Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: agriculture, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Antarctica, asset bubbles, balance sheet, barack obama, Big Brother, Bill of Rights, bond maturity, bonds, budget deficit, bureaucracy, cap and trade, capital expenditures, capitalism, commodities, congress, Constitution, consumer spending, courts, currency, cut spending, DBA, DBC, debt, deflation, democracy, dependence, diversification, dividends, dollar, DOW, Economics, elections, electricity costs, energy, equities, Fannie Mae, federal reserve, federal spending, financial industry, financial regulations, fiscal policy, fixed rate debt, FNM, FRE, Freddie Mac, free enterprise, free society, GLD, gold, GSG, Health Care, hedge, housing boom, housing bust, housing is a right, inflation, interest rates, international, Investing, irrational exuberance, join a militia, junk loans, labor laws, labor market, laws, leverage, life savings, Medicaid, Medicare, military, militia, monetary policy, money supply, mortgage, nanny state, NASDAQ, national debt, natural gas, oil, police state, Politics, portfolio, portfolio management, precious metals, President Obama, public debt, quantitative easing, question assumptions, Real Estate, regulate carbon emissions, regulations, retained earnings, right to bear arms, Rob Viglione, rolling dice, S&P500, savings rate, second amendment, short stocks, short the market, short-term debt, silver, SLV, social security, socialism, stagflation, stimulus, stock market, subprime debt, TARP, Tim Geithner, TIP, Treasury, treasury inflation protected securities, trust government, union, USD, USO, velocity of money, welfare, WIP, yields
We are moving closer towards a political economy every day. Every dollar borrowed, taxed, printed, and spent by government really comes from the private sector. Trillions of dollars of national resources are being allocated by politicians and bureaucrats towards things they claim will benefit our economy. Congress just passed a $3.6 trillion budget ($1.2 trillion in deficit), and combined the Federal Reserve and Treasury have dumped $13 trillion into the economy in the last 16 months. What we must all ask ourselves right now is whether or not we trust government with our money? Continue Reading
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Posted on 08 March 2009. Tags: Admiral Michael Mullen, Afghanistan, bailout program, bailouts, banking, bankruptcy, banks, banks to fail, barack obama, Bloomberg, Camden Fine, CEO, Chairman, Chapter 11, Chrysler, close them down, cocaine, community banks, congress, consequences of war on drugs, Department of Defense, DoD, drug cartels, drug prohibition, ecstasy, FDIC, federal agents, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, firearms, gang violence, General Motors, high-calibur handguns, homicides, if they're dead they ought to be buried, Independent Community Bankers of America, iraq, john mccain, Joint Chiefs of Staff, lawlessness, legalize drugs, Mexico, Minnesota, moderate elements of Taliban, outreach to Taliban, Palo Alto, perpetual war, police state, president, President Obama, reduce troop levels, renters, republicans, Richard Shelby, Rob Viglione, Sanfrancisco Bay Area, savers, semi-automatic rifles, Senate, Senator, subprime loans, Sunni militias, Taliban, taliban gang, taxpayers, TCF Financial Corp., violence, violence in Mexico, wall street, War on Drugs, William Cooper
GOP officials say banks and autos should fail, 12,000 troops to leave Iraq in 6 months, Obama ponders outreach to Taliban, U.S. ponders troops commitments to fight drug cartels in Mexico, 30 ‘Taliban Gang’ members arrested in Bay Area, banks that shunned bailout question why they’re paying for their competitors’ mistakes? Just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: $900 million to Palestinians, adults behind bars, Afghanistan, Australia, bank Nationalists, benchmark rate, broadband internet, budget, budget growth, Bush administration, Bush memo, business expense, central bank, congress, Constitution, criminal, criminal correction, drug prohibition, economist, Fannie Mae, financial industry, Freddie Mac, free market libertarian, fuzzy math, Gaza, Governor Glenn Stevens, Hamas, Harvard, Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, homeowner bailout a mistake, honoraria, income tax, interest rates, iraq, Jeffrey A. Miron, Mavericks, Mayor, Medicare, mortgage industry, nationalization, NBA tickets, obama, phantom costs, police state, president bush, President Obama, prison spending, prison state, rendition powers, Rob Viglione, Ron Kirk, Senate Finance Committee, socialism, Socialist, Sweden, tax evasion, temporary nationalization turns permanent, terrorists, Texas, torture, U.S. trade representative, understate costs, unfettered, war funding, War on Drugs, war on terrorism, White House
White House budget found to have “fuzzy math” on war estimates, new role for federal government to provide broadband Internet, U.S. gives Palestinians $900 million, Harvard economist says bailing out homeowners is a mistake, 4th Obama appointee found evading taxes, bank Nationalists look to Sweden, temporary nationalization of mortgage industry now permanent, 1 in 31 adults behind bars in U.S., Australia leaves benchmark rate unchanged, and Bush memos claim unfettered rendition powers…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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