Posted on 18 June 2010. Tags: agencies, american peasants, austrian economic theory, austrian economics, Big Brother, blog economics, blog political, blog politics, blog real estate, blogging political, blogging real estate, bubble real estate, buyer real estate, buying real estate, capital, capital structure, capitalism, conspiracy theory, crash, debt, debt capital, deflation, department housing urban, Department of Housing and Urban Development, depression, diluting currency, dollar, Economics, economics blog, economics blogging, economics real estate, equity, equity capital, Fannie Mae, federal agencies, federal housing administration, federal national mortgage association, federal reserve, federal reserve flow of funds, feudalism, fha, financing real estate, fiscal policy, FNM, Freddie Mac, government, government policy, great recession, holc, homeowner society, homeowners, homeowners loan corporation, homes, housing, housing bubble, housing bubble crash, housing policy, housing politics, housing recession, HUD, hyperinflation, inflation, institutions, interest rates mortgage, liquidity, monetary policy, mortgage, mortgage interest rates, mortgage rates, mortgages, ownership society, peasants, policy, policy housing, political, political blog, political blogging, political policy, Politics, politics blog, property, public institutions, quantitative easing, rates mortgage, Real Estate, real estate blog, real estate blogging, real estate bubble, real estate bubble crash, real estate buyers, real estate buying, real estate economics, real estate financing, real estate policies, real estate policy, real property, Road to Serfdom, serfdom, serfdom road, theory conspiracy, transfer ownership, U.S. dollar, urban housing, USD
The capital structure of US real estate assets has been in a long process of change. By subsidizing real estate and making mortgage debt artificially cheaper than equity capital, the US government has been effectively transferring real estate ownership from individuals to lending institutions and the Federal Reserve. Here’s how this game has been unfolding, and a warning to Americans that they will one day wake up in a country where most people live as feudalistic peasants, beholden to their banking and political overlords. Continue Reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Real Estate
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
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