By keeping all your assets in the country where you live, you commit, ahead of time, to ratify whatever policy your home government might adopt, no matter how objectionable, unreasonable or pernicious that policy happens to be. If the next new mandate is “Register today to get a nail pounded into your head,” you’re already signed up.
[Read more...]The Pentagon Goes Rogue
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Obama Administration deserves credit. What other government ever reached such staggering achievements?
On the home front, as we reported last week, over the last 4 years more people have been declared disabled than have found jobs.
And overseas, an American soldier shipped out to serve in Afghanistan is more likely to be killed by himself than by the enemy. That is, the suicide rate is higher than the rate of combat losses.
[Read more...]The Pentagon Goes Rogue
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Obama Administration deserves credit. What other government ever reached such staggering achievements?
On the home front, as we reported last week, over the last 4 years more people have been declared disabled than have found jobs.
And overseas, an American soldier shipped out to serve in Afghanistan is more likely to be killed by himself than by the enemy. That is, the suicide rate is higher than the rate of combat losses.
[Read more...]How Bailouts Encourage Bad Behavior
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Greece returned to Europe’s center stage this morning…and almost no one was happy about it. Most investors were pretty content when this “Debbie Downer-opoulos” of the European financial markets disappeared behind the curtains for a while.
But Debbie took the stage again Sunday when the left-wing Syriza party gained a surprisingly large number of seats in Parliament. The leftists hope to form a coalition government that would nationalize banks, repeal recent labor reforms and immediately cancel the bailout accords with the European Union and the IMF.
[Read more...]How Bailouts Encourage Bad Behavior
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Greece returned to Europe’s center stage this morning…and almost no one was happy about it. Most investors were pretty content when this “Debbie Downer-opoulos” of the European financial markets disappeared behind the curtains for a while.
But Debbie took the stage again Sunday when the left-wing Syriza party gained a surprisingly large number of seats in Parliament. The leftists hope to form a coalition government that would nationalize banks, repeal recent labor reforms and immediately cancel the bailout accords with the European Union and the IMF.
[Read more...]US Austerity in the Face of a “Fiscal Cliff”
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The financial news yesterday was dominated by alarming reports from Europe.
“Backlash,” said The Financial Times…referring to an “anti-austerity wave” that washed over Europe in weekend voting.
If the FT doesn’t mind mixing metaphors, we don’t either. But our metaphors are a bit different. What has happened is not a backlash but a wake-up call. It comes as voters realize that the placebo medicine — phony, half-hearted austerity measures peddled by the Euro elite — don’t work. They want an elixir with more of a kick to it. That’s why the leftists are gaining so much ground.
[Read more...]US Austerity in the Face of a “Fiscal Cliff”
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The financial news yesterday was dominated by alarming reports from Europe.
“Backlash,” said The Financial Times…referring to an “anti-austerity wave” that washed over Europe in weekend voting.
If the FT doesn’t mind mixing metaphors, we don’t either. But our metaphors are a bit different. What has happened is not a backlash but a wake-up call. It comes as voters realize that the placebo medicine — phony, half-hearted austerity measures peddled by the Euro elite — don’t work. They want an elixir with more of a kick to it. That’s why the leftists are gaining so much ground.
[Read more...]US Austerity in the Face of a “Fiscal Cliff”
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The financial news yesterday was dominated by alarming reports from Europe.
“Backlash,” said The Financial Times…referring to an “anti-austerity wave” that washed over Europe in weekend voting.
If the FT doesn’t mind mixing metaphors, we don’t either. But our metaphors are a bit different. What has happened is not a backlash but a wake-up call. It comes as voters realize that the placebo medicine — phony, half-hearted austerity measures peddled by the Euro elite — don’t work. They want an elixir with more of a kick to it. That’s why the leftists are gaining so much ground.
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Protecting Your Assets from an Out-of-Control Government, Part I
By keeping all your assets in the country where you live, you commit, ahead of time, to ratify whatever policy your home government might adopt, no matter how objectionable, unreasonable or pernicious that policy happens to be. If the next new mandate is “Register today to get a nail pounded into your head,” you’re already signed up.
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