Posted on 12 April 2009. Tags: affordable housing, banking, banks, barack obama, capitalism, China, commander, common stock, communism, community organizer, contractors, Crash Proof, Cuba, debt, deflation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, dollar, economic devlopment, Economics, embargo, federal, federal reserve, financial institutions, free enterprise, freedom, gas prices, general, Goldman Sachs, GS, housing, HUD, inflation, Investing, investors, iraq, lending, leverage, liberty, liquidity, loans, military, monetary policy, money supply, mortgages, nationalization, obama, Obamanomics, peter schiff, Politics, poor, portfolio, predicted financial crash, President Obama, printing, profitability, Ray Odierno, Real Estate, report, Rob Viglione, seasonal demand, sell shares, subprime, survey, Tillby Lundberg, Tim Geithner, treasuries, treasury bonds, Treasury Secretary, U.S. dollar, USD, war in iraq
HUD program turns out to benefit contractors and not the poor…go figure! China cranks up its printing presses-expect global inflation, Peter Schiff (“Dr. Doom”) discusses his book “Crash Proof”, Goldman Sachs plans to sell billions in stock to pay off government aid ASAP, gas prices up 5% in 3 weeks…inflation? Top U.S. general says we’ll be out of Iraq by 2011, and 75% of Americans want to lift Cuba embargo… Continue Reading
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Posted on 03 April 2009. Tags: accountability, Ahmad Tanveer, AIG, alternative economic data, america, American International Group, bail out the people, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Brother, big businesses, bipartisanship, BLS, bonds, bonuses, bottomless pit, budge deficit, budget plan, Bureau of Labor Statistis, bureaucratic, capitalism must end, cato institute, chanting and drumming, collectivism, concentration camps, congress, debt, democrats, Department of Homeland Security, depression, detain immigrants, detention centers, developing world, development, development economics, DHS, economic systems, Economics, Economists' Adventures and misadventures in the tropics, employment obligations, end of American Empire, fair trade, Fannie Mae, fascism, federal reserve, financial regulations, fiscal year, FNM, FRE, Fredd Mac, free enterprise, free trade, G20, Georgia, global New Deal, Global Socialism, globalization, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Brown, Group of 20, harassed by government, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Hugo Chavez, IMF, immigrant deaths, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ineffective, inherited mistakes, insurance, international aid organizations, International Monetary Fund, London, mortgage giants, mortgage market, Nancy Pelosi, new york protest, New York University, New Yorker, NYU, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Pakistani, Pax Americana, Politics, poor countries, President Obama, prisons, protectionism, quadrillion, real unemployment, recession, republicans, retention bonuses, Rob Viglione, Russia, secondary market, Senate, ShadowStats, socialism, spending bill, statistics, stimulus spending, summit, The Elusive Quest for Growth, The White Man's Burden, third world, Tim Geithner, trade credits, treasuries, trillion, troop withdrawals, unemployment, united states, unprecedented spending, utopia, Utopian aid plans, Venezuela, wasteful, why doesn't aid work, Why the West's Efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, William Easterly, World Bank, world leaders
Government detention camps cover up deaths-does America have a human rights problem? Congress passes unprecedented $3.6 trillion budget with $1.2 trillion deficit, official unemployment rates his 8.5%-some economists claiming they are really upwards of 20%, government mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie to pay $159 billion in new bonuses, Obama calls end to ‘Pax Americana’, world leaders pledge $1.1 trillion to IMF, Russia refuses to remove troops from Georgia, NY protesters call for government to ‘Bail out the People’, Hugo Chavez declares that ‘Capitalism must end,’ and Treasuries drop with announcement of next week’s $59 billion note issue and Goldman Sachs estimate that government will need to borrow another $3.25 trillion this year… Continue Reading
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Posted on 16 March 2009. Tags: agricultural, AIG, america, American International Group, bailouts, barack obama, Barclay's, Barney Frank, Bernard Madoff, bonuses, bridges, capitalism, China, Chinese, Commerce, commercial trucking project, competitive, confiscate, congress, consumption, corporate welfare, counterparties, credit markets, Deutsche Bank, domestic investment, economic downturn, Economics, exports, fair trade, federal aid, federal court, federal prosecutors, fiscal policy, forfeiture, free enterprise, free trade, freedom, global trade, globalization, Goldman Sachs, GS, highways, House of Representatives, imports, industrial, infrastructure, Merrill Lynch, Mexico, migrant workers, obama, Politics, ports, President Obama, proscription, protectionism, R&D, reciprocal trade war, research and development, roads, Rob Viglione, Ruth Madoff, small businesses, small-business loans, socialism, socialism for the rich, Societe Generale, sovereign wealth fund, stimulus package, tariffs, trade war, Treasury Department, united states, victims, welfare, White House
The trade wars begin-Mexico raises tariffs on U.S. exports in retaliation of truck project cancellation, Obama angry at A.I.G. over bonuses-tries to cut them, small businesses to be next bailout beneficiaries, government tries to track down and confiscate Madoff assets-who will keep them? China uses global downturn to boost competitive advantages, Jon Stewart rips apart Jim Cramer in debate on poor financial reporting…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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