” as a necessary event to hasten the transformation of America’s military strategy. The document is entitled: REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES (herein referred to as “RAD” for short) Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century [...]

State Media Pimps the Jobs Czar

Obama’s crony-capitalist shill, Jeff Immelt, CEO of the GE that received $140 Billion in bailout bux and pays no taxes has been all over the state-run media as of late. 60 Minutes, 10/9/11 Fox, 10/8/11 HuffPo, 10/11 CNBC, 10/6/11 Bloomberg, 10/11/11 Reuters, 10/7/11 Funny how all this press for Obama’s Jobs Czar coincides with Obama’s [...]

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