Posted on 12 July 2009. Tags: Big Brother, civil disobedience, compensation, congress, consequences, consumers, corporate taxes, currency debasement, deficit spending, depession, domestic, Economics, effective tax burden, embedded taxes, employee, entitlements, excise taxes, fair tax, federal, federal reserve, feudalism, fixed income, foreign, freedom, frguality, gold, government spending, income taxes, inflation, inflation risk, inflation tax, international socialism, labor market, labor productivity, liberty, lifestyle, local, marginal productivity, Medicare, monetary policy, monetizing debt, money supply, net wealth transfer, payroll taxes, philosophical implications, Politics, progressive taxation, property taxes, purchasing power, recession, regulations, regulatory burden, Retirement, revolt, Rob Viglione, sales tax, Savings, securities, serfdom, shareholders, slavery, social security, socialism, southern california, speculation, state, stimulus, tariffs, taxation, transfer taxes, treasuries, Treasury, U.S. dollar, Uncle Sam, unemployment, USD, wages
This article is dedicated to the growing segment of American society that is awakening to the ideas that we are increasingly overworked and overtaxed. My goal is to determine an effective tax burden on the average middle-class American. I will leave it to the reader to judge relative severity of the burden as measured against associated “benefits” to which he is “entitled” from the system. Continue Reading
Posted in Economics, Featured, Personal Finance, Politics
Posted on 13 April 2009. Tags: Al Pacino, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, auto manufacturers, bailout, banking, banks, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Brother, bonds, borrow, budget deficit, capital, capitalism, Chairman, China, congress, consequences, consumer-backed securities, contraction, Credit, current account, debt, debt deflation, debt mania, declining rates, decomposing inflation, deflation, Detroit, Devil's Advocate, economic growth, economic output, Economics, Employment, exports, Fed, federal reserve, financial system, free enterprise, free trade, general price level, globalization, government, Great Unwinding, hedge fund bailout, Hoisington, House of Representatives, household worth, imports, inflation, institutions, interest rates, Investment management company, Japan, long-term interest rates, M1, M2, M3, Milton Friedman, money creation, money equation, money supply, mortgage bailout, Net Worth, Obamanomics, political capital, Politics, President Obama, prices, print money, printing presses, private capital, Real Estate, Rob Viglione, Senate, sin, socialism, spend, stock market, TARP, tax the rich, taxation, taxes, trade, treasuries, unemployment, vanity, velocity of money, wealth destruction
There are two colossal events occurring in the world right now: Private credit and wealth is being destroyed, and in its place a good deal of money is being created. Much is taking place behind the scenes, driving this epic showdown between natural forces pushing for a return to sustainable equilibrium pitted against the full arsenal of man’s capability to resist. Just as the fog of war can obscure a battlefield until the end, the outcome of this struggle is far from clear. Nonetheless, there are some telling events to note, signs for which to watch, and consequences to mull. Continue Reading
Posted in Economics, Investing, Politics
Posted on 18 March 2009. Tags: AIG, American International Group, arms race, Baluchistan, barack obama, Barney Frank, Ben Bernanke, bonuses, Bush administration, CEO, Chairman, cocaine, Cold War, congress, consequences, Consumer Price Index, consumer prices, control, CPI, Czech Republic, deflationary spiral, democrat, drug cartels, drug prohibition, Economics, Edward Liddy, executive bonuses, expand war into Pakistan, Fed, federal government, federal reserve, financial inquisition, financial institutions, Gary Ackerman, government ownership, guerrillas, House of Representatives, inflation, inquisition, invading Pakistan, lawsuit to recover bonuses, legal obligation, MDA, Mexico, missile defense shield, missile treaties, money supply, nationalization, New York, Obama wants control, output, Pakistan, Peru, Politics, President Obama, rearming, rebellion, rebels, regulation, Rob Viglione, Russia, socialism, Taliban, The Shining Path, velocity of money, War on Drugs
Government says government owns AIG, U.S. weighs invasion of Pakistan to fight Taliban, cocaine trade funds Peruvian rebellion, consumer prices jump more than expected-what happened to deflation? Obama wants more control of financial institutions to ‘protect taxpayers,’ White House readying to join war against Mexican drug cartels, Czechs end U.S. missile treaties amidst ‘large-scale’ Russian rearming…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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