Economic Recovery Education

Feelings…
Whoa whoa whoa…feelings…

— Morris Albert

Our plane got delayed. This left us in a small waiting room for longer than we wanted to be there. The two large TV screens were inescapable.

Who watches this stuff? Poor schmucks.

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Economic Recovery Education

Feelings…
Whoa whoa whoa…feelings…

— Morris Albert

Our plane got delayed. This left us in a small waiting room for longer than we wanted to be there. The two large TV screens were inescapable.

Who watches this stuff? Poor schmucks.

[Read more...]

Economic Recovery Education

Feelings…
Whoa whoa whoa…feelings…

— Morris Albert

Our plane got delayed. This left us in a small waiting room for longer than we wanted to be there. The two large TV screens were inescapable.

Who watches this stuff? Poor schmucks.

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Devil Deals

Occasionally, when we’ve had too much to drink, we lull ourselves to sleep with the notion that someone like Ron Paul might succeed. Maybe America won’t become a police state after all. Maybe it will abandon its empire and its imperial death-wish before it’s too late. Maybe it will cut its budget and save the dollar.

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Ron Paul: “This QE Stuff Doesn’t Work”

 

If he isn’t Ben Bernanke’s worst nightmare, I don’t know who is. Here’s another great clip by Presidential-candidate Ron Paul on the role of the Federal Reserve.

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The US Empire: A Tragic Comedy in Three Acts

What a delight it is to have an empire!

Do the Swiss get to send out drones to kill people they don’t know in countries they’ve never been? No! The poor yodelers go around with long faces and visit their shrinks. Americans have troops in 170 countries. Where are the Swiss? Only in Switzerland and the Vatican. Alas, they will never know the joys of nation building and people murdering.

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See Mainstream Media Ridiculed for Refusing to Acknowledge Ron Paul

In case you’ve somehow missed it – which is easy enough to do given the explicit lack of coverage — Dr. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) second-place finish at the Ames Straw Poll seems to have been practically blacked out by mainstream media. At least Jon Stewart bothers to take great comedic pleasure in calling reporters to task for ignoring his candidacy.

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“Super Congress” is Most Disturbing Component of the Debt Deal

As The Daily Reckoning’s Addison Wiggin pointed out in Monday’s DR, the debt deal has no teeth. “The $2.5 trillion in spending cuts are, in the immutable logic of Washington, not cutbacks at all… but limits to the planned rate of spending increases,” and worse, “…they don’t kick in until 2013. At that time, a new Congress will be in place, unbound by the promises of the current one.”

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Ron Paul on the Danger of Political and Social Upheaval

It could be just the impression of this one lonely editor, but it seems that ever since Dr. Ron Paul announced his focused quest for the presidency he’s been especially fiery in delivering his message. A recent clip shows Dr. Paul directly addressing how a time of failing confidence in the dollar is rapidly approaching and what consequences of that are likely:

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