The Dow was up 9 points on Friday…following a week of big news.
Congress passed a bill permitting the US government to take over the health sector…about 17% of US GDP. Let’s see. The feds don’t have any money, right? They’ve got the biggest deficits ever, and will have to borrow $2.4 trillion this year just to keep the lights on.
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The Great Dollar Standard Turns 40
In the history of money in the world… 40 years really isn’t that much time.
Today we celebrate the 40th birthday of the Great Dollar Standard era, initially by quoting (liberally) from our own Empire of Debt:
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